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Market Your Company with Promotional Pens and Pencils

How to Market Your Company with Promotional Pens and Pencils

Think about the writing instruments in your purse or pocket. Are some of them promotional pens or custom pencils? Chances are you said yes. At a time when many people are pinching their pennies, who can resist pocketing a complimentary custom pen? Indeed, we’re living in a “pen-pinching” economy, but this translates into a creative marketing opportunity for your company.
Promotional pens and custom pencils serve as a permanent business card that is useful to your target audience. These branded writing instruments can be used by your company to grab attention, boost sales, say thank you, raise awareness, promote a campaign and spread the word about your cause or brand.
Promotional Pens and Pencils are Versatile
Customized writing instruments help fill a variety of advertising needs, and they can become an integral part of every marketing manager’s arsenal. Their creative applications are endless. As promotional products, custom writing instruments offer outstanding utility, which is why they are so popular.
While many companies and organizations use promotional pens and custom pencils as giveaways at trade shows, health fairs and special events, they can also be used as business gifts that have lasting value because of their usefulness. Offering a promotional pen or pencil is a nice way of saying “thank you” to clients and customers.
Marketing with Promotional Pens & Pencils
Health care organizations – such as emergency clinics, hospitals, doctors’ offices or dentistry practices – often use promotional pens or custom pencils as a permanent business card by imprinting their contact information on the barrel as a reference for patients.  Additionally, custom pens and pencils can be attached to clipboards, so after patients fill out paperwork, they’ll have a permanent reminder of your organization.
Businesses that host training sessions or conferences often include BIC custom pens (BIC Clic Stic pen pictured above) with the registration packet given to attendees when they arrive. BIC custom pens are light and portable, making them popular items at trade show booths. They can be fully customized by imprinting  your company’s name, slogan, logo and contact information for very little cost. The BIC name on the pens guarantees dependability and quality.
If you own a local business, especially a restaurant or bar, you might want give your servers multiple pens with your logo. Wait staff will take them gratefully since customers often accidentally pocket the logo pens that arrive with the bill. This way they don’t have to worry when your customers take your pens out the door with them and you get more brand exposure.
Companies and organizations can increase their reach at trade shows, church services and other events that attract large audiences through promotional pens and pencils. Since everyone loves a free pen or pencil, these logo writing instruments make the perfect giveaway.
On the other hand, if your clients tend to be C-level executives, you might want to consider purchasing high-end writing instruments such as the custom Callaway pens pictured above that these executives will retain due to their perceived value and quality. Likewise, banks, lending institutions and law firms typically purchase executive-quality promotional pens to use during contract negotiations.
Educational institutions such as schools, universities and learning centers often purchase custom pencils to give to students or clients who are testing.
There is no limit to the ways promotional pens and custom pencils can be used to market your company or organization.

Encourage Employees to Bring their Lunch to Work

Why You Should Encourage Employees to Bring their Lunch to Work

With the growing cost of health care, many companies are looking at creative ways to save money on their insurance premiums – from asking employees to pay a greater percentage  of the insurance premium to encouraging employees to make key lifestyle changes.

Today, more companies are emphasizing the importance of prevention. They are attempting to motivate employees to lose weight, quit smoking and get physically active by offering a variety of incentives – financial and otherwise.
Initiating a company-sponsored wellness program benefits both the employer and employee. This is why companies are giving employees the tools they need to succeed at achieving better health.
Start a Take Your Lunch to Work Campaign
One wellness program to consider is a “take your lunch to work” campaign. The benefits of bringing your lunch to work are numerous. Not only will employees save money on the cost of eating out every day, they will save calories, too. Those who “brown bag” their lunch are able to control the ingredients they are eating and keep portion sizes modest.
When you eat out, you may be tempted to order something fattening and you will probably also be served a gigantic portion – enough for two people – ensuring weight gain instead of weight loss. You may also opt for fast food when pressed for time – an even bigger threat to your health and body image.
Experts say that bringing your lunch to work can reduce your weekly lunch cost by 80 percent, with an annual savings of $2,000.
Use Personalized Lunch Bags as Employee Incentives
A good way to initiate a “bring your lunch to work” campaign is by incentivizing employees with personalized lunch bags and promotional cooler bags. These customized promotional bags have a large enough imprint area to include a company logo and campaign slogan. You might also include a flyer that explains the benefits of taking your lunch to work.
Custom lunch bags and promotional cooler bags come in a variety of different colors and price points, offering flexibility to fit any budget. Employees will appreciate receiving the attractively designed, logo’d promotional items and may indeed try them out!
Customized cooler bags are also great for summer, making the perfect accompaniment to a trip to the beach or pool. These outdoor activities encourage an active lifestyle. So the next time you plan a wellness campaign, don’t forget to order personalized lunch bags and promo cooler bags – your employees will thank you!
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Awesome designs at the lowest price for the Holidays... Please visit www.PROMO-TED.com Click the picture and type the item number above in the keyword field for more product information, to place an order, or request a quote. For all Promotional Product sales and service visit Ted's Promotions at...   Check out my new revamped website, for more AWESOME Promo Products, a more user friendly interface, shopping cart service, new branded Ted boutique websites, and much more... So please book mark www.PROMO-TED.com in your web browser as always thanks for your continued support TL Please let me know what you think on Facebook.   Become a fan of Ted's Promotions on Facebook.   ***Testimonials*** Contact Ted for more info.   Pricing above does not include screen/setup, sales tax, or freight charges to produce your custom order. Other additional charges may also be needed for artwork, proofs, drop shipments, personalization or PMS color matches. Pricing and products are subject to availability. Ted will contact you personally to discuss your request   TED CAN HELP WITH RUSH PRODUCTION, SPECIAL PRICING, PROMO IDEAS AND PROGRAMS   Remember PROMO-TED.com is the Promo-Idea Place. I have more for you than just Promo-Products, I have the Ideas that make those products work for you. Call or e-mail me anytime to discuss how we can reach your business goals with a creative promotion.   Guaranteed On-Time Delivery!!! and Ted's exceptional personal service!!! For any Questions Please Contact: Ted Lehman Ted's Promotions Inc. Phone: 770-972-8081   Fax: 770-573-3141 Contact Ted

