The cheapest item in your charity's merch order is usually the most expensive thing you'll buy all year. Sounds backwards. But we decorate and ship promotional products every week for Australian non-profits, and we see the same pattern over and...
Your best client peels the ribbon off a matte black box, lifts the lid, and finds a branded ceramic mug wrapped in tissue printed with your logo, a block of local chocolate, and a handwritten card. She photographs it before...
Run the maths on a $12 branded drink bottle used three times a week for a year and you land on roughly 780 face-to-face impressions per bottle, at about 1.5 cents each. By year two, that same bottle has dragged...
The most effective branded keychain in Australia isn't the heavy metal one that feels expensive in your hand. It's the see-through one. Conventional promo wisdom says weight equals quality, and quality equals brand impact. Acrylic keychains quietly disprove that every...
Full-time Australian teachers consistently report working well over 50 hours a week during term time, according to the Australian Teacher Workforce Data collection. That number matters when your school is choosing staff appreciation merch, because a person running on that...
A branded glass bottle has a shorter promotional lifespan than the campaign it was printed for. Hand out 200 of them and a decent slice will chip, crack or meet a tiled floor before your logo has earned its keep....
It's 8am at a Saturday farmers market in regional Victoria. A council engagement officer sets up a trestle table for a water-saving campaign, and behind her sits a box of branded reusable bottles. She knows something most private sector marketers...
The box lands at the netball club on a Thursday afternoon. Two hundred pairs of custom socks, club colours spot on, logo knitted into the cuff. The committee is stoked until Saturday morning, when half the junior squad slides across...
The coolest giveaway at the expo is usually the first one in the hotel bin. Not the boring one. The cool one. The light-up spinning thing, the desk gadget with no obvious purpose, the novelty item that got a genuine...
Day two of a home and lifestyle expo on the Gold Coast. A marketing coordinator has 300 branded cooler bags on the stand, each loaded with a cold drink and a product flyer. By 2pm a visitor is back at...
Acquiring a new customer is widely estimated to cost five to seven times more than keeping one you already have. The exact multiple gets argued about in marketing circles and it shifts by industry, but nobody disputes the direction. Winning...
The cheapest promotional item at your fundraiser is often the most expensive thing you'll order all year. A carton of plastic trinkets looks like a bargain on the invoice, then most of it goes straight from the showbag to the...
