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| Sal Ammoniac:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 16, 2023, 03:09:44 am ---Yeah I've never seen a dev board or anything like that given out as tradeshow swag. Typically stuff that is given out in volume needs to be under $1ea in cost, maybe a few dollars for something like a shirt that they give out a lot of but not as freely as something like a pen or ruler. More expensive items could be given out as prizes to a handful of people chosen in a drawing, or sold at a discounted price at the booth. It's unrealistic to expect expensive items to be given out in large numbers, thousands of people will line up to grab a free dev board and probably 90% of them will end up on a shelf somewhere or flogged on ebay. --- End quote --- You must not have gone to the same trade shows as I have because I've gotten plenty of dev boards over the years. Free dev boards at the shows seems to have dried up about a decade ago, but before then they weren't uncommon. Another common tactic was to give out a free dev board to those who brought a competitor's board to trade in. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 16, 2023, 09:22:31 pm ---You must not have gone to the same trade shows as I have because I've gotten plenty of dev boards over the years. Free dev boards at the shows seems to have dried up about a decade ago, but before then they weren't uncommon. Another common tactic was to give out a free dev board to those who brought a competitor's board to trade in. --- End quote --- I've only been to software trade shows, and I went to a lighting trade show with my dad when I was a kid, one of the reps did give me a couple of fancy new light bulbs. |
| daqq:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 16, 2023, 03:09:44 am ---Typically stuff that is given out in volume needs to be under $1ea in cost, maybe a few dollars for something like a shirt that they give out a lot of but not as freely as something like a pen or ruler. --- End quote --- I was just at embedded world, ST was giving away proper devkits. Not like just take them from a pile, but after a quick chat they'd give one to you. Though I'm pretty sure that they were trying to fix their image in the eyes of the public after the whole chip crisis thing. |
| RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: metrologist on March 15, 2023, 07:44:48 pm ---We don't sell MCUs --- End quote --- OK, then what are you selling, or at least say the activity domain and the allowed cost per swag item. By your username and assuming your company is into metrology, maybe offer a $1-2 reference part, a resistor/capacitor/voltage reference. If not, usually techie items are more valued by men, fabric items by women. For example, a branded (with your company logo) screwdriver for a man, an embroidered scarf for a woman. |
| tooki:
Like others have said, I prefer useful things. Low-quality examples of otherwise useful things also don’t make the cut. Some of my favorites: Post-it notes Strong magnets Good keychains Product samples One of the cleverest keychains I encountered was at a job fair, where Skyguide (Switzerland’s air traffic control operator) had heavy, embroidered canvas keychains designed to look like the “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” pitot tube covers, but that say “CONTACT BEFORE FLIGHT” instead. I think the biggest goodie I ever got was when I was at Macworld Expo 2008 (to work at the Apple booth), and on a day off I checked out the rest of the expo. I ended up talking to a Shure guy, and mentioned that I wasn’t thrilled with the ~$150 SE210 in-ear buds I had bought recently. He told me to wait a sec, and went to the back, then came back and handed me a case and said “see if you like these better” — a set of the $300 SE310 (which were indeed vastly better). |
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