Cheap Promotional Gift Ideas
Key Points
- Low-cost promotional items like pens, stickers, and stationery help maximise reach without putting pressure on your budget.
- It’s worth mixing everyday essentials with small personalised gifts to add variety while keeping overall costs manageable.
- Health and wellbeing items can also be a practical choice, especially when they align with current needs and are easy to distribute in bulk.
Best Cheap Giveaways for Brands
The best cheap promotional gifts are practical, easy to distribute and relevant to recipients, with enough branding space to display your logo clearly. Items under $5 work particularly well when you need merchandise for a large audience. They suit:
- Trade shows and expos
- Conferences
- University events
- Fundraisers
- Sporting events
- Community programs
- Product launches
- Direct-mail campaigns
Low cost does not have to mean low value. Cubic Promote’s current under-$5 range includes products such as mints, wristbands, stickers, and other small branded items for bulk campaigns.
Which low-cost items should you consider?
Start with products recipients can immediately understand and use, then compare branding space, portability, and suitability for your campaign.
Stationery Items
Pens, sticky notes and similar stationery suit large campaigns because recipients already know how to use them and can keep them at work or home. Stationery also gives buyers plenty of choice across different budgets. For example, Cubic Promote currently lists Australian-made sticky notes from around the lower end of its promotional merchandise range.
Mary Aguirre-Cruz, one of our account managers, loves to recommend these to her clients because they’re cost-effective, plus, when you choose the right item, they can resonate with your recipients. According to her, most clients love sticky note shapes (shaped based on the industry) because they’re cheap and practical.
Wellness items
If you’re after something a little more “special” and a little less corporate, why not go for personalised wellness items? These items are perfect for hospitality industries and beauty or wellness salons. Some of our best-selling wellness items are lip balms and seedsticks. If you have more budget to spare, Shealeigh Keeney, one of our account managers, recommends you go for scented candles.
Tech Giveaways
While tech giveaways are generally expensive, we have a few options that are not! Swami Rossat, one of our account managers, mentioned that based on his experience attending trade shows and events in Sydney, the giveaways are always tech items. These items include:
- Microfibre cloths
- Charging cables
- Mobile accessories like screen cleaners and phone straps
What Do I Personally Recommend
As for my clients, I always take the time to research what they do before suggesting the merch. If they’re into health and wellness, I go for stress balls. Stress balls in different shapes are also perfect for different industries. A second favourite of mine would be jelly beans or mints. We have options below $5 that you can order in bulk.
Ready to Order?
If you’re still undecided on what merch to order, we have a range of items under $5 to help provide more options. Just contact our account manager to get free recommendations and a free quote, too!
