In Episode #396, Eric and Neil discuss whether or not you should invest in typical marketing swag. Tune in to learn why Eric and Neil won’t spend a cent on swag while Sujan, Single Grain’s founder, blogged that he made $500K from it.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
- 00:27 – Today’s topic: Should You Invest In Marketing Swag?
- 00:37 – Single Grain’s founder, Sujan Patel, had a lot of shirts and he made $500K out of it
- 00:50 – Personally, Eric won’t invest into swag
- 00:58 – Although, he has gotten useful swag from conferences before, and every time he uses the swag, he remembers the conference
- 01:18 – “You want to have stuff that people actually use”
- 01:37 – Neil believes that if you’re a big company, giving away swag is a good strategy in branding
- 01:45 – Swag can be too expensive for startups and it’s difficult to track your ROI from it
- 02:29 – If you want to try something, go to Startup Drugz instead
- 03:04 – Neil doesn’t create swag and would not even if he was a big company
- 03:30 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription of Crazy Egg which is a visual analytics tool
- 04:25 – Go to SingleGrain.com/giveaway for multiple entries
- 04:38 – That’s it for today’s episode!
3 Key Points:
- Big companies with extra funds can spend on swag because it can be a good branding strategy—“can” is the keyword.
- If you are going to invest in swag, make it as usable as possible, and don’t go cheap—you want it to last for a while.
- Because of the associated costs with having quality swag most startups and small businesses shouldn’t consider it.
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