Everyone and I think almost anyone in this world can instantly tell what a pen is. Has been used as a writing instrument for centuries, pen has contributed a lot especially in relaying information and knowledge to people. Despite the introduction of internet where now people can write online, pen is still used in numerous sectors and fields such as offices and schools. Its ubiquity in our daily life is undisputed thus I guess pen will still be used in the next at least another century. Having a pen in our hands is convenient since we can easily at any time jot down important notes or tasks to be done in any particular day.
These days it is not a peculiar view to see someone holding a pen that is personalized. Personalized pens are designed to meet needs by individuals or companies so that the pen serves as some sort of promotion or brand. A pen that is personalized to bring company’s logo is somehow a great way to promote your company and can easily create a unique impression for your company. There are just about myriad reasons to use personalized pens as a great promotion tool for your company either yours is a small company or a medium one.
Personalized pens are considered as among the easiest promotional methods to be implemented to promote your company. They are easy to be distributed to either your employees or your clients. For example, personalized pens can easily be distributed to your clients whenever they purchase something from your company by accompanying the product purchased with the personalized pen. You can also distribute them whenever you open up promotion booths at any convention or trade show. Since the personalized pen is mobile, it is user-friendly and people can easily get their hands on it and keep the personalized pen.
Let’s take a look at one of personalized pens from Quality Logo Products. There is one product which is currently on sale which they called as promotional pens. These personalized pens are exceptional for everything from bulk mailing campaigns to parade giveaways and work within any budget. Based on what it looks like, slim on its structure, those who wanted to restrict their budget can get these personalized pens at a very reasonable deal. The personalized pens are retractable and also have a clip that will allow them to go wherever you do.
The promotional personalized pens are just perfect for any industry and definitely a gift that is suitable to be presented to your business loyal clients as well as your employees. Though its looks is simple, I can assure you that the personalized pens are good enough to somehow reflect how committed your company is in terms of providing great service to the customers. The cost is also quite cheap since you can get a good deal of 19 cents per unit of the personalized pen when you make an order of at least 1055 units of them. As far as I’m concerned, there are no extra charges when you order them online though I expect that there will be a shipping cost as well as handling cost whenever you order them.
Using personalized promotional pens to promote your business is a brilliant way of getting quick recognition from the people. You can use them during any event especially when you perform any sort of promotion booth outside of the company premises such as at the shopping malls. The promotional personalized pens can also be used to raise funds or awareness. In other words, they are just excellent and ideal enough to go hard on the competition while going easy on the pocketbook.
Let’s take a quick look at the personalized pen’s specifications where unfortunately the only color that is available is white. The decoration method is the usual one where it is screen printed on the body of the personalized pen. Your company logo or name can be imprinted on the personalized pen’s clip, where the area size is 1 1/8” by 3/16”. The company name or logo can also be imprinted on the barrel itself. Since the cost is quite cheap to get these pens, you can expect that the material used to create these personalized pens, which is plastic.
There are many colors that can be used to imprint your company name or logo on these promotional personalized pens; Black, white, red (PMS 186), reflex blue, dark blue, yellow (PMS108), and also other colors. PMS (Pantone Matching System) color match is a system shared world wide by the graphic arts industry.
So when can you expect your order of the personalized pens? Well, if you order it today, it is going to take one day for processing and around 7 business days for production including the shipping date. Depending on where you are located, the delivery charges differ from places to places. Just enter your zip code and the system will automatically decide what the charges are. If you are quite in an urgent situation where you really need the personalized pens to be delivered to you in three days, extra charges will be implied to you. There are restrictions as well if you are kind of rushing to get the personalized promotional pens.
If you ordered let say 10000 units of promotional personalized pens, it will cost you about $1900 not including the setup charge. However if you rush to get them, the price will go up a cent more per unit of the "personalized promotional pen".
Ok enough talking about promotional personalized pens. Let’s take a look at another pen which is also on sale. The company called it as Comfort Stick with Grip personalized pen. This personalized pen looks simpler than the promotional pen but still has its own unique professional look. It is designed with a separate cap, refillable black ink, and medium point cartridge. These pens are perfect if your business has a lounge where the customers are waiting to get your service. The personalized comfort stick with grip pens can be left anywhere on the desk or on the sales counter; wherever visible to the customers. They just can’t resist to keep one of those pens LOL.
There are few colors available to get this personalized comfort stick with grip pens; black pen, blue pen, dark green pen, purple personalized pen, red pen, and also personalized yellow pen. The company logo can be imprinted on the pen in an area size of 1 ¾” by ¾”. Only two colors are available though for the ink; black ink and blue ink. Just like the personalized promotional pen, this personalized comfort stick with grip pen is made from plastic as well. The cost is about 17 cents per unit of personalized comfort stick with grip pen which is slightly cheaper than the personalized promotional pen.
In my next post, I will try to make some comparison between few personalized pens offered by this company and others.
