Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lanyards Are Trendy Corporate Gifts

By Jamie Brown

Companies spend a significant proportion of their money for promotional campaigns. They use several tools and tactics to make people identify with the brand and create a recall in their minds. Irrespective of the kind of merchandising that a company uses, the main objective always is to form a lasting impression on prospective customers. Using lanyards is one of the ways of achieving this.

One of the most well known and efficient forms of marketing at business events has been T-shirts printed with the name of the company. However, lanyards, the new entry in the marketing toolkit is fast catching up. They attract a lot of attention from potential customers, which gives visibility to the business' logo and tagline, and that is why their use is increasing.

If used properly, lanyards prove to be very effective in corporate events such as industry exhibitions and seminars. They can be distributed among the people who are participating in the event. By printing the name and year of the event on the lanyard, along with the company's symbol, you can make it serve the additional objective of a souvenir.

Lanyards do not cost much to the organization and they are lesser expensive than having t-shirts made for the occasion. They generate a significant brand recall and form a positive impression of the business on prospective customers.

Lanyards, apart from being highly inexpensive and impactful, also have other benefits as marketing items. Lanyard can be printed with attractive colours, which helps in drawing people's attention towards them. They can be used for other things like ID card holders, which means that their utility value is high. In addition, people always find some innovative use for a lanyard, and since it stays close to them, it is able to continuously remind them about your company.

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