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Topic: Advertising/PR

Need A Quick Idea For A Thank You Gift.

Posted by Anonymous on 10/15/2004 at 2:45 PM ET 100 Points
We send out many shipments per day and would like to include a cost effective gift to go along with our clients printed orders. We used to give out little bags of M&M's before my company Merged to become The Marsid-M&M Group. A few clients have actually said they miss it. Though I do not feel a few bags of candy will be enough. I'm looking for a idea's like a little toy truck with a clear cargo container in the back, and inside would be the little bags of candy. The outside might say, Marsid-M&M Express to play on the delivery. I need idea's similar to this. to give you an idea of what we do you can visit our website mmprint.com I like the candy part of it, though I think the presentation needs some work.

Any help would be appreciated,

Cliff
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  • Posted by SteveByrneMarketing on 10/15/2004 at 5:28 PM Member
    General agreement to stay with the M&M's. Did you know about the new "Thank You" blend?

    https://shop.mms.com/store/product_detail.asp?cid=1%7C51&item_no=MYSP+08Z+T...

    best of luck,

    - Steve
  • Posted by SteveByrneMarketing on 10/15/2004 at 5:30 PM Member
    or custom printed --

    https://shop.mms.com/customized/printing/step1.asp


  • Posted by darcy.moen on 10/16/2004 at 12:28 AM Member
    I used to use chocolates wrapped with custom printed wrappers. I was using Roundtree's After Eight chocolate mint patties wrapped with our customized wrapper that said "Our customers are worth a mint". Eventually, out chocolate mints expanded into a more varied affair.

    My Sister was working as a Food Service Representative. The company she worked for represented 5,000 different products. Every week, she would receive envelopes filled with coupns that she was supposed to give away while she was in the grocery stores. There was so much, she couldn't give it away fast enough. Looking over the coupons, I noticed they were for one free jar of peanut butter, free roll of this, a tub of that. FREE! Not buy one get one, or two bits off here, five cents off there. FREE!

    I told my sister I'd help her distribute these coupons and I began assembling "goodie bags" filled with freebies. I would hand them out with my customers dry cleaning orders when they picked them up (we were located 200 ft away from a major grocery store).

    It was amazing to see how excited folks became over a bag of goodies. Customers would rave about how they could score 15.00 worth of free groceries picking up their husband's shirts (week's worth of shirts laundered was about ten bucks).

    The grocery store could care less, they were moving products and getting reimbursed, my sister could finally keep up to the paperwork and get the products publicized, and I looked like a hero to my customers.

    So, what could your customers (non-competing ones) give you to include in your boxes? Folks love to shop, businesses love to have exposure. If they have smaples they want handed out, what better way? Everybody wins.

    Just my two cents worth. Hope it helps you.

    Darcy Moen (Customer Loyalty Network)
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