Five Ways to Use Promotional Pens

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Promotional pens are one of the most ordered promotional products in the world. They range from inexpensive plastic printed pens to hand out over the counter at community events to sleek, high end engraved pens with titanium barrels presented to award winners at a company dinner. No matter what the occasion, chances are that you’ll find a promotional pen that is the perfect solution for it. Here are five different occasions where promotional pens are the ideal answer.

1. You need a low cost, high selling item to sell in your school store. The price must be low enough for students to afford, but the quality high enough to be used for school tests and papers.
   
   Pick one of the low ranges of promotional pens, printed with your school name. Most of them can be had in your school colors. Even bought in small lots, you’ll pay about £0.20 each, and make twice that in profit from each pen sold. Even at that profit margin, you’re bound to sell out, since students ALWAYS need another pen – and are always pleased to have something with the school name on.

2. You sell office supplies in a business to business market, offering delivery through the post and by truck. You want to include a promotional item with each order that will be used and keep your name on view in your customers’ offices so that they order from you again and again.
   
   If you ship out orders, then you should always include a promotional item in every shipment that leaves your office for theirs. Promotional pens are a great choice for this kind of promotion. They add very little to the shipping weight of the package, they’re bound to be useful to your customers and they’ll be handed out around the office where they might bring even more business your way. (Don’t be cheap with these either – drop in a box of a dozen and you can be sure that they’ll make their way to other purchasers in the company.)

3. You’re looking for a gift to hand out to attendees at a national convention of CEOs in your field. Each attendee has paid a pretty penny to attend, and are used to luxury and high quality items.
   
   Choose name brand metal promotional pens from the Balmain line as commemorative gifts for your conference attendees. The name is associated with luxury writing instruments. The promotional pens can be gift boxed for presentation, and the name of the conference or the conference sponsor discreetly engraved on the pen barrels to become a lasting memory of the occasion.

4. The small agency for which you work has just been invited to take a table at a community fair that is being held in a week’s time. You need a quick promotional item that you can have in hand within five days to hand out to fair attendees.
   
   Promotional pens are often available on short notice for businesses that are caught by surprise. Generally, most promotional product suppliers have several ranges of promotional pens that can be shipped within three days. Printed plastic pens are easy to hand out and will carry your name beyond the fair itself.

5. You need something novel and unique that will carry a promotional message and be popular with a teen and pre-teen population.
   
   Choose a range of novelty promotional pens that are fun and eye-catching. They’re the kind of product that often captures the imagination of a young audience and become a “fad” item that will carry your message for weeks or months to come.

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