How Soon? How Much? Does it Cost to Make an Order?

Just about every day, we here at Gosser Corporate Sales receives a phone call where the person on the other end asks, “How soon can I get shirts and how much will they cost?” As much as I would love the answers to be “tomorrow” and “nothing,” we are unable to start and finish an order in one or two days for an inexpensive price. We can, however, do one of the following: finish the order quickly but at a more expensive price, or finish the order a little slower but at a more reasonable price. Normally, my first questions to the potential customer are, “How soon do you need your order?” and “How much do you have budgeted for your project?” Once those questions are answered, I can give an honest answer and proceed with getting them what they want, when they want it, and within their budget.

If a customer does need an order done quickly, Gosser Corporate Sales can still do that, but there are a few things to consider. First of all, what time of the day is the call being made? If I receive a phone call before noon, then I can still order the apparel, choose overnight shipping, and receive the apparel by the following day. Also, what type of apparel is the customer looking for? In some cases, it is possible that we may have some products in stock that we could embroider quickly.

Gosser Corporate Sales will always work quickly and efficiently to get your order done on time. Since the company’s inception in 2002, we have never missed an order deadline. However, if you know you’re going to need to place an order, give us a call more than a day or two in advance. That way, we can get the order finished the way you what it and more than likely within your budget. Please feel free to check out the selection of products on our website: www.gossercorpsales.com

Thanks, and have a great day!

-Rick

How Much Does It Really Cost to Make a Decorated T-Shirt?

I get calls every day from people across the country asking me “How much does it cost to make me a t-shirt?” as my current supplier can not make them in time. If answering that question was simple, then I would say $5.00. But, just like buying a new car, making shirts does require a few questions. How many do you want? What color do you want? How many colors of ink do you want? What does the design look like? (This is when I get, I don’t know what it looks like? That’s why I called you). Do you want a design on the front, back or both? How soon do you need them? Are you wanting these for an event? When is the event? Like I said, many questions to ask of a new potential client, just like shopping for a new car. You always have lots of questions about the features and benefits. Once all of these questions are answered, then we can get into price and how much the shirts are going to cost. Sometimes people say, I called so and so and they said that they can’t make the shirts I want because they are too busy right now. We will never say that to a potential client. We want your business and will do everything it takes to get your business and retain for future orders later. Let us be your supplier for shirts as once you try us, you will never use anyone else.

Rick Gosser
Gosseer Corporate Sales Inc.
219-808-9888

The Impact of Promotional Products for Businesses

Local business owners know that their usual customers are familiar with the products and services offered by their company. An issue that may exist for local business owners, however, is that the average person does not really know what they do for a living. Businesses spend thousands of dollars a year advertising in the newspaper, on the radio, and in the yellow pages. But when it comes down to the initial meeting of a new potential customer, what kind of first impression do you leave on him or her? How do you make sure that they remember you and your business? The average person cannot remember every name of every new person or business owner they meet at a networking event. You must give that person something to remember you by. One of the best ways to do that? Promotional products, of course!

Our most recent Gosser Corporate Sales promotional item was a magnet with our company name and website on it. What made the magnet unique was that it was in the shape of a t-shirt. Since our company embroiders and screen prints on apparel, a t-shirt magnet was a memorable way for people to remember our company. Anyone who got one of these magnets had a quick idea of what Gosser Corporate Sales does. We have a million ideas to share, no matter what you might be looking for.

Some other ideas for promotional products: A golf company could hand out golf tees, a coffee shop could hand out coffee mugs, or a cleaning company could hand out hand sanitizer. A well thought out promotional product will make your company stand out from other businesses.

Gosser Corporate Sales can make almost any promotional product you can think of; we can literally print on almost everything.

Remember: Promotional products do work. People will not only remember you, but they will also remember your business.

A few of the “hottest” promotional products right now are: Eco Shopping Bags, and still a staple is Coffee Mugs.

Rectangle Flip Mirrors is another “hot” imprinted promotional product for women’s purses.

Rick Gosser

Let us do what we do best, so that you do what you do best

Hiring us to make your custom apparel is easy, just let us do the work. I recently spent hours emailing back and forth to a client trying to get her logo in a format we could use to make her t-shirts for her in 2-days. She kept sending me the artwork with the text in her file being corrupt, etc. I finally called her and she said “I’m not a graphic designer”, “I’m a director of marketing”. I could have saved her lots of time and aggravation if she would have told me from the start that she was using Corel Draw to create her artwork. My point is “Do what you do best and let us do what we do best”. In this case, the director of marketing should have spent her valuable time marketing her company to potential clients, etc. and not spending her time creating logos. Let us do the work and create your logos so that we can make your screen printed t-shirts or custom embroidered apparel.

Here is a logo that we converted and printed digitally for a new client:

Digital printed dri-fit shirts

Here is a logo that we converted to embroidery for a new client:

Grimmer Gladiator Embroidered

Next time you want to create your logo, please re-consider that thought and hire a graphic designer so we can do what we do best and you can do what you do best.

Is your QR code printed on something you hand out?

