Hi Ozi,
Here are my thoughts regarding SWAG items.
Bottle Opener:
I think that this is a great idea so long as we are getting the magnetic one! I think that it would be good advertising as people could put it on their fridge in res, or at home and constantly be seeing it. It would be great if Campus Events would cross promote on this with us. I know that Al had been the one to give us the idea, so maybe he is interested. The price for the magnetic bottle opener was for 500 of them.
$1.33 x 500 + $55.00= $720.00
If we were to split this with Campus events then it would be cost effective and beneficial for us.
Phone Wallets:
Hopefully Mark can make a final decision in regards to these phone wallets on Friday and let us know by Monday. I would like to get these regardless of whether or not he would like to cross promote with us. If he chooses to do so, I think that we should get a larger quantity and do give aways during the football season as well as other sporting events (if we have much to do with them).
I can not see the email with the prices of these phone cases but I remember writing the amount in a saved draft of the purchase order form! It may be saved onto the desk top or it is saved under our file on the shared drive.
Lip Balm:
Once again, I would like to proceed with this SWAG item regardless of cross promotions. If someone (1280, or Mark) would like to cross promote that would be awesome but if I recall correctly, theses were fairly cheap!
Hand Sanitizer:
This item is also fairly cheap. We could get the pricing and then ask WW coordinators or Mike Wooder if he would like to cross promote somewhere on this or if he knows anyone who would like to. I think that this compliments our lip balm quite well. We might as well get the 1.0oz bottle as it is only $0.10 more than the bottle half its size. This will also depend on how much we have left in our budget for promo.
Buttons:
The buttons are a SWAG item that I think we should keep solely to ourselves. They are inexpensive and small so we could really only fit our logo on them! I say keep it simple for this, if we are doing navy as our themed colour, make the buttons navy with white print so it stands out! Make the logo as large and as clear as possible for the size of the button. We should get a large quantity of these. 1000 or more?
If 1280 isn't interested in the thunder sticks I think we should hold off, also depending on our budget even if they are interested we might have to let that one go. Like Mark had said, they do not have lasting value so are fairly useless for continuous promoting.
-What about the napkin wraps? are we still on for those?
ReplyDelete-We are totally scrapping thundersticks. Beach ball is a more likely option and we can cross promote with 43 other depts because of how the sides of the ball are divided.
-buttons we are def doing on our own.
-hand sanitizer too i think we should do on our own because its like a courtesy gift and there is not even a lot of space on the front label part. I'll ask Michelle if she has any sanitizers with the clip for like bags on the cap.
-I hope aths n rec does the lip balm and phone wallet with us if not i think we should stick with the lip balm and ask 1280 or do by ourselves. The phone wallet will be depending on our budget.
-Debbie prefers the key ring to the magnetic. So far I haven't gotten any product that has both qualities so we might have to compromise. Debbie says its not really responsible for us to just do bottle openers so the key ring one is better. Do you have preference on which one e.g the guitar, fish , horse head?
Yes napkin wraps I think we should do! I had sent them an email after they had sent over a proof, I don't think they replied. Maybe give them a call?
ReplyDeleteI am into the beach ball! I think that if we have to choose though we should do phone wallets over beach balls! Longer use, more use, etc.
Okay for the bottle openers. I don't know how much I love the shapes because they really don't have anything to do with compass! I think it would be better to get a circle or something that is less directed! The guitar would make send for campus events as they are concerts and such but for just our services it is not that related.
Met with Jen 1280. She's definitely in for the beach balls. We also talked about working on the hand sanitizer together. We could give them hand sanitizer to give out since they are a food service place. When they direct people to compass to buy tickets that would be great promotions. Shes also interested in the guitar shaped key ring.
ReplyDeleteShe even suggested we do more hand sanitizers over napkin wraps because they get thrown out a lot and people don't even look at it but hand sanitizer will be more lasting.
-Will call Jay to get details on the beach ball and Michelle about key rings if we can print on both sides.
Okay that sounds great! Ya I think that the guitar is good if we were to cross promote with someone who that has more relevance to- like 1280 or campus events! Sanitzer sharing is a good idea too! Should we just scrap the napkin wraps completely? They had never answered my email about shipping and they were coming from the states so it could be expensive.
ReplyDeleteyea! totally. I am going to talk to Al this afternoon. so we will know for sure about the guitar rings...either campus events or 1280. Jen was really excited about the beach balls. Im happy we scrapped the thundersticks. yes I think we should save our money and scrap napkin wraps totally, instead order more sanitizers to work with 1280 more... Jen was even like she doesn't care if 1280 isn' on the hand sanitizer she will still help in giving them out..I don't think they will split cost with us on that though but its still a good cooperation because they deal with food.
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