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Tip Your Promotional Mugs In A Toast To Marketing
By Gareth Parkin
Let's begin this article by lifting our promotional mug high in the air and saying, ”Here's to you - marketing’s most illustrious giveaway”. It might take a good two to three hours to write down all of the reasons why promotional mugs are considered one of the best promotional items on the market. The reasons that mugs make excellent promotional marketing items will be listed below.
1. Promotional mugs are PRACTICAL and practicality is the name of the game in his fast-paced overscheduled world. People have too many things to do and places to go to be bothered with trying to find somewhere to store a promotional gift they received that has no practical value and they don't foresee being able to use.
This is not the same reception a promotional mug will receive because there is rarely a day goes by that the general population is not waking up every morning and scrambling to the kitchen for their first mug of coffee or tea. When this mug is filled to the brim with the eye opening liquid of choice, all is right with the world.
2. Besides the practicality side of promotional mugs, mugs have the ability to make people feel satisfied when they are drinking their favorite roasted coffee or brewed tea from their favorite mug. Mugs become almost like a glove to people in that if the mug is too heavy in their hand or it is too small, it won't fit like a glove and thus it doesn't feel right to them. A mug’s ability to make someone feel contented is an attribute that belongs to promotional mugs only.
3. Promotional mugs offer the company who is using them in their marketing activities of variety of options in styles, size, design, colors, graphics, and printing. With all of these options, a company is able to look deeply into the qualities,

attributes, likes and dislikes of their customer base and be able to plan promotional mugs campaigns or giveaways that will be individualized to the customers.
Because mugs in general are so “fitted” to the person using them, it is important that when you plan your promotional mug budget that you ensure a variety of different kinds of mugs will be purchased so customers will be able to individually select a mug that fits their hand and feels best of them.
Promotional mugs not only offer a variety of styles colors etc., they also come in a wide range of prices. If you are interested in using promotional mugs as your giveaways, be sure to remember that what you give to customers as or as a thank you for their business, will reflect upon your reputation. If you choose to buy low-quality promotional mugs, this may come back to haunt you.
4. It is always a good rule of some to buy the highest quality promotional items you can within your budget. If your budget does not allow for moderate quality promotional items, you may need to think about how to stratify your target market audience and provide promotional giveaways to maybe one group at a time.

Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK's largest online source of promotional mugs and printed mugs. He has taken the UK gift market by storm by the application of modern business thinking and the latest search engine marketing techniques. For more details visit www.ideasbynet.com