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Sources for Promotion
This business eats up ideas. And they say you are only as good as your last promotion. How do you keep the juices flowing and find ideas to trigger consumers' buying response?
  • Study the pop culture: Movies and new TV shows indicate hot trends
  • Read consumer surveys. They provide keys to what motivates people
  • Visit a bookstore and note the most popular titles.
  • Sports occupy a lot of leisure time. Look at a sports magazine with a consumer-tilted view.
  • Go shopping. Look at ypur brand or product in the context of your competitors—on the shelf.
  • Need some fresh ideas? Call Milmour. It's free.
 
 
 

Center on Your brand or Product
Really effective promotions are directly connected to the brand or product, not just an add-on with a vague or nonexistent connection. there are some simple ways to make this all-important connection.

When planning a premium promotion, it is important to analyze how the brand is being used. Then we need to turn to new ways to put a spin on this use and to expand and deepen that use.

Clever, instantly recognizable tie-ins are essential. We don't want the consumer to wonder, "Why are they offering this thing? What's it got to do with the product?"

milmour has honed its experience into expertise in helping marketers develop imaginative tie-ins that move branded products off the shelf.

When a major cheese food manufacturer needed to create some excitement around its leading brand to counter price competition from house brands, Milmour developed a brightly colored recipe box that looked just like the product's package.Available in-the-mail through an order form on the package, the premium was available with several recipe cards provided by the cheese-maker.

And, they saw that the cheese-maker understood how they live todat. Busy cooks need fast and convenient meal ideas, new ways to please a hungry family with a nutritious meal.

Consumers appreciated the recipe holder with the cards and responded by buying more product, since they were cooking with cheese more often.

In-Store Premiums Drive Promotion Outlook
Point-of-sales premium promotions go a long way toward revitalizing sales of a mature brand. Custom premium designed to engage the customer to use the product in a new and different way can do much to stimulate sales over a longer term.

The right custom premium changes the customer's perception of the brand, making it more valuable by suggesting new uses. One example was a custom designed bunny-shaped mold we created for Jell-O® to stimulate sales during the Easter season. Packed in an aisle display near the brand, along with a special Jell-O recipe booklet, This premium created attention and excitement for a mature brand. It also provided the consumer with something of value (the bunny-shaped plastic mold), that she could not obtain anywhere else—free.

Rather than cheapening the product with a discount coupon offer, a plastic premium such as our bunny mold adds extra value to your brand. It gets more attention for the brand in the store and in the home when the jiggly bunny, fully decorated, appears at the Easter feast for the whole family to enjoy and talk about. A custom premium generates more positive, long-lasting public relations in your customer's home than any discount coupon can ever hope to deliver.
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