A well placed give-away works wonders for business

Many people feel much more valued when they know that their chosen brand or company appreciates their custom. Corporate gifts are an excellent way to start a productive dialogue with your clients in a way that encourages them to think about your services as mutually beneficial. Mugs, pens and many other everyday items can be an important tool that you can use to help your business grow. By placing your brand on our high quality products, your company will be associated with reliability and resourcefulness. The daily cup of coffee now becomes an opportunity for you and your brand. Your item could likely come to be known as “My [brand] mug”, which is an excellent way to spread awareness about your business.

Here at EMC Advertising Gifts, we have a massive range of products to choose from and they are all customisable to feature your company name or logo. This means that you have a wide choice of what sort of gift you want to distribute to your clients. You can hand out essential items like promotional pens or mugs that will be used every day, or you can wow your clientele with some golf accessories or even champagne all carrying your brand.

With so much on offer, EMC gives you the opportunity to find the perfect gift to suit your business. So take advantage of this wonderful chance to spread your business with the power of gift-giving.

A useful tool for promoting your business

Even now, with so much computer technology, writing and the pen are essential tools for any business or any part of life. They are an essential item round the office, so as a business, there is surely no better gift or promotional item than the pen that has become such a valuable tool of modern business.                        

We can provide you with a high quality pen that will quickly become an everyday essential item for its owner; a reputation that will carry good associations with your company.  We all know the great joy of possessing an excellent pen for a brief period of time; now you have the opportunity to associate that joy with your company because the promotional pens that we offer are fully customisable to carry your logo or brand name.

Writing tools have been used for generations to convey ideas and to educate and inform. Today, you have the opportunity to be a permanent part of that process by informing people about your company with the writing tool itself rather than what it writes. Every time somebody picks up a pen to write, let them reach for the pen that promotes your company. Get the message out; show your support for the importance of writing.

A gift that's sure to get put to good use

So this December, why not look into the increasingly popular option of promotional pens and business gifts for your employees? Business gifts are bound to please all of your employees, as they are functional and can be used on a daily basis by everyone, instead of being stowed away at the back of a draw never to see the light of day!

Christmas gifts for your staff and employees are difficult to choose because you want to buy something for the whole team that will make everyone happy and suit all personalities. Promotional pens are an affordable option, which we all know is important in the current economic climate, as no business ever wants to waste money especially at this already expensive time of year, and because of how useful they are, these gifts they will be appreciated by everyone.

Not only are they a fantastic option for Christmas gifts for your employees, promotional pens are also a very effective way of promoting your company; they are something which everyone uses everyday and if they are used at home by your employee or in public places then this will increase the awareness of your brand, so everybody will have a reason to be jolly this year.

Promotional pens are a great way to do this. Pens are an effective way of getting your company name out there simply because they are a necessity -something which is used every day. Every time someone uses one of your promotional pens, they see your name or logo and are reminded of your company. A pen is something which a customer will keep and use over and over again. Therefore, a promotional pen works as a constant advertiser for you over a long period of time, making it extremely effective.

Printed pens are great value, very useful and can survive on the desktop for a long time; so it comes to no surprise that they are indisputably one of the most used promotional products in the UK. In the business world your company name is everything, you need to expose it as much as possible, the more attention your company has is essentially a measurement for how many clients and interest you have, or will have.

 They are a cheap way for you to advertise your company and are therefore an invaluable marketing tool. They can be purchased in a variety of colours and styles, so you are bound to find something which suits your company.

The pens come in various different styles, colours and designs; so you’re guaranteed to find the perfect one suited to your business. The promotional pen doesn’t have to be cheap and cheerful; it can be presented to a valued client as a promotional gift; the executive choice.

There’s no denying the value of a good pen is high. Marketing via printed pens, is so simple yet extremely effective. Printed pens are great value, very useful and can survive on the desktop for a long time; so it comes to no surprise that they are indisputably the most used promotional product in the UK. In the business world your company name is everything, you need to acquire as much exposure as possible, the more attention your company has is essentially a measurement for how many clients you have, or will have.
Your company name could be all over the UK in a few weeks, a couple of hundred pounds could get your company logo printed on thousands of pens; these printed pens could then be found in offices, schools, banks etc.

Think about how many times a day you use a pen, Just once a day means you get 365 uses out of that promotional product and essentially 365 glances at your company logo. This simply equates to free advertising all year round for the cost of just a few pence, a truly worthwhile investment.

