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pabaker66 · #1 04-13-2012, 11:07 AM

What if any promotional item do you give to companies when you are out selling jobs? How do you determin who gets them?

Thanks for your help

trqjnky · #2 04-13-2012, 11:39 AM

i give everyone a can of fluid film and a 100 dollar gift card to a local strip club. works everytime.

grandview · #3 04-13-2012, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by trqjnky

i give everyone a can of fluid film and a 100 dollar gift card to a local strip club. works everytime.

I need the contract signed now,so I send the stripper there!

coldcoffee · #4 04-13-2012, 12:14 PM

Our local big shot started handing out 5 gal. buckets of salt this year (for DIY sidewalks) to all area businesses of interest...buckets are labeled w/ contact info for free refills. "Call this # when empty"...or something like that.

pabaker66 · #5 04-13-2012, 12:33 PM

Does that local big shot start with a "R". just wondering

coldcoffee · #6 04-13-2012, 12:49 PM

Yup.......

pabaker66 · #7 04-13-2012, 01:54 PM

I have see some of those blue buckets around at places...

grandview · #8 04-13-2012, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by coldcoffee

Our local big shot started handing out 5 gal. buckets of salt this year (for DIY sidewalks) to all area businesses of interest...buckets are labeled w/ contact info for free refills. "Call this # when empty"...or something like that.

Should of had one in front of your place, then call him and say you need a 30 ton refill.

MIDTOWNPC · #9 04-13-2012, 02:41 PM

I deliver flowers around Easter time as its end of the season
I find it keeps the cheques flowing. Guys
Might not like them out the secretaries who get the payments ready do.

grandview · #10 04-13-2012, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MIDTOWNPC

I deliver flowers around Easter time as its end of the season
I find it keeps the cheques flowing. Guys
Might not like them out the secretaries who get the payments ready do.

And you personally deliver the flowers to the hot secretaries

coldcoffee · #11 04-13-2012, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by grandview

Should of had one in front of your place, then call him and say you need a 30 ton refill.

I'm sure he'd be more than happy to deliver me a load of something...but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be salt.

dc240nt · #12 04-14-2012, 12:08 PM

I give all my residential customers a fridge magnet. Those things have payed for themselves a thousand times over. Easy and cheap to make, and better then a business card that just gets lost. Let them add it to the fridge and it will be there whenever they need to call you, or better yet, when giving your number to a friend. I love them and will not go without. Every customer gets one.

MIDTOWNPC · #13 04-14-2012, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by grandview

And you personally deliver the flowers to the hot secretaries

someone has to do the hard work

grandview · #14 04-14-2012, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MIDTOWNPC

someone has to do the hard work

Wouldn't that be her job?

pabaker66 · #15 05-15-2012, 09:10 PM

bump for any new ideas?

thelettuceman · #16 05-17-2012, 10:55 PM

I give these out and ask customers to open my website

basher · #17 05-18-2012, 05:09 AM

We give out, pens, flying discs (Frisbees,) knit caps, billed hats, sweatshirts, bottle openers, Fluid Film and tee shirts.

Some are given to customers with purchases, some are just handed out at trade shows, parades or over the counter. People LOVE free stuff.