Archive for September, 2010

Promotional Gift Pens for Christmas

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Sit back, relax, and imagine a promotional gift pen campaign that spreads word about your company brand and has prospective clients thanking you. That’s right, gone are the days of promotional campaigns that go straight to the waste bin. Fine quality promotional gift pens are likely to remain with your recipients for a long time coming, adding real value to their lives while at the same time gaining exposure for your business.

Prospective Customers

In the few months leading up to Christmas, many business owners and marketing executives will be tasked with purchasing promotional gifts for prospective customers. While there are many options available on today’s market, engraved pens are and option with which you cannot go wrong.

Promotional Parker Pens, promotional Cross Pens and promotional Lamy Pens are likely to reflect positively on your company brand, as they are well-respected for both their performance and elegance. Get your foot in the door with hard-to-reach prospective customers without ever having to say a single word.

Employees

Selecting promotional gifts for employees can be a difficult task. You want to present a gift that will make your staff members feel appreciated by and connected to the company, while remaining in your budget and representing your company brand. Printed pens and top quality refills fit the bill on all counts, providing your employees with a useful tool that couples as a piece of fashionable iconography.

Executive gift pens such as promotional Lamy Pens have a high perceived value and thus, are likely to serve as business gifts that your recipients really value. In addition, every time one of your employees uses their pens out in public, they will be spreading your company message far and wide.

Valued Clients

Competition is fierce these days across virtually every market and it is imperative that you frequently remind your customers of your stellar products, services and customer service levels. Christmas is a terrific time to reopen lines of communication with clients that may have fallen through the cracks or been inactive for a period.

Promotional desktop gifts such as promotional pen sets are great promotional gift ideas for customers, as they will remain in plain sight of and in active use by your recipients, day after day. Make sure to select promotional pens that have high aesthetic appeal, so that your recipients will be impressed with your company’s style and eager to use their pens in public on a regular basis.

Can you think of a better Christmas gift idea than high quality promotional pens?

By Dan Toombs

Luxurious Promotional Gift Pens for Christmas

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

When you are considering what to give out as promotional gifts for the holidays, you may want to think about gift pens. Promotional gift pens are a great idea to give out as gifts to your employees, customers and business contacts. They are inexpensive, yet useful, and can be given away to all your contacts.

Why Promotional Pens?

Giving out pens as a promotional product is a smart idea for many reasons. Think about it- everyone uses pens. It is a gift that will be in use no matter what, and no matter who you give it to. Promotional pens can be used as part of a business gift package, along with other items, such as notepads, coffee cups, or just about anything that can be used in an office. Your company name and other details will be on the pens, so that your business associates and others will always have your information, literally at their fingertips! Plus, pens get passed around the office so much, so everyone will have a chance to see your companies information.

Business gift pens are a great idea to promote your business or company, and to get your name known.

What Can Be Put on Them?

When you order promotional gift pens, you can basically design your own pen to suit your budget and needs. You can choose from a variety of different colours and styles, and then choose what exactly you want written on the pen. For example, some people want just their company name and number on their promotional gift pens. Others may opt for a little more, such as adding the address of the company and the website. You can choose from metal or plastic pens, to pens that even have gadgets on them, such as a light or a small pen knife! You can design your own gift pens to suit the needs of your business, and help make a name for yourself.

Buy in Bulk

You will get the best deals when you buy your promotional engraved pens in bulk online. Typically with companies, the more that you buy, the better price they will give you. Promotional pens are an inexpensive idea to help promote your business, so they are great for the company that may be on the rise and does not have the biggest budget to work with. Consider promotional pens today to help get your company recognised!

Build your Brand This Holiday Season with IT Items

Friday, September 17th, 2010
Credit card usb flash drives

Credit card sized USB FlashDrive. Call for up to date prices.

