Posts Tagged ‘product sampling’

Halloween residence hall product sampling distribution

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Halloween is a perfect opportunity for brands to implement a residence hall product sampling distribution on campus.  In addition to samples, a door hanger promotion is a great way to generate buzz for your brand during Halloween.  Students’ doors are often decorated for the holidays offering creative branding opportunities for your company.

Product sampling to college students studying abroad

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Students that spend a semester living and studying abroad often credit this experience as the most memorable experience of their college career.  Campus Solutions, the country’s premier college marketing company specializing in Out of Home and non-traditional media offer brands product sampling opportunities to reach college students studying abroad.

Campus Solutions will execute your college initiative and coordinate delivery through our network of university and college study abroad programs.  Students will receive your product or your company’s marketing material the days and weeks before they travel abroad.  Options also include American Express gift card incentives and brand-sponsored international phone card giveaways.  Promoting your brand to this segmented group of college students planning a trip abroad is a unique opportunity to generate brand awareness and differentiate your company.

For more information on Campus Solutions’s college and OOH media, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com.

Spring Break hotel media: Spring Break marketing

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

With the increased popularity among marketers to establish a presence on Spring Break, many advertisers are considering the benefits of hotel media.  No longer simply product sampling, Spring Break hotel marketing offer brands an outlet to deliver their message to college students while on Spring Break in a relative clutter-free environment.  As students are checking into their hotels, they may be greeted by brand models and directed to the marketers tabling events in the hotel lobbies.  Advertisers may also choose to implement customized branded elevator wraps, key card promotions or in-room promotions.

Campus Solutions, Inc., the college and Gen Y marketing specialists, offer our clients effective hotel advertising in both Panama City Beach and South Beach, Miami.  In this week’s issue of, Media Life Magazine, the article, “Your Client Chilling On Spring Break: How to reach college students staying at resort hotels”, references Campus Solutions’ sampling and hotel media network in Panama City Beach and South Beach.  A second article in MediaBuyerPlanner, “Spring Break Advertising Reaches 32% of College Students”, also published this week, highlights Campus Solutions’ hotel media opportunities and includes a photo of one of our client’s Spring Break promotions on South Beach.

For more information on Spring Break hotel media, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan.

Campus Solutions’ tanning salon media network offers unique branding experience

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Indoor tanning salons’ popularity as a whole remains high while the industry has established itself as more than just a fading trend.  In a recent article, In many cities, tanning salons beat Starbucks, by Diane Mapes, the article compares the total number of indoor tanning facilities per capita to the number of McDonald’s and Starbucks establishments in many cities.

Campus Solutions, Inc., a non-traditional marketing company specializing in reaching young adults, offers our clients unique branding opportunities to reach tanning salon patrons.  Campus Solutions’ 2,000+ network of indoor tanning salons allows brands to reach primarily young adult consumers whom frequent tanning salons on a regular basis.  Product sampling opportunities are available in the waiting rooms, in the tanning beds, at the registers and within the bathrooms.  Product sampling within the tanning salons’ bathrooms are great opportunities for products within the personal hygiene, feminine hygiene and personal care product industries to allow this important demographic to experience your product.

Other opportunities includes promotional posters and flyers displayed throughout the facility and surveys and sweepstakes displays within the waiting rooms and at the front desk.  For more information on tanning salon media opportunities or other non-traditional media, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan.

College graduation marketing strategies

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Graduation day is a huge benchmark in the lives of college students.  This date is marked in both the calendars of students and parents and the arrangements to attend graduation ceremonies are made months in advance.  Brands interested in reaching college students on the cusp of graduation as they enter the workforce should consider earmarking a budget to reach this important consumer group.

Campus Solutions, a college marketing company specializing in advertising programs that segment the college student demographic, is providing our clients with a number of unique methods to target these graduating seniors and their parents.  Graduation weekend is a terrific opportunity to reach both students and parents during the student’s final year in college.  Campus Solutions, Inc. offers a number of strategies to interact with the crowds of students and parents during graduation weekend whether it be through product sampling, college street teams, branded bus tours, demonstrations or tabled events on campus.

