Plastic Door Hanger Bags

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By pizerule

An effective direct marketing strategy that aims at delivering advertisements straight to the door is to use plastic door hangers and to protect that message you can use a plastic door hanger bag. Trying to get the message out in an efficient way can be difficult and you’d rather have your flyer in a place where people will see it. What better place than on the door handle?

The key with using plastic door handle bags to do your direct marketing is that when someone comes home and finds one of them on their front door they will take it off their door as they walk in and take it into the house. The advertisement has now made it further than many other types of advertising. IF it has company details or logos on the side of it, it will be in eye-shot for the entire time it is left in the house.

The thing with using a plastic door hanger bag is that it isn’t limited to only holding paper brochures or flyers, they can contain any sort of promotional knick-knacks you like.

You could stuff these promotional bags with fridge magnets with the business details on them or even a free sample of your sales products.

The main thing to have on your hanger bags is your company logo and contact details such as the telephone number of website details.

The clear low density polyethylene bags allow the products or brochures to be visible while providing protection from rain, dirt, dust or snow. They are usually mounted on a cardboard header with a hole in the top to be slipped over the doorknob.

Sometimes you don’t want the world to see what is contained inside your plastic door hanger bag so there is also an option to use opaque plastic bags. These bags are basically identical to the clear plastic door hanger bags except that you cannot see what is contained within.

Prices for door hanger bags vary a little depending on the size of the bag and the thickness of the plastic with which it is made and whether you want them printed with your company details or simply left plain. As an example you can get a packet of 500 bags that are sized at 9.5” x 15” for $39. Smaller bags such as bags sized 8.5” x 11” can be bought in a range of colors for $47 for a packet of 1050.

Plastic door hanger bags don’t have to merely be used as an advertising method, workers and technicians who work on-site can use them to leave invoices or receipts for home or business owners for collection when they return. The bags will ensure the flimsy paper doesn’t get ruined or blow away.

As an added incentive to buy certain door knob hanger bags, companies are now producing them made from recyclable polyethylene. Not only are they ideal for holding cards, flyers, pens or key tags they are also friendly to the environment. Some are made more durable with attached corrugated cardboard headers so they might be handled more easily.

Problems such as build up of condensation within the bag is catered for with small vent holes at the bottom of the bags giving you the ideal means of ensuring that the contents will remain fresh and clean.

Naturally, if you shop around you can find a deal that will suit your budget and needs. It will all depend on the kind of merchandise or advertising you will want to do with your plastic door hanger bags.

These door hanger bags can be used in more situations than simply by leaving on random door knobs. When attending conferences and seminars there may be an opportunity to hand out your details within these bags. It may also be the opportunity, while staying at the hotel, to ask the hotel manager if it would be acceptable to place your plastic door hangers on the doors of the hotel while you are staying there.

If you are imaginative with the door hanger plastic bags you should find a lot of different uses for them. If you have had them printed with the company logo on the side, merely having them lying around will put your name in front of the eyes of as many people as possible.

When marketing your business you want to be able to come up with as many innovative ideas as possible. The distribution of your literature is a vital part of this. Ensuring that your target audience can actually read the flyers is a big first step towards running a successful campaign.

Plastic Door Hangers

Closely related to the door hanger bags are the plastic door hangers. These promotional devices are also hung on the front door but instead of containing promotional information on the inside, the details are printed on the outside for all to see.

It is possible to buy plastic door hangers already custom printed with your logo and marketing details on them or you can buy blank plastic door hangers that you can print up yourself. It is possible to do your own design on your home computer and then printing it out on your printer. Door hangers can be bought in bulk and you can prepare them any way you like.

If you would rather the job completed professionally there are services available that allow you to create your own design. Once you are happy with your design you can email it to the door hanger specialists who will complete the printing for you. If you have difficulties coming up with a suitable design or layout there are templates that you can follow.

Plastic door hangers are an economical solution and they will hold up well under a lot of use. They are great for printing instructional information such as fire emergency plans that can be kept inside rooms, hung on the doorknob.

Printable door hangers are also available in thick cardboard stock that can be used indoors or outdoors. The blank door hangers are often bought as joined cardboard that has been perforated to form 2 or 3 hangers when they are separated. Having them joined to start off with means that the printing process takes place much more quickly.

Trying A Door Hanger Advertisement Campaign

Door hangers are proving to be an effective way to get the company brand and logo in front of the eyes of consumers. Using a door hanger advertisement proves to give good results because it is not a mainstream advertising method so there is less of a tendency to immediately dismiss the object hanging on the handle of their front door.

Although you cannot guarantee that your door hanger advertisement will be embraced by every person who encounters it on their door handle, it is certainly a method that will raise the hit rate. The plastic door hanger will not give you as much versatility as the hanger bags but by printing a run of 1000, you will be able to get a good gauge on the success you can expect with a wider campaign.

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camdjohnston12 10 months ago

Great ideas here! Thanks for the information.

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