Looking for ways to build your brand this holiday season for your tech-savvy customers? One way to do that is to give gifts with your company’s logo on them that will be prominently displayed in your clients’ or customers’ office. When thinking about your office gifts this year, consider IT themed gifts that are sure to be used each day by your existing and future customers. Some ideas are below.

USB Flash Drives
These days, everyone is on the go and needs to carry electronic files with them. Most people do this by saving their files to a USB Flash drive that they can take from one computer to the next. Therefore, what better way to ensure that your logo is often in front of your clients and customers than giving them promotional USB Flash Drives with your logo on them? They are nice and useful gifts that will surely please your customers!

Portable Mouse and Mouse Pad
For those customers you have who travel a lot and spend a lot of time in airports and hotels, a useful gift would be a portable mouse and mouse pad that brags your logo. When using a laptop, the convenience of having a real mouse and mouse pad can lead to more productivity, and what better way to get in front of your customers than to put a logo on a convenient tool?

Laptop Bags
If many of your customers carry their laptops when they travel, it would be convenient for them to have a laptop bag to protect their machine. Putting a logo on a laptop sleeve will not only keep your logo and your brand top of mind to your customer, but also it will be seen a lot in the airport as your customers are traveling. Therefore, a branded laptop sleeve is a nice choice for a gift.

Promotional USB Desktop Fan
There are lots of devices that plug into a standard USB drive on many desktop and laptop computers. Therefore, why not give one of these neat and useful devices as your holiday gift this year? Promotional desktop USB fans are useful to keep your customers comfortable in the office. Also, you could get a light up mousepad that plugs into a USB port as well. There are other options for USB devices that go on a desktop and can be quite useful.

As you can see, there are lots of ways to give IT-themed promotional desktop and travel gifts that will be seen a lot by not only your own existing customers, but also potential clients as your customers are traveling for business or pleasure. Giving an IT-themed promotional desktop item is one way to build your brand and gain the favour of your customers. Don’t you think that your customers will appreciate all of these items? Happy Shopping!

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Desktop Gifts-Top Quality Mouse Mats Work Best

Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Promotional Mouse Mats

Promotional Mouse Mats Cost Less at CompuGift!

Have you ever wondered which promotional items are the most effective? If so, rest assured that there isn’t one right answer.

The fact is, most promotional items are useful in one way or another. Depending upon the audience you are trying to appeal to, you may or may not want to choose a specific promotional item. For instance, a bank would never give out dog whistles as promotional gifts, as it just wouldn’t make sense. However, if the bank were to give out promotional pens, it would be well received, as pens relate to banking. One of the best things that any business can give out as a promotional desktop gift is the branded mouse mat.

Desktop gifts such as promotional logo printed mouse mats can make excellent promotional items, as they are used often. Anyone who works in an office environment in front of a computer utilizes mouse mats throughout the day, and by giving out one that is of the highest quality, you can ensure that it will actually get used. Most office provide their employees with mouse mats that are functional, yet economical and thus not usually of very high quality. If you can produce a mouse mat that is of high quality, people will throw away their old ones in a heartbeat.

Promotional items are crucially important to promoting your bran, and should not be overlooked. A branded mouse mat is the perfect way to get your company image ingrained into someone’s head, as they will see the image a number of times throughout the day. Eventually, it will become part of their subconscious mind, with the idea in mind that this will result in more sales and brand awareness.

As long as the mouse mat you produce is of high quality, chances are it will stick around for quite a while. Whether it stays in the possession of a single person or it gets past around throughout the marketplace, the end result is that your company’s image will be viewed on a consistent basis, hopefully by a wide variety of people.

Many people avoid promotional gifts because they feel as if they will be too expensive to produce. The fact is, promotional items can usually be purchased inexpensively, either in bulk or in small quantities. Utilizing promotional items is actually one of the least expensive marketing techniques out there, and its effectiveness should not be overlooked, no matter what the situation.

So what are you waiting for? Incorporate mouse mats into your promotional campaign today!

