Brand Merchandise Start-Up Essentials
With so much to do and so little time to do it, it may seem like a grueling task to think about building a custom promotional product program. Luckily, these branded essentials can help you get a running start and enter the business world with everything you need to sustain growth through merchandise.
Show everyone who you are
At the beginning stages of a start-up, no one knows who you are quite yet. Curating the right branded items and promotional products to represent your young brand is a great opportunity to get people to know and remember the company quickly.
To curate the perfect collection, here are a few starting questions:
- What are your brand’s ethos, vision, and mission?
- Who is your target audience?
- What industry are you in?
- What is your brand’s archetype?
- What story are you looking to tell?
Answering these questions gives you an idea of what direction to take your strategy and how to achieve your goals while making the investment benefit the growing business.
Consider the objectives
With brand merchandise, to really make it worthwhile, think about the goal you’d like to achieve. For young start-ups, companies like to outfit their new employees with company apparel and promotional gear to rep the brand and wear their pride.
You may be hitting the road to take as many sales meetings as you can. Shake up the norm, ditch the one-sheets, and leave behind well-branded items that speak to your company. Make them usable like a branded notebook but with a unique twist that surprises those who use them.
Investing in branded merch without a focused objective often makes the investment fall flat and seen as an ineffective growth strategy.
Branded merch essentials
Team apparel
Outfitting your employees with screen printed t-shirts, custom hats, and custom sweatshirts not only gives them a sense of exclusivity and pride but can help build a cohesive company culture through the experience of a shared identity.
You can also use apparel to outfit your customers and effortlessly spread the word about your up-and-coming brand.
Hats
Custom hats are a great way to increase brand awareness, represent your company during events and tradeshows, and to outfit your employees in company swag that promotes the brand to everyone in their network.
Hats are customizable down to every last stitch, so you can design a collection like you are designing your company — from the ground up.
Company merch
When you are starting off at a new job, company merch can make all the difference between things feeling jumbled and scattered to things feeling organized and easily accessible.
With new people to meet and new processes and programs to learn, you want to create a nice atmosphere for your new employees to feel at ease and included with the team.
Start off right with branded office supplies like branded water bottles, custom backpacks, tumblers, company stationery, notebooks — the works.
This can show to both your employees and investors that your company is dedicated to creating a consistent brand identity inside and outside of the workplace.
Contact us to get started so that you can check these essentials off the list!