Showing posts with label Customers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Customers. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Promotional Food Gifts For Last Minute Customers


Promotional holiday food gifts are the number 1 holiday gift item that businesses hand out.

Promotional gift baskets are a great way to offer custom logo messages of thanks to a customer or employee. Promotional food items include logo printed candy, chocolate, candy jars, popcorn, pretzel and cookie tins. These printed food gift baskets and corporate gift foods can be drop shipped to your customers. Don't forget to have us imprint a logo chocolate bar or other logo candy.

Drop off a custom and promotional printed candy jars or personalized glass candy jars to your customer's office and every time you stop in, refill it with candy or chocolate. Think of how many people will see your logo message on custom logo apothecary jars.

Custom printed gourmet chocolate gifts like the personalized and promotional cheese baskets and logo printed cheese gift sets are a perfect addition to any party. There are even promotional food and cheese gift packages that include logo branded cutting boards.

Consider these personalized gourmet gift sets, promotional and personalized chocolate gifts and other custom logo holiday gift food baskets. Looking for honest-to-goodness Honey Roasted Peanuts originally found at America's ballparks? Why not give out promotional peanuts and jumbo cashews, Pecan Turtles, English Butter Toffee, Chocolate Covered Almonds, and more. Do you know that there are logoed wooden boxes where the message is fire-branded into the wooden box. You can consider a beautiful logo printed ribbon tied around a gourmet gift box.

Express your appreciation to customers and impress new and prospective customers with custom logo and promotional chocolate candy gifts and other personalized chocolate candy. Consider a 2 pound custom printed chocolate bars that even come with a hammer so the entire office can share.

Promotional cookie tins are great food gifts. holiday cookie tins and Christmas cookie tins make for a great gift when you need to say thank you to an entire office.

Custom imprinted wrappers on chocolate bars and granola bars can be printed with a custom design or message or event theme.

Logo printed plastic airtight and promotional acrylic containers are some of the personalized food containers and popcorn containers can be used by students, workers who bring lunch and on trips. These promotional food containers be used constantly and kept for years thus promoting your company.

Personalized holiday gift food baskets and other custom logo gourmet gift baskets are the perfect office gift when you have many people to please. Choose from the many promotional corporate gift food baskets, including the Deluxe Office Party Basket, the Snowflake Basket, the Copper Beverage Tub or Celebration Basket.

There are many promotional food gift options like the custom logo gourmet food gift towers and other personalized gift baskets. Choose from the Five Star Tower, Gold Rush Tower, Snowflake Tower, Snowman and other Food Gift Tower options.

There are also hand-crafted and hand-painted promotional wooden food gift trucks, delivery vans an ambulance, classic 18 wheeler, tank truck and more. Each can be personalized truck is filled with your choice of chocolate covered almonds, extra fancy jumbo cashews. Your custom logo information is imprinted onto the side of each truck.

When you need a special thank-you gift, like frame gifts or other promotional product food gifts, why not look at Food Gift Desk Items or post-it note holders packaged with chocolate covered almonds in a beautiful gift box. Have you seen our desktop jelly belly jelly bean dispensers or our Hardwood Pen and Pencil Cups filled with fancy jumbo cashews or our other desktop food gift items?

These custom logo printed spiral sliced and holiday gourmet hams and smoked turkeys each come with a walnut and maple cutting board that has your logo fire branded into the wood. So long after the food has been eaten, the cutting stays with the recipient. Consider drop shipping these promotional holiday foods to your customers each with personalized letters.

Promotional and personalized microwave popcorn bags are a great draw for trade show booths. When you're popping with great ideas, hand out a custom printed microwave popcorn bags.

Promotional popcorn gift tins are great holiday food gifts when you need to say thank you to an entire office.

Promotional pretzel tins and personalized food tins are great food gifts when you need to say thank you to an entire office.




John Gallagher, CAS, promotional products consultant and distributor for The Promo Shop, ltd has helped businesses with identity and recognition through promotional food gifts since 1997.




Sunday, January 22, 2012

Gourmet Food Store Reaches New Customers Through Cultural Outreach


Thirty years ago Dearborn, Michigan, was as white as any town could be. Its ethnic diversity was under one percent. Three decades of immigration has changed that and today the City of Dearborn is one of the most diverse in all of Michigan. Unfortunately some merchants have not been able to bridge the cultural divide. Middle-Easterners represent the fastest growing segment of Dearborn's growth. The once English-only landscape of their downtown is now dominated by Arabic signage and motifs with the Arab-American National Museum at its heart. A nationally franchised chain of gourmet food stores had caught the eye of a longtime resident. She reviewed operations of the chain throughout southeastern Michigan and saw the economic indicators were ideal for a store in Dearborn. Anticipated success was elusive as the business was unable to attract customers. Contemplating closing the shop completely she turned to a cultural consultant for help. Studying the community and the store it was quite evident to the cultural experts that the store needed to make some immediate and drastic changes if it would survive.

Modifications

This gourmet food store was the style where patrons would come into the store and prepare gourmet meals using the best ingredients. The store's problems included Signage, Menu assortment, Cleaning procedures, Background music, and Ingredients. In short, almost every aspect of the store needed some form of change! Franchisers are very reluctant to allow a single outlet to stray from the corporate model in anyway. Because of this it was important to work closely with both franchiser and franchisee to develop changes aligned with corporate philosophy and community needs. International franchiser McDonald's had already allowed for changes in the local menu. The changes were very subtle but significant enough to spell success for the hamburger fryer. Less significant were the changes made by the family dining chain Ram's Horn Restaurants. Their Dearborn outlet thrived with its supplemental menu loaded with special cuts of meat and an understanding of Middle-Eastern food handling norms. Fortunately the gourmet food franchiser realized the need for the changes and allowed the local to "test" the new concept.

A marketing campaign to the adjoining neighborhoods that was welcoming to the Arabic culture resulted in new business.

Success followed as the store turned the corner from red to black ink.




Author Rick Weaver is President of Max Impact Corporation, a leadership and strategy development company. He offers more anecdotal leadership lessons in his book, "Life's Leadership Lessons", a collection of 53 anecdotes about his life. Rick reveals how the people, events, and things he has encountered in his life taught him valuable leadership lessons. The book is available in paperback, e-book, or a Kindle download. For more information or to download the first chapter to preview, visit: "Life's Leadership Lessons".