The Redbows Promotional Gifts Blog

The first batch of our Marks & Spencer vouchers left our office last night and are winging their way to some lucky clients. We like to say ‘thank you’ at Redbows for trusting us with your promotional gifts orders and their delivery and fulfillment. The voucher idea just seamed the right way to do this as it is personal but also something that can be shared. For clients who cannot receive vouchers like this we offer to donate the equivalent funds to our chosen charity – Starlight.

Dawn our MD has been spending some time taking part in industry debates on LinkedIn – the business networking site. Dawn’s linked in profile can be viewed at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnkoffler and recommendations are always welcome off course. What’s nice about LinkedIn is the informal way it connects industry people with clients and suppliers and allows them to take part in special groups – such as that run by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) – sharing information and comments that can only help to further shape both policy and direction of industries like ours. At Redbows we also use Facebook and Twitter as further ways to connect with clients and spread our message about promotional gifts.

We love to say ‘thank you’ and in May we launched our Marks & Spencer rewards scheme for new orders. This latest promotion has proved a real winner with clients and we are just drawing up the list of the clients who will receive their Marks & Spencer vouchers over the next week. Rewards are based on the value of an order placed for promotional gifts with Redbows. For those clients who cannot receive a gift from our company, we are more than happy to donate the gift voucher value to our chosen charity – Starlight.

OK we have now started to Twitter and have a Redbows feed available on http://www.twitter.com/redbows. We have only just started and are amazed at the number of people that are following us already. I guess this is a form of viral marketing and wonder what it will do for us. The way I see Twitter is that it is a micro blogging website that allows you to connect with a host of people, especially those on the move via a PDA or iPhone. We will see what happens.