They don’t contain any pigments or waxes that apply color and texture to your lips, but they are compact and fashionable promotional pens that people can use anywhere. Companies looking to market specifically to female audiences could use these pens to spread their message and build their brand recognition. Just think of all the bonus publicity you’ll get from people who confuse the pen for their lipstick as they rummage through their purses.
Remember that “rubber pencil” trick your uncle used to pull on you by holding the pencil loosely in one hand and bouncing it up and down to make the pencil seem to flop and bend as if made of rubber? Well bendable pens offer an actually flexible writing utensil.
People enjoy fiddling with something at their desks or while they’re staring at their computer monitors to help them relieve some stress and to distract themselves from any potentially laborious and mundane task at hand. While promotional desktop games offer a more direct distraction, desktop toys often only serve one purpose-to entertain. However, imprinted bendable pens can offer writers a more enjoyable writing experience. Instead of dropping their pens when they’re suffering a case of writer’s block, writers can distract themselves by creating different shapes with their pens. Bendable pens are typically made of a flat-on-one-side, flexible plastic with a soft texture, allowing them to bend into any shape. They make great giveaways for members of the creative or medical professions.
Whatever the reason may be, whether they’re afraid of the ink leaking on to their shirts or whether they prefer shirts without front pockets, people rarely carry pens in their shirt pockets any more. Nonetheless, the need for a handy writing utensil at all times still exists. While pens are often the last things on people’s minds as they’re leaving for meetings and presentations, forgetting to bring a pen to any business meeting without an easily accessible pen often leaves people feeling unprepared. However, promotional wallet card pens offer a great solution to this problem.
Wallet pen cards ensures that recipients will always have a pen by their side, and the gift is small and thing enough to slide into and out of a credit card holding compartment like any other card. It also helps to reinforce the reliability of your company’s services as they will be reminded of your company every time they reach into their wallet.
Promotional compass pens make useful gifts for people who enjoy the great outdoors. While they may not be practical for office use, they can be handy when recipients are trying to navigate themselves while taking a trip to the woods or fishing on a boat. They are also very convenient with clips that can attach to belt loops and zipper pulls. Some pens feature additional flexibility with carabiners that allow you to clip the pen on to a lanyard to create an easily accessible hanging pen. They are great bait for trade show booths, as visitors will be drawn to the novelty of the giveaway. Compass pens are perfect giveaways for scavenger hunts and orienteering competitions also.
This might be the worst promotional product for belonephobics, patients with a fear of needles, but it does an unbelievable job of associating MedTronic with the medical technology industry. The fact that this promotional pen resembles a syringe will definitely remind writers of MedTronic every time they pick up that pen. MedTronic could have just as easily opted for imprinted pillboxes or custom sticky notes for medical offices, but this syringe pen definitely leaves an impression.
Building upon my last post on eco-friendly pens, promotional pens made of biodegradable corn starch offer a better alternative to their less eco-friendly counterparts. You don’t lose any quality or style by opting for corn starch pens, and giving away these pens will help people realize that you are committed to implementing environmentally sustainable practices and that you have a strong sense of corporate social responsibility.
We often receive plastic promotional pens and brass pens as part of corporate pen gift sets, but we rarely come across wooden promotional pens. However, with everyone going green and companies giving out eco-friendly promotional products left and right, shouldn’t ecological pens made of recycled materials be the next step? These pens are typically made of 100% post-consumer recycled paper, recycled plastic, and wood. It’s a simple alternative to today’s multifunction, bright-barreled pens.
Happy Birthday Ballpoint Pen! On this day in 1935, Hungarian brothers, Laszlo and Georg Biro invented you and what’s now one of the world’s most common writing instruments.
They weren’t the creators of a “new” pen, but they built upon the ideas of the ballpoint pen’s predecessors. Older models were ineffective and unsuccessful because of there were major problems with the ink - if the ink was thin the pens leaked, and if it was too thick, they clogged. Depending on the temperature, the pen would sometimes do both. The Biros’ new model relied on “capillsry action” rather than gravity to feed the ink. The “ball” at the end of the pen acted like a metal sponge, allowing ink to flow more smoothly to the ball and permitting writers to hold the pen at a slant rather than straight up.
While the ballpoint pen has undergone multiple modifications, the Biros have been credited with developing the prototype of our beloved writing utensil. The novelty of the ballpoint pen allowed for its first great success in October 1945 when New York’s Gimbles Department Store sold its entire stock of 10,000 pens at $12.50 each ($145 adjusted for inflation) in its first day of sales after issuing and ad describing the pen as a “fantastic… miraculous fountain pen … guaranteed to write for two years without refilling!”
Thanks Biro brothers! Without you and your innovative drive, I wouldn’t have any promotional pens to collect.
Many companies use ordinary promotional pens to remind their clients of their products and services, but after a while, all of these promotional pens start looking alike. Gimmicky, promotional multifunction pens have a better chance of standing out among the rest.
Promotional puzzle pens look to be great promotional items because it combines the idea of custom imprinted desktop games with the utility of a pen. It starts out with all of the same colors in a row, and you can rotate and slide the six segmented rows of puzzles pieces around to mix up the colors. You can imprint your name on the rotating tiles, and it’ll remind them of your company every time they need a short break to distract themselves and recharge.
I’ve seen plenty of promotional multifunction pens, but this highlighter pen seems like it would be uncomfortable to use as a highlighter. Highlighter pens with functions on each side typically have the clips on the highlighter cap to provide a more comfortable grip, but because the clip is part of the barrel on this pen, writers would be forced to use a more awkward grip.
This pen would be fine if it were just a pen, but its incovenient placement of its clip makes this a terrible promotional product because nobody would wants to use the uncomfortable highlighter. The design could be drastically improved if they moved the clip on to the cap of the highlighter. Companies considering this highlighter pen would be better served with more novel and comfortable multifunction pens, such as custom multi-tool pens and imprinted USB pen drives. It’s always important to recognize that comfort is just as important as functionality with any promotional product.