Monday, January 12, 2009

The Need For Quality In Promotional Leisurewear

By Matthew Calvin

Recent studies have shown that promotional leisurewear is a very efficient choice as promotional products go. Companies have been encouraged to use it in their marketing campaigns and its popularity has grown immensely. However, many companies complain that their results are not acceptable, and the reason for that is that they chose low quality leisurewear. This is where quality counts. By using the lesser garments, not only did they not make their marks, but their choice could actuall end up working against them, tainting them beyond where they were to start with.

Today, audiences are extremely quality conscious and they see through lesser quality in clothing items even though they may receive them for free. Promotional leisurewear too has to qualify this test to get accepted by the audience. The first parameter of quality is visual appearance and promotional products are required to be extra attractive to lure in audience attention amongst the competitor brand offering the same promotional article. Any compromise on the visual appeal will at once get the products rejected at the initial stage.

Having crossed the first stage, the promotional leisurewear encounters the second aspect of quality, which is comfortability. If the clothing has bad-fitting, uneasy cuts or made out of rough fabric, the audience do not definitely include them in their everyday utility.

The low quality of the promotional leisurewear also ruins the reputation of the brand it represents. A brand is known by the corporate gifts they present to their audiences. They are symbolic of the brand status. If the promotional gifts of a brand are low on their quality the prestige of the brand is marred to a large extend. It tends to develop a bad name, for it is recognised by its low-grade representatives amongst the public. This negative publicity hampers the brand to generate any impact on the audience mind.

This bad quality promotional clothing fails to justify the cost incurred on them. They are subjected to easy wear and tear. This prevents them from remaining within the audience base for long, which ultimately leads to restricted period of brand awareness. Moreover, their short life curtails their scope of visit to more places along with their user and propagates the brand message to newer audiences. Therefore, further investment has to be made to revive the promotional campaign, which is in no way a profitable proposition. - 16928

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