Promotional Gifts Procure Extra Income for Your Dance School

Teaching dance, gymnastics and other physical arts can be a very competitive business. While promotional gifts are a good way of advertising and making your school more visible in your community, they also can serve another purpose. Selling the items that your students need can add another income stream that will increase your bottom line.

Think about it. Your students are proud to be a member of your school. They’ll happily purchase items that show off their allegiance to you and the commitment they’ve made to be the best under your tutelage. Their parents are a ready market for such things as rucksacks, jackets, hair ties, t-shirts and sports bottles bearing your dance school name and logo. After all, what little girl wouldn’t be thrilled with a jacket bearing the name of her dance school as a holiday or birthday gift?

If you haven’t considered setting up a school store before, here are a few of the most popular promotional gifts for selling to students at dance schools and gymnasiums.

T-shirts
Far and away the most popular promotional gifts with dance and gymnastics students are t-shirts with the name of their school printed across the front. They’re also a good choice as a starting foray into selling promotional gifts to advertise your school and increase your income stream. They’re relatively inexpensive and easy to store. If you invest in a range of two or three colors, many of your students will want more than one – and when they wear them, they’ll be spreading your name around town in a good way.

Rucksacks and Tote Bags
Also high on the list of promotional gifts that dance and gymnastics students love to buy from their school are rucksacks and tote bags with their school name on them. Drawstring rucksacks, travel bags and city bags are ideal for dance school promotions. They come in a broad range of colors, and have a large print area to carry your name. Centrix makes a specific range of travel bags fitted with a zippered shoe compartment that makes them especially attractive and suitable for dance students.

Jackets and Fleeces
Outfit your dance and gymnastics teams for competition with matching fleece warm-up jackets emblazoned with your team or school name. Your students will wear them proudly as a sign of belonging – and your school will reap the benefits in both income from the sale of the jackets and increased publicity for you.

Sports Bottles
Sports bottles make great giveaways at community awareness events, but they’ll also sell well in your school store. They’re among the most inexpensive promotional gifts that you can carry, which makes it easy for your students to buy them for themselves or for each other as gifts. They also make quick and easy stocking stuffers for the holidays when parents are looking for inexpensive and appealing gifts for their kiddies.

There are many more gifts that would be a good fit as promotional gifts to help increase your dance school’s bottom line. Take a look through the catalogue of promotional gifts available at the UK’s largest suppliers of promotional items for more ideas that you can use to promote your business.

Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK's largest online source of promotional gifts and promotional items. He has taken the UK gift market by storm by the application of modern business thinking and the latest search engine marketing techniques. For more details on promotional gifts visit www.ideasbynet.com