I want to take a few minutes here to thank Laurie Burke for her generous help on July 20^th. I had posted a message on two of my LinkedIn groups and received a lot of excellent advice from numerous people. I needed to get outside of my box and do some creative marketing in the bath and kitchen area. As comments came through, Laurie spoke   up and suggested that my company donate an Oven Claw Pro as a door prize for their next meeting. By introducing the Oven Claw Pro as a door prize to the joint Southern California, Central Coast & Valleys National Kitchen and Bath Association http://www.nkba.org/ meeting we could get some interesting promotion.

Laurie wrote, “We had many quizzical expressions coming from those who came to the registration counter and there were some funny comments too. I had the Oven Claw Pro on the table at the registration counter with the fliers. I announced the door prize asking everyone to put their business card into the bowl for the door prize drawing. At first glance, some asked if it was a back scratcher, others said it could be used as a weapon in case of intruders. When I explained its use and also that it is a great marketing tool to give to clients, I could see the light bulb effect go off. During the call to order at the meeting, the board president did not have his gavel, so we improvised using the Oven Claw Pro as our gavel. It got some more laughs as we said not only is this a handy tool in the kitchen but equally effective to call a meeting to order.”

We here at Leikam Enterprises, LLC also thank all those who contributed with their ideas as to what we could do to improve our exposure. We have taken action on several ideas and intend to follow through with others. A few examples of these contributions are:

1. Contact appliance manufacturers to see if they would be interested in your product as an add-on sale or even as an item that comes with a purchase.
2. Why not have Appliance Distributors, Kitchen & Bath Dealers be able to buy a small quantity of these and give them away as door prizes, or small gifts.
3. Home Shows
4. Put them on consignment to local dealers
5. Appliance centers. Show people how it works, maybe even give a few away.
6. Set up at kitchen and bath trade shows.
7. Rent a small area from a major appliance booth at a trade show.

You might be able to use some of these ideas too.

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