Recently we have been printing QR codes on just about everything that you can imagine. Do you have your QR Code yet?

You may be asking yourself, what is a QR Code? A QR Code is a marketing tool that you get for free. You can create QR Codes for websites, blogs, landing pages, special sales you may be having, whatever you want your customers to be driven to on the internet. Our QR Code takes to you our company website.

We have told many of our clients about QR Codes and now we are telling them to market them to their clients.

We are printing QR Codes on business cards, water bottles and even screen printed some t-shirts.

Let us know where we can help you in creating a QR Code and then market your QR Code.

Rick Gosser

Advertise your company when you drive? You got 3-5 seconds.

The average business person spends 70% of their time driving around visiting or making deliveries to current clients or calling on potential clients, so why not promote your business name on your vehicle with some type of advertising. When you decide to advertise on your vehicle, keep it short and simple. Company name, tag line, telephone number and company website. For those using social media, put your Twitter name on your vehicle. @gossersales is our Twitter name.

Vehicle signage is a very prominent way to promote your business name. I encourage all businesses to advertise their business whether you have just one vehicle or an entire fleet. Don’t miss an opportunity to advance your company or to simply beautify your vehicle. We can apply vehicle signage to cars, trucks, vans, or even boats. Advertise your services around the clock. Fleet vehicles can be uniformly signed and wrapped which shows true company organization and professionalism.

I have a client that owns a landscaping business and he parks his company vehicle at various places around Northwest Indiana in shopping malls, big box stores parking lots on Sundays to advertise his business for free. In addition, he places weatherproof business card holders on his vehicles and interested people can take his business cards. What a unique marketing idea that costs nothing other than driving the vehicle to the lots. Let us know if we can help you design some vehicle signage for your business.

U.S.A. made Promotional Products are more expensive, a fallacy.

Today many promotional products are Made in the U.S.A. that you can get with your company information imprinted on. There is a fallacy out there that things are more expensive if made in the U.S.A. and it’s just that, a fallacy. Today, there are many great products that include water bottles, sport bottles, stadium cups, megaphones, plastic basketballs, plastic footballs, plastic soccer balls, flyers (frisbees I called them when I was a kid), glass goblets, stem glassware, pilsner glasses, beer glasses, mixing glasses, candy jars, glass coffee mugs. These are just a few from just one of my suppliers: MegaFast

Please contact us directly if you are looking for some other promotional product for your company. We will help you find what you are wanting. Rick Gosser, owner of Gosser Corporate Sales .

If you need any help on an idea for your company, please contact me.

Rick

Custom Branded Digital Reward cards for Businesses

We recently have been promoting to businesses that they can get Custom Branded Digital Reward Cards to hand out to their clients to say “Thank You” for their business. Others are using them to give to potential clients for giving a referral to them or for completing an application to give them a quote. The nice promotion is that you can distribute them any way you want. You can use them to reward your employees for doing a great job. Be creative on how you want to give them out.

The biggest thing is that you have a choice of what to give them. Digital Reward Cards carry valuable premiums such as Dining Reward Certificates, Music Downloads, Movie Tickets, Photo Prints, Magazine Subscriptions, Plant-A-Tree cards, Digital Choice cards, Ringtone cards, DVD Movie cards, Custom Skins for Phones cards, Hotel Reward cards.

These cards are powerful. The digital incentives lets you reward customers and employees, helping to build brand loyalty and recognition.

Click here to see more details of the cards: Media Tree Cards

Rick Gosser, owner of Gosser Corporate Sales , is giving you this idea to help you promote your business without spending a small fortune.

If you need any help on what to do or how to go about doing it, please contact me.

Rick

“Power Promoting Your Company” by Gosser Corporate Sales

“Power Promote Your Company” to your clients. Many businesses do not take the time to contact their current database of clients on a regular basis. They are constantly looking for new businesses to do business with when all they have to do is look in their own computers. “Power Promote Your Company” to you clients. Create a marketing campaign to your existing clients. What I mean by “Power Promote” is to send a postcard to your existing client database such as “We miss doing business with you”, send them a “Thank You for the Business” card, get set-up with an automated card sending company that will send them a card of your choice on a specific date.

Send them something as frequently as you can. The more touches you have with your existing clients, then the more they know about your business.

You can create a weekly sales flier, a company newsletter, a website change that tells them about a new product line you have or specials you have going on. Regardless of what you have going on with your business, please tell your current clients about what that might be.

If you need any help on what to do or how to go about doing it, please contact me.

Rick

Low-Cost Ways to Promote Your Business – Day 3

I will be sharing various ways to promote your business through low cost ideas during the remaining days of February.

Day 3 – Promote your business by giving a seminar or presentation where you can talk about a specialty that you are passionete about and also mention your business. For example, my latest presentation is “Promote Change in Your Lifestyle and Business” where I talk about my journey through weight loss as well as my business. In addition, I typically mention these free ideas that I am sharing with you here on my blog.

Rick Gosser, owner of Gosser Corporate Sales , is giving you these free ideas to help you promote your business without spending a small fortune.