Everything you need to know about buying USB Flash Drives....

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The Most Competitive USB, Flash Drive Solutions Available! Ted's Promotions and HALO Branded Solutions exclusive solution that provides the greatest selection and most aggressive price points on one of the "hottest" products in our industry the past few years--USB Flash Drives. The USB's are manufactured, decorated and shipped directly from our facility in China to you.  Therefore, rush orders are not possible.  However, pricing includes all freight.  Please consider both of these factors when you compare pricing to other industry USB sources.   Contact Ted for specific pricing and quotes. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT USB FLASH DRIVES

Names and Capacities Flash drives are also known as USB drives, Thumb drives, Pen Drives, and Jump drives. They range in memory capacity from 32 Mb to 64 GB with the maximum capacity increasing every year. Most people order 1-2 GB, though that will increase to 4 GB as prices drop.

What's Inside a Flash Drive? 1. Flash memory chip a. This is the memory component; the equivalent of a hard drive on a computer b. Manufactured by a limited number of huge companies (Toshiba, Samsung, Hynix, Intel, etc.) c. A flash memory chip manufacturing facility costs roughly $1 Billion to build d. No flash chips are manufactured in China or in the US although some are assembled in China 2. Controller or PCB board a. Produced in China, this "Brain" of the device has the memory chip soldered to it b. Similar to the processor on a computer 3. Case or Body a. This is the pretty outside cover that the client sees b. Produced in China by a large number of manufacturers c. Except for proprietary designs, all "China Manufacturers" have access to the same generic casings

If the Chips Aren't Made In China What Does a Chinese Manufacturer Do? 1. Buys the components a. Buy chips, controllers and casings from quality sources 2. Assembles the components -A Chinese Flash Drive factory is essentially an assembly plant a. Chips are soldered to controllers b. Data is loaded c. Controller/chip combo is assembled into casings 3. Prints logos on the casings a. This is often done by nearby factories that specialize in screen printing, pad printing, embossing, and/or laser engraving 4. QUALITY CONTROL!!! a. We test 100% of the electronic components of each of our drives 5 times i. 100% of incoming tier 1 chips are tested ii. After soldering to controller we test 100% of the assemblies iii. If there is a data load, we test 100% again iv. 100% of drives are tested before being packaged   For orders over 10k pieces a statistically valid sample is tested v. 100% of logos are checked as drives are hand-inserted into individual boxes

Why Is Pricing So Volatile? Flash memory chips are a pure commodity – like corn, oil, or pork bellies. They are bought and sold the same way with the price varying widely based on market demand and production controls. If Apple suddenly buys 10 million 4 GB chips for a new iPod, the reduction in supply makes prices skyrocket. In 2008-9, prices dropped so low that Samsung started reducing production in an engineered effort to increase unit prices, which worked quite well much to the dismay of the premiums industry. Fortunately 2010 has seen more reasonable price fluctuations.

What Are the Different Grades of Flash?

For our purposes, there is "Grade A" or "Tier 1" memory chips and then there is everything else.

Flash chip manufacturers test each production run of their flash modules and resell problematic batches as "black" flash, so called because the company's name is usually blacked out on the chip. The price is lower but failure rates are high. You can also buy "upgraded" flash modules. They are programmed so that when you put them in a computer the computer will make it look like they have more memory than they have.

For example, a 256 Mb drive can be upgraded to appear as if it is a 2 GB drive. However it will still hold only 256 Mb of data.If you try to add more data it will overwrite existing data or tell you the drive is full. Suppliers also sell "recycled flash" that has been recovered from discarded or faulty devices then re-soldered to a PCB board. The failure rate on recycled flash is understandably very high.


The big problem in the flash drive world is that unless you have special testing software, an engineering degree and can open the casing to investigate, you don't know what is inside the drive you are buying!! That is why we buy from a factory that has unparalleled Quality Control and that we visit frequently.

 

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