Promotional Memory Enhancement and Perfume Promotions

This weekend, I made the comment: "Sweet! If anything, I've got blog material." It's a comment that frequently comes out of my mouth, because I'm a giant nerd and I consistantly find things that I can relate back to promotional products. But as I sit here typing my blog, I seriously can't remember what I was talking about! I tried replaying my weekend, and seeing what exactly happened. This caused a traumatic flashback to the giant cricket that I encountered in my bathroom (I'm not okay with bugs) on Friday night. But this had nothing to do with promotional products. It involved several panicked phone calls to friends, many facebook status updates and eventually thankful relief that my landlord was having an issue with carpenter ants and that a terminex guy magically appeared Saturday morning, but nothing to do with custom imprinted items.

Saturday involved the ridding of the beast, and hanging out with my mom...and THERE IT IS. Just came to me...I not loving Georgio Armani. So after said bug was gone, I ended up going to Lord and Taylor with my mom to get a dress for some thing she was going to. Completely bored by the prospect of dress shopping, I wandered over by the perfume counter. I eventually caved, after trying on three different ones (an event that subsequently gave me a headache) and chose Emporio Armani's new one Diamonds. My mother went with Ralph Lauren's Romance and got a pretty sweet gift with purchase: an embroidered make-up bag, body lotion, body wash and a travel size perfume. I, however, just got perfume. Absolutely no promotional products came with my purchase. Looking back on it, I was slightly annoyed with this. Why does my mother get all the awesome stuff, like one of the printed bags and I get nothing? What's up with that Armani? Do you not value your customers as much as Ralph Lauren values his? Do you not want us toting your logo when we head off on vacation? Do you not want us advertising your brand by giving us something that could give you more business? Even a travel size perfume would have been awesome, because if someone asks what you're wearing, you've got the ability to show them. I'm not schlepping my large bottle of perfume with me to a club on a friday night. 

So yeah, Armani, consider your marketing strategy because I'm much more adept to publicizing your delicious smelling perfume when I've been given at least a smidgen of an incentive. Side by side comparision with Ralph...he wins hands down. And I know that I've mentioned your product name in this blog, but consider this a freebie.