Using Promotional Items to Advertise Red Sox
Team
The Red Sox Team is one of the oldest members of the Major League Baseball’s famed American
League Eastern Division. They joined the League back in 1912 just twelve years after the club was originally
founded in 1901. The home of the Red Sox is the Fenway Park. Now even though the Red Sox Team is one of the most
popular Baseball teams in the world promotional items (Werbeartikel) and advertising material (Werbemittel) is
still used to get people including fans and business interested in the team.
When it comes to advertising the Red Sox Team one of the most useful items used are freebies which are usually in
the form of T-shirts, bobble heads, and caps. Usually the advertising of the team is associated with another
business that sponsors the team such as ‘Bank of America’ which will sponsor the team in 2015. This type of
advertising serves the dual purpose of promoting the team as well as effectively drawing people’s attention to the
team.
Promotional items and advertising associated with the Red Sox team aims to increase sales opportunities for various
businesses that sponsor the team. A recent survey showed that people were able to recall a brand name much better
if they had received a promotional product that bore the company’s name as compared to if they had received a print
publication. In the past few years there has been an upsurge in activity in terms of advertising material and
merchandise from the Red Sox team. This has also worked very well in raising the profile of the team both in their
home town of Boston as well as in other parts of America.
Individual team members are also used in various promotional items such as bobble heads. These bobble heads range
from being freebies to collector’s bobble heads costing a few hundred dollars. The objective of these types of
promotional items is to actually raise the profile of the individual player. This in turn increases and retains
people’s interest in the game of Baseball and in particular their loyalty to the Boston Red Sox team.
It is imperative that the promotional items be given out by the Red Sox team not only to target baseball fans but
also target those which are not fans of the game. This can even include immigrants and people who follow other
sporting events. The effect of this will be a growing fan base of the Red Sox team which currently only includes
baseball fans that formally followed other teams
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