Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Freebies! (Did I get your attention?)

f you attend fairs and the like, you’ve no doubt noticed that those booths with the coolest freebies tend to get all of the attention. I’ve just begun doing more and more of these kinds of things and you can imagine my surprise when I showed up to my first event without so much as a customized pencil on my table. Needless to say, I had to be a little more, well, venturesome than normal to be noticed.

So now that I’ve learned my lesson, I’ve been looking around at some possible freebie purchases. I found a number of web sites that seem to have some good potential products that may be of use to you too…