By Dan Toombs

3 IT Themed Gift Ideas for Promoting Your Business

Thursday, September 16th, 2010
promotional usb hubs

Promotional USB hubs make idea business gifts for the desktop

If your company is gearing up to launch a seasonal advertising campaign, you may want to consider promotional desktop gifts with an IT Theme. These items make terrific Christmas gifts, as they add real value to the lives of your recipients, while at the same time promoting your company brand. 3 IT themed promotional gift ideas in particular are likely to be appreciated by prospective customers and valued customers across a broad range of consumer demographics.

USB Flash Drives

Promotional USB flash drives make phenomenal Christmas presents that are both useful and affordable to purchase in bulk. Imprint the surface of each USB drive with your company logo and contact information, in order to garner a great deal of exposure for your company brand.

In addition, promotional USB memory sticks can be loaded with a flash presentation file that will pop up automatically the first time one of your recipients uses it in their computer system. This gives your company a terrific opportunity to promote new services, products lines or promotions.

Digital Photo Frames

Digital photo frames make terrific promotional gifts for employees as well as well-received promotional gifts for customers. Bestow a gift that will serve your recipients well for many months and years to come, displaying their favorite photographs for all to see. Be sure to emblazon your company logo and contact information on the front of each digital photo frame you distribute, so that your advertising campaign can maximize your overall Return on Investment (ROI).

You may also wish to load your company info into the first ‘frame’ of the digital photo frame. This frame will pop up the first time your recipients use their photo frames, and they can simply erase the frame when they are ready to load their own pictures onto the device. In this manner, your promotional digital photo frames can garner you additional company exposure.

Promotional USB Desk Fans

These promotional desktop gifts are likely to be big hits as business gifts for prospective clients as well as current customers and employees.

USB fan

Portable USB Hub and Fan

Functional and fashionable, these promotional desktop gifts will sit in a prominent place on your recipients’ desks, touting your company message for every single passerby.

While these 3 IT themed gifts can give you a great idea of where to start in your purchasing for the upcoming Christmas season, a wide world of other IT promotional items exists for purchase and distribution.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Desktop Gifts for Clients and Employees

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
4 port USB hubs

Our Turtle 4 port USB hub is proving to be a bit hit!

Have you ever received a promotional gift during the Christmas season?

Thousands of businesses each year decide to use promotional gifts, which they send out to employees and to their clients. Chances are very good that you’ve received some sort of promotional desktop gift during your professional life. You may have received a personalised USB hub, mouse mats  or even something simple but needed  like a promotional coffee mug.

The fact is that promotional products are sent out  each Christmas season because they are extremely effective promotional tools. The companies that use promotional merchandise for customers and employees during the holiday season see an instant return on their investment and often see the benefits of promotional Christmas gifts for years to come.

This is especially true for companies that use promotional desktop gifts designed for computer users.

These days, nearly every office uses computers and nearly every person with a desk job works at a computer for hours out of each day. The right promotional items can make a big difference, as they’ll see and work with them every day. A promotional USB flash drive, for instance, will make an immediate impression on customers, and they’ll often begin using them on a day to day basis. As long as the flash drive is working, your company’s name will be quite literally right at the client’s fingertips.

It is, of course, important to choose good quality promotional gifts. This is especially true for computer items, which contain delicate electronics. While it’s possible to find promotional desktop gifts that are cheaply produced, always go for quality.

Have you ever bought a USB hub or another computer device that lasted for years? These types of devices are obviously much more useful than cheap devices that break right out of the box, and they foster much more good will when used as a promotional gift.

The Christmas season is a great time to market your company, and promotional items are a great way to do this affordably and effectively. You’ll be spreading the good cheer of the season while improving name recognition among your clients and improving employee morale.

Promotional desktop gifts are a fantastic way to market effectively for years to come, and an obvious buy for any business that believes in the power of good customer and employee contact. Remember, you’ve received promotional Christmas gifts in the past–shouldn’t you use the same effective methods for your business?

