The economy is not at its best right now, and businesses are feeling the pinch. Small business owners are always looking for ways to increase sales. Custom T-shirts can be used in many ways to bring in customers and encourage them to buy.
One way to promote sales is to give away custom T-shirts with every purchase of a certain dollar amount. For example, you might have a deal that anyone who buys $100 worth of merchandise gets a free shirt. If you do not make the amount too high, the custom T-shirt might influence their decision to buy. This is especially true if you have created an interesting and unusual shirt.
Small stores often like to use punch card promotions to acquire regular customers. People come into the store and get a punch on their card each time they spend a certain amount of money. Another choice is to send out a circular with a featured product. Everyone who buys that product will get a punch on their card. Prizes like custom T-shirts will be available to people who get enough punches.
Sometimes, it is a good idea to have a drawing for custom T-shirts and other prizes. It is important, though, to make sure you understand the rules about drawings in your state. Usually, you will be alright if you do not charge for people to enter the drawing and you give away the promised prizes. You might be able to let customers put in an entry every time they visit the store. As an incentive, you can display the custom T-shirts you plan to give away on the big day.
You can get customers into the store for a big sale by offering a shirt to the first people who show up on that day. People love to get free things and will often come in early to get a chance to get something. If someone else will miss out on it later, some people like it even better. If you give custom T-shirts to the first 50 people, you might get many more people coming out for the sale that would not have come otherwise. Once they have tried for their custom T-shirts, people may browse your store and even buy.
If you can come up with a clever and attractive design for your custom T-shirts, people will want to buy them to wear. You have them printed with your company name and contact information on them as a part of an interesting design. Then you can sell them at cost. People will see the shirt as a cost effective casual clothing choice. The best part for you is that you will have advertising that is ultimately paid for by the customer.
Small business owners who are wise will use every means at their disposal to make the sales they need to prosper. It always helps to be creative in your sales programs. Custom T-shirts are a good way to bring in the business.
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QUESTION One: Would you care if your mother, sister, any family member did not like where you shop for clothes or criticized where you shopped for clothes?
QUESTION TWO: Would you be wondering if they were laughing at you when you wear your clothes? Give details.
QUESTION THREE: How would you handle it if someone did not like where you shop for clothes or criticized where you shopped for clothes?
QUESTION FOUR: Do you agree with Roberta that it should not matter what other people think?
GIVE DETAILS:
Here is why I asking. Tonight Stacy and her mom went to her sister?s, brother-in-law?s house (and two nephews) for dinner.
Roberta: ?Where did you buy that blouse. At the 99 cent store?
Stacy: ?Yes?
Stacy thought that was the end of the conversation. But right after Stacy cleaned up the dinner dishes (to help her sister) and came back out to the dining room the following conversation took place.
Roberta: ?Why do you want to buy clothes at the 99 cent store. I mean you are not poor?
This got Stacy mad and she lashed out at her sister and her mom.
Roberta: ?I am not attacking you I am just curious.?
Stacy: ?But I like the clothes there. I don?t get the crappy ones and I get a lot of compliments?
Roberta: ?But you don?t know who wore them before - they are used. I can see buying jewelry there, paper towels, purses?
Stacy: ?I don?t care if someone else wore them I like them. And the ones I buy you cannot tell that they were someone else?s. And I rather buy them there then go to a department store and spend $28?
Mom: ?Stacy has tons of clothes from the 99 cent store?
Roberta: ?Stop yelling. So you are saying you rather have quality then quantity?
Stacy: ?I only get the quality? Stacy was getting madder by the minute
Roberta: ?Stop yelling. I am not putting it down I am just curious. I was just asking. All you had to say was the following ?I like them and I prefer to shop at the 99 cent store? instead of going into major explanations?
Then they had a nice discussion. Roberta told Stacy that it really should not matter what other people think. That even though their mom and Roberta feel that they would never buy in the 99 cent store that doesn?t mean that Stacy should stop. And that even though Roberta does not like Macy?s there are people who shop in Macy?s that doesn?t meant these people are wrong for shopping at Macy?s. The same thing with the 99 cent store. That there are people who shop at the 99 cent store and like it. Roberta also said that if Stacy went to Sephora?s with Roberta and Roberta purchased a lot of lipstick Stacy would think that Roberta is crazy. But Roberta would not care because Roberta likes makeup. And also that their mom says plenty of things to Roberta but Roberta ignores their mom. because she does not care what the mom says.
Also Roberta told Stacy that Stacy always dresses nicely and Stacy likes clothes. When Stacy asked do you like this blouse. Her sister did say it was pretty but that is not the point, that Roberta is sure that Roberta has worn things that Stacy did not like, Stacy replied true" so it really is not important if Roberta likes it or not.
Stacy did tell her sister that her mom is a hypocrite because her mother accepted four blouses that Stacy purchased at the 99 cent store and her mom has come with her to the 99 cent store to look at the clothes. Her mother got defensive and said ?I only wore one of the blouses you purchased, it had a ticket on it, and I never purchased anything there?
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