For more information on college graduation marketing events or college advertising, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.

Marketing to college women: product sampling and product promotion

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

For consumer brands geared towards young adult women, a product sampling and promotional event reaching college women can be an effective use of a company’s resources.  Campus Solutions, Inc., a college marketing company specializing in product promotion and non-traditional advertising, offer brands targeted sampling distribution and focused product sampling based on each client’s target markets and consumer demographics.  Campus Solutions has the ability to segment the college demographic by implement highly-targeted sample distribution.

For each college sampling initiative, our clients are assured that the execution of their brand’s college promotion is in accordance with campus guidelines and local and state laws.  For a product sampling and promotional event targeting college women, our extensive college media network offers a variety of methods to focus your brand’s initiative.

For more information on marketing to college women or Out-of-home advertising, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.

College newspaper advertising and street teams: ASU, Tempe, Phoenix metro area

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

For brands interested in reaching college students in the Phoenix metro area, Campus Solutions, Inc. and our media partners provide opportunities to reach college students on 20 campuses throughout the Valley.

For a college newspaper advertising initiative, our company can help place your ads in weekly publications distributed to Arizona State University and Valley campuses with readership of over 200,000.  Your company’s ad campaign will be overseen by our college experts who will ensure you receive the best placement and price available.

For a product sampling initiative, our company provides street teams and sampling opportunities at Arizona State University each week.  Your company’s street teams will target venues both on and off campus or focus on school-sponsored events.  Product sampling, promotional material distribution, contests, prizes and giveaways are available.

Campus Solutions, Inc. offers college newspaper advertising, street teams and interactive college marketing events throughout the country.  For more information on our Phoenix metro opportunities or a regional or national college advertising initiative, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.

Port Authority and PATH Train Advertising

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

With millions of passengers traveling through the Port Authority of NY & NJ terminals each week, the Port Authority and PATH Train stations make for great advertising opportunities to target the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut adult demographic.

A Port Authority or PATH advertising promotion reaches high-income NYC and Tri-State Area commuters as they travel to/from work or to a local NYC area airport.  Campus Solutions, Inc. provides a number of Port Authority and PATH Train media.  Both traditional and non-traditional advertising opportunities are available which include posters, floor graphics, product sampling and interactive events.  One opportunity we recommend is focusing on one specific station and saturating the location with your message.

For more information on Port Authority media and PATH Train transit system advertising, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.

Product Sampling To Reach Active Men

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Campus Solutions, Inc. offers a number of product sampling and literature placement opportunities that reach a captive audience in a clutter-free environment.  Connecting brands with their targeted audience, our turn-key programs enable brands to reach targeted demographics in major U.S. cities.

For a product sampling campaign geared to reach active men, our networks are designed to focus on venues where men frequent the most.  Some of our most popular networks targeting active men include:

  • Health Clubs
  • Sports Centers
  • Barber Shops, Hair and Nail Salons

We will focus on high-volume fitness centers and barber shops in your specified markets.  The goal here is to capture young males with staggered frequency.  Men, on average, trim their hair once every three weeks.  However, they work out at their gym three or four times per week.  The emphasis will be placed on involving several locations per market.

For more information on the sampling programs we offer, please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.

Product Sampling to Women: Salon and Fitness Opportunity

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Campus Solutions, Inc. is a strategic product placement company designed to match high-quality products with their ideal target demographic.  We are also considered one of the most recognized college marketing companies in the country.  Since 2005, we have been providing our clients with product sampling opportunities to reach active women on the go.

Campus Solutions has developed the most extensive network of hair and nail salons as well as yoga and Pilates centers throughout the country.  Our experienced staff will be hand-delivering a supply of product samples to satisfy the demand of the salons and yoga and Pilates centers for a one month duration.  Campus Solutions will offer entrée into this highly-concentrated group of active women.  The focus of the campaign is placed on brand awareness and accurate execution of this very specific niche.

We encourage companies to contact our company to ensure a successful product sampling campaign.  For more information please visit our website at www.campussolutionsinc.com or feel free to reach Bryan Carbone at bryan@campussolutionsinc.com.