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Desktop Gifts at the Coffee Shop and Ice Cream Parlour

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Desktop gifts

Promotional desktop gifts can be personalised to match your corporate image.

How cool is this? I’m sitting at my local coffee shop on a Sunday afternoon typing this article on my new iPad. I’m not implying that I am some sort of cool individual but it’s the setting. How many of you could have imagined working outside the office like this just ten years ago?

Now I can look around and their are at least ten other people, just like me working at their favourite daytime hangout and it is even busier during the work week! Every day people are going to their favourite haunts to work and socialise in a way that was never before possible.

New times call for new types of promotions. The coffee house and even ice cream parlour is becoming an office outside the office. These establishments’ new kudos as the place to be and work have made them so popular that people want to take a piece of them back to the office and home. The great thing is they often do so in the form of promotional items and promotional desktop gifts.

Case in point, Ben and Jerry’s ice cream recently put together an amazing collection of promotional desktop gifts that anyone would want to have and use as their own. The collection included a blue Senator Challenger Icy pen and a green Senator Akzento pen. Both were printed with their logo.

In addition to these very popular promotional plastic pens, the desktop collection included a blue A5 soft feel Skuba folder and pad that was printed digitally for exceptional good colour quality.

Ben & Jerry’s also included sticky note cases in Skuba material and a digitally printed promotional mug. The result was amazing and really something to behold.

You can have this too for your business.

Have you ever considered how people view your establishment or perhaps how you would like them to see your business? Using good quality promotional gifts can go a long way toward building that ideal picture!

You don’t need to just purchase off the shelf products. You can have your desktop giveaways colour matched so that they look as though they were made with your business in mind.

So what are you waiting for. All of these top quality gifts are available at CompuGift. Samples are no problem! We would love to help you promote your business in this unique way just as Ben and Jerry’s did!

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Wallets for Promoting Your Business This Christmas

Monday, September 13th, 2010
Nappa travel Wallets

Promotional travel wallets make top quality business gifts

One of the most useful promotional gifts I ever received was a promotional travel wallet. I was travelling with a group of competitors to visit a supplier in Amsterdam. The supplier had invited us all over to see their facilities and wanted us to have top quality leather promotional travel wallets for our flight.

The great thing is, that was eight years ago and I still have the same travel wallet which I use whenever I travel. It still looks like new and really comes in handy when I travel for business or with my family. My suppliers logo is tastefully embossed on the front which was a wise brand building move on their part.

Now, every time I use the wallet I see their logo. If I have a customer who requires promotional wallets I think of my supplier. If I want to purchase a nice Christmas gift for my employees I think of that supplier even if I am not looking for promotional wallets.

Why? That’s easy! That supplier gave me a good quality leather gift. They didn’t have to do this. Simply inviting me to see their warehousing facilities and putting me up in a nice hotel and buying dinner was surely enough. But the bonus gift wallet has kept their brand in my thoughts ever since.

You may like to take advantage of these top promotional gifts to promote your own brand. Promotional wallets may not be the most

Wallets

We supply promotional wallets in many size, shapes and materials

eye-catching and fun gifts on the planet but they are useful. Useful gifts promote brands better than other more gimmicky gifts

You will find wallets of all sizes. Some are simple card size wallets. There are also many popular billfold styles out there. Promotional wallets are manufactured in different grades of leather as well as PVC and PU leather-like materials. Which you choose will be down to your budget and/or personal preferences. There are many plastic wallets on the market that look quite trendy and fresh.

If this promotional gift idea appeals to you, why not look around for possible promotional wallets and request a few samples. Pictures are usually quite good but there is no substitute to holding an executive promotional gifts like this in your hand. Test it for quality. See if the promotional wallets you like on the page are indeed the gifts you want to promote your business.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Desktop Gifts for the Computer IT Industry

Sunday, September 12th, 2010
apple desktop design

The Apple designed desktop gifts

Can promotional gifts be different from industry to industry? I mean what makes an IT desktop gift different to say a banking industry desktop gift or a desk item for the financial industry?

