You can use promotional merchandise to get a lot of attention for your business
. Before you can use these products for your business, you have to customize them. This is a chance to get really creative and have a great time. This is something that you can have your employees help you with. It can be a neat project for the whole staff.
It will probably be a faster process that you realize, when you get a team together to create promotional items. You can recruit people from your staff that are interested in helping with the process of designing and implementing promotional merchandise. Your people will get more excited about the job than you have ever seen them.
You will see your staff think up some things that never occurred to you before. It is a great way to get other opinions and to tap other peoples creativity. They no doubt have noticed things in your business that you didn't. It comes from having a difference in perspective, and that is always helpful in business.
People have talents and things that they do as a hobby, that you will have no idea about. Someone at the office is probably an amateur photographer and another person might like to draw and paint. Any of these will be very helpful when you are doing design work. Creativity is a personality trait as well and that is good for most anything.
By involving your employees in this aspect of the business you are giving them a chance to become invested in the business. This is probably the best possible way to make them care more about what goes on in the business and what will happen. Your employees are the ones on the front lines. They know exactly what is going on with the company from a very intimate standpoint. They will not only be full of good ideas of what can be done but they are going to be the first that are aware of anything that could possibly be an issue too.