Printed diaries are perfect for the run up to 2011

Most people have a diary that all appointments, social dates and other occasions are written down in, this would make it the perfect promotional gift to give in the run up to Christmas and the New Year. Instead of buying a gift for someone that they may have no use of or may use once and never again why not get a diary that will stick with them for the next 365 days until Christmas returns again. After all who could say no to something useful and free?

A printed diary is something that many people use everyday of the week to keep themselves organised and up to date with appointments, deadlines and birthdays. Not only is the owner of a printed diary going to see the diary and therefore the company everyday but others around that person will see the diary as they make appointments and arrangements. This is makes printed diaries the perfect promotional gifts.

Prices of printed diaries are relatively inexpensive and are a good way of getting your company noticed, especially in the season of good will. Giving a gift at Christmas is more likely to keep a person thinking of your company as it’s a nice gesture and giving a useful gift will keep you in their thoughts much further into the New Year.

Promotional Pens

Although the MP expenses scandal, continued economic woes and now the Haiti earthquake have all done their best to distract us, 2010 is an election year. This normally means the ruling party stops running the country in favour of trying to save their own jobs, while all the opposition parties point out how badly the country is doing, scaring off much needed investment and depressing the rest of us.

It has been a few decades now since politicians in this country figured out that what you say is much less important than how you say it, and in a media-led world of 5 second attention spans it is just as much about leaving an impression as actually proposing anything useful or innovative. It is in this realm that promotional gifts come in to their own, where political parties go slogan man and race to brand as much of the urban sprawls and their inhabitants as possible. Politicians and campaigners go door to door handing out promotional pens and badges, with promotional car stickers available for people who like defacing their own property (“Honk for change”, suggest the Tories).

Promotional Bags

Promotional items are also a great fund raiser, with the Conservative Party offering all manner of branded merchandise for sale from the “Shop For Change” section of their website, including printed diaries and promotional bags. As yet none of the other major parties offer an equivalent selection of their own, but it would be interesting to see how a “Tea For Change” Tory mug and a Labour competitor would compare in a head to head brew-off. Most likely you would either find the brewing industry shut down from lack of government investment and the brew making communities abandoned, or two hundred laws being passed governing the tea brewing process, crippling any remaining brewing industry with red tape and health and safety legislation.

Whichever mug you choose, it always tastes the same in the end. Have a happy election!