In truth, the promotional products do not need to be all that different but often the brand and how it is presented is very different from industry to industry.

Case in point – Apple computers recently put together a very attractive and from what I hear very successful desktop gift campaign. The selection included an A5 and A4 conference folder. Both were in what is called a Scuba PVC that is available in some quite exciting and ‘in’ colours. In the case of Apple, they chose a light green and a light blue. The conference folders were then printed with a cool design of a man listening to an iPod and of course the Apple logo.

Having found the perfect colour for their promotion, colours that look liked they were designed for an IT brand, they then had Pantone matched mugs printed with the Apple logo. Apple also had two Senator Skeye Icy transparent blacks pens personalised with the Apple logo to match the blue folders.

The selection looked fantastic! I have seen few desktop gift sets that look so good. The good news is you can have this for your business too.

Regardless of the size of your company, you can have a personalised desktop gift set colour coordinated and pantone matched that will make you look like you are a leader in your industry.

Print the promotional gifts with IT themed designs and your logo and watch as you customers begin to decorate their offices with your top quality branded products.

Think about it for a minute… What is your brand? How do people see you or perhaps the better question would be how do you want to be seen? Products such as these will help build that perfect picture.

Promotional desktop gifts are ideal business gifts for customers and employees. If you have a shop or business where your customers come often you may want to offer them as competition gifts or perhaps even sell them for profit. Don’t forget to order enough to decorate and brand your own office.

Would you like us to design a desktop gift set perfect for your IT company. We’ve done it many times before and we can do it for you. Contact us today on 01642 782455.

By Dan Toombs

Promotional Mugs-6 Popular Ways to Use Them to Promote Your Business

Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Marrow mugs

The popular Marrow mug is a best seller

Promotional mugs are amazing low cost promotional tools once you get them into your customers’ hands. Every day  in the UK we take on average five coffee/tea breaks each and every day at work.  Get that mug into your target customers’ hands and you could be enjoying free promotions each and every day for months if not years. Here I will show you how mugs are given away by many of my customers. I hope his helps you to take advantage of these truly remarkable promoional gifts.

Not all of these ideas will be possible for you but a few could be just the ideas you need.


Hand Promotional  Mugs Out Over The Counter

If you have a shop or business where your customer come regularly, serve them a cup of coffee in your promotional mugs. When they leave, make sure they take a new one away in decorative packaging as a gift. They will love you for it.

Promotional latte Mugs

You cannot go wrong with our range of promotional lattel mugs!will love your for it.


Give Them Away as Social Media Gifts

We cannot all afford to send thousands of mugs out to all of our customers. So why not use them to entice your Facebook Like Page followers or Blog subscribers? Many businesses are doing this now and it works wonders.


Use Mugs in the Company Board Room

If you have frequest visitors or customers you are trying to impress, made sure your board room is stacked with different mugs depending on your visitors’ drink of choice. There are latte mugs, expresso mugs and china tea mugs just waiting for your logo. These branded items will give your company the look you want.


Hand Coffee Mugs Our at Trade Shows

Anyone who has attended a trade show or two will have seen the stacks of attractive mugs donning the stands of exhibitors large and small. Promotional mugs are traffic magnets. You will get people to your stand and that is where the selling begins.


Sell Promotional Mugs

Promotional photo mugs and other mugs are ideal for gift shops and popular restaurants. If you run a popular hang out or shop in a tourist destination, make sure you have some carefully thought out mugs with designs people will want to take home on your sales shelves!


Charities and Special Causes

Giving promotional branded mugs away to people who support your cause, either through donations or participation in organised events is an excellent way of saying thank you while promoting your cause.

Can you think of any other ways to hand out promotional mugs? There are so many different types from plastic outdoor mugs to the highest quality china. Go ahead… Ask for a few samples and take advantage of these eye-catching and useful promotional gifts!

By Dan  Toombs

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