Make your business stand out in your community!
Now, I’m always on the lookout for ideas and activities that help spread the word about emergency preparedness. Since you’re here, I assume that fits you, too. If you’re in business,
Here’s a way to use emergency preparedness to make your business stand out from the crowd!
It’s a simple idea. Just copy what one of my friends does so well!
Jacque is a longtime and very successful real estate sales professional. She’s also a CERT graduate. Now, while I don’t buy a house every year (!), Jacque and I do enjoy meeting up at various trainings, city meetings, etc.
Like many business owners, every year she delivers a holiday gift to clients and friends.
Of course, corporate gifts are common, particularly among professional service providers. I’m sure you’ve received boxes of candy, coffee cups with a company logo, maybe even a fancy bottle of wine in a tote bag. (Most of these gifts are worth less than $25, the magic number as far as IRS deductibility is concerned.)
These promotional items work to retain connections and create goodwill, and that’s why businesses continue to include them in their marketing plans.
What Jacque does that is different, though, is to deliver gifts with an emergency preparedness theme!
A couple of years ago, when our part of the world experienced multiple deliberate power shut-offs because of fire danger, Jacque’s gift was a bright red battery-operated lantern! (Collapsible style)
Last year, after we’d been threatened by evacuation, she handed out emergency radios pre-tuned to the city’s AM emergency channel.
And this year, she announced to me that for 2021 she wants to hand out “two or three of your mini-books” to help people get settled in their new home and feel more confident about what to expect in their new location.
We got together via Zoom and picked three (Shelter in Place, Custom Go-Bags and Power Outage) with two alternates. She placed her order and the books have already arrived! (I am eager to see how she packages them. Her gifts are always so stylish and tasteful!)
Emergency Preparedness gifts are a win-win promotion.
Of course, as author, I am proud to see my books being shared. And I earn a few pennies for every one sold.
But as a “Preparedness Activist,” I’m even more pleased. Getting people to take action has become our mission here at Emergency Plan Guide. Jacque’s clients and friends are a part of our community. The more prepared they are, the better off we will be, too!
Emergency Preparedness is a marketing message unique in our community. It can be a unique marketing message for your brand, too.
How can YOU take advantage of it to make your business stand out?
Joe and I stand by to join in a discussion of how you might offer tools or planning, discuss, gift or distribute emergency preparedness items to prospects, customers, and employees. There are many, many ways to turn your own expertise and this special interest into value for your business.
If you’d like to talk it over, send an email to get the conversation started!
Virginia
Your Emergency Plan Guide team
P.S. Some links to items (similar to those) mentioned in the Advisory:
- A set of colored lanterns – blue, green, purple and black, collapsible
- Small black emergency radio (AM, FM), battery-operated
- All our mini-books
