SOWPub Small Business Forums  
 

Click Here to see the latest posts!

Ask any questions related to business / entrepreneurship / money-making / life
or share your success stories (and educational "failures")...

Sign up for the Hidden Business Ideas Letter Free edition, and receive a free report straight to your inbox: "Idea that works in a pandemic: Ordinary housewife makes $50,000 a month in her spare time, using a simple idea - and her driveway..."

NO BLATANT ADS PLEASE
Also, please no insults or personal attacks.
Feel free to link to your web site though at the end of your posts.

Stay up to date! Get email notifications or
get "new thread" feeds here

 

Go Back   SOWPub Small Business Forums > Main Category > SOWPub Business Forum
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

SOWPub Business Forum Seeds of Wisdom Forum

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old March 31, 2013, 07:13 PM
BizmanBret
 
Posts: n/a
Default Any advice on promotional products business

I am thinking of adding promotional products to my product line. Does anyone have any experience they can share about how profitable this business really is?
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old March 31, 2013, 10:00 PM
ThePromotionalGuy.com
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: Any advice on promotional products business

Bret,

Glad you asked. I've sold promotional products in the past. The business is there but you have to hustle. The money isn't in selling the products themselves but in being a promotional consultant and building an organization.

If you focus on just selling the products, like many distributors do, your margins will be low due in part to Internet companies and companies from China.

If you want some solid training I would recommend David Blaise's material over at Top Secrets Of Promotional Products Sales

I own 3 of David's training materials.
  1. Getting Started
  2. Customer Acquisition
  3. Sales Person's System

David does have other material but when I was starting off I was with Kaeser & Blair but their training material was lacking and that lack of training cost me dearly financially.

Then I was introduced to David Blaise and Top Secrets. David introduces you to becoming a promotional adviser instead of just a promotional products distributor.

Since my introduction to that industry, the Internet is what leveled the playing field for those who just went around selling ad specialties. Now anyone can go online and order 250 pens without ever seeing a sales rep.

And it doesn't stop there. There are many promotional products manufacturers that are here one day and gone the next or bought out by larger companies.

To get a good feel of what the whole industry is like head over to ASIcentral

This page allows you to subscribe to the different industry online magazines for FREE and you get daily emails with solid content. I would highly recommend that you and anyone else interested in promotional products get a feel for what's going on in the industry before you make the plunge like I did. If what I knew then, what I know now I would have done it all differently.

Finally I have friend Scott Rauber that put out an ebook that focuses on putting up 1 product websites. The Javalina Pen is just one of his websites.

If you want to get his system it is found here Niche Search Selling

Hope this helps.

Quote:
Originally Posted by BizmanBret View Post
I am thinking of adding promotional products to my product line. Does anyone have any experience they can share about how profitable this business really is?
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old March 31, 2013, 11:36 PM
Phil
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: Any advice on promotional products business

Hi Bret,

Another awesome connection and resource...

Seriously worth Digging deep into, Studying & Learning...

Everything and Anything...

Michael Senoff related...
http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/aboutme2.htm
https://www.google.com/search?q=hard...ient=firefox-a
http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/audioclips.htm
http://www.hardtofindinterviews.com/...0Marketing.htm
http://www.monicoproducts.com

All the best,
Phil
Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Other recent posts on the forum...


Seeds of Wisdom Publishing (front page) | Seeds of Wisdom Business forum | Seeds of Wisdom Original Business Forum (Archive) | Hidden Unusual Business Ideas Newsletter | Hotsheet Profits | Persuade via Remote Influence | Affia Band | The Entrepreneur's Hotsheet | The SeedZine (Entrepreneurial Ezine)

Get the report on Harvey Brody's Answers to a Question-Oriented-Person


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:37 AM.


Powered by vBulletin Version 3.6.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.