| Choosing promotional gifts is always difficult from the | | | | send them to my major customers as well as other |
| vast array on offer both on-line and in the many | | | | members of their teams, which always goes down |
| catalogues available that we are bombarded with. | | | | well as often the workers are forgotten. |
| Here, we look at why promotional pens and printed | | | | I also now had plenty of spare promotional pens left |
| are unrivalled in their value for money. | | | | over that I was able to give out to staff and |
| Each year I found myself looking for the latest | | | | customers if I felt that I needed to send them |
| gimmick or something I thought my customers might | | | | something for certain occasions. |
| like and more importantly actually use or the point is | | | | Rather than trying to be creative and possibly |
| totally wasted. Some years I chose popular | | | | wasting my valuable budget I decided to look at |
| promotional gifts and other years my choice was not | | | | some of the pens on offer and asked for some |
| so well received. | | | | printed pen samples. When they arrived I liked them |
| For the popular gifts they tended to be something | | | | all and was really surprised at the quality. I think the |
| that I couldn't really repeat as many promotional | | | | question to ask yourself is, if you received one of |
| items such as pop up clocks and desk caddies would | | | | these printed pens, would you use it. If the answer is |
| still be with the customers if they had liked them and | | | | yes, then more than likely your customers will too. |
| if they didn't I certainly wouldn't want to send them | | | | The more they use these personalised pens the |
| another one. | | | | more you are getting your message across which |
| Personally, I had always thought promotional pens | | | | after all is what you set out to do. |
| were fairly boring and plain. How wrong I was! The | | | | Last year I chose printed metal pen and pencil sets |
| range is now enormous from the cheapest plastic | | | | and paid a bit extra to have them in a presentation |
| mini pens to high quality metal pens, eco friendly | | | | case, again there is a choice from a plain plastic box |
| pens, fat pens, thin pens, short pens, the list is | | | | to a more luxurious padded box and some of these |
| endless and they all still represent incredible value for | | | | can be personalised too. They looked much more |
| money compared to other branded and personalised | | | | expensive than they actually were and when |
| gifts. | | | | customers asked me where I got them from and |
| I also found that I could increase the number of | | | | who did them for me I knew that they liked them. |
| promotional items that I could order allowing me to | | | | So, why choose promotional pens? Why not! |