 - Promotional pens and notepads, a key element of any conference; it also encourages people to take notes and overall increase focused on what you have to say.

-Consider Flash drives, preloaded with the speakers notes could prove a handy little device. How and when you should distribute your promotional gifts during the conference?

For instance a great time to distribute notepads and pens would be directly after introducing yourself, this will ensure that they see you in a positive light because they’ll associate receiving a free gift with you, and ultimately make them more interested in what you have to say. The notepads and pens will also encourage them to take notes during the conference. A flash drive containing preloaded speaker notes would be invaluable to anyone at the conference; towards the end of the conference is an ideal time for the giving out the pen drives, as a conclusion, and as a parting gift. Another aspect of conference preparation to consider is colour. The power of colour is often overlooked, colour has been proven to affect mood, increase attention and even sway opinions. The colour of your promotional gift can say a lot about you as a person, or more importantly as a company. The colour blue has calm, comforting, trusting qualities, emotions evoked from blue. Think about your next conference, it could benefit greatly from an ideal combination of promotional gifts and colour.

An Example of One of Our Promotional Pencils

With most promotional pencils being typically made from wood, a block is cut into two slats or tiles, which will fit together again to make the body of the pencil. The slats are then stained to allow the wood of the pencil to be painted or lacquered later on, giving the pencil an aesthetically pleasing look.

Small grooves are then cut into each of the slats, into which the lead of the pencil is then placed. The two slats are then joined into position, making the product now begin to resemble the finished product. The pencil is then machined and sanded to remove any imperfections in its shape, giving it a perfectly smooth, symmetrical design.

The final step is also the most important step in the production of a promotional pencil, the printing or engraving of a logo or slogan onto the pencil itself. This is usually done with screen printing machinery, providing a clean and crisp image on the pencil in any colour that the customer wishes. Engraving is often seen as a more expensive way to add a design to your promotional pencil, however thanks to modern computer aided manufacturing, engraving is an affordable option as well.

Promotional pencils are often overlooked by businesses, which prefer to look for promotional pens to market their firm through stationery; however a promotional pencil can be just as effective as a promotional pen.

Pens Are Arguably The Best Promotional Product

There are numerous varieties of pens in terms of colour and style and this allows differentiation when trying to design the ones which will suit the company or customers best. Businesses can always print their logo, business tagline or whatever message they consider appropriate and want to transmit to their target audience. In order to be even more effective, pens made out of recycled material which is biodegradable can send a double message. Besides taking the promotional pens as gifts, customers will be notified that the business is aware of the current environmental situation and want to play their part in improving and showing care which therefore increases the intensity of communication.

When trying to raise business awareness, promotional gifts do not have to be highly outstanding for them to effectively spread the message about your organisation. It is all about the whole ‘free gift’ concept. Customers will always acknowledge free gifts since this reassures them they are highly valued by the organisation.

These products help bolster any company’s public relations in addition to reminding customers about the business’ brand, so hurry and don’t get left behind in terms of promotion.

Our More Expensive Pens Have Amazing Design and Quality

At EMC we offer a wide variety of different promotional pens, from our cheapest pens at 6p per item all the way through to our most expensive pens at over £35 per unit. For the purpose of giving away a free pen at a trade show or at the release of a new item, there is no expectation of a special pen; people just expect a simple Biro. When you are dealing with a trusted customer, however, giving them an inexpensive pen might be taken in the wrong light.

This is where our clients see the value in our most expensive promotional pens, because they are something that any business owner would be proud to use to sign a contract. Giving these to your valued customers will leave them looking at your company in a very positive light due to the incredible quality and style that our top of the range pens provide. The added bonus of the styling of our more expensive promotional pens is that your company will gain more exposure through the better looking, more expensive pen being preferred by the customer to the cheaper pens and thus used more often.

With our wide range of promotional pens, we can offer you the right pen for your target audience, whether it is as a give away item at a trade show, or as a gift for a valued customer.

Promotional Pens are a Great Way to Market Your New Business

With many start-up businesses it is difficult to get a consumer base who knows who and what your business is, especially with what is usually a limited marketing budget. Our promotional gifts are a great way to get your start up business noticed, be that by doing free giveaways of your chosen promotional gift or by giving out promotional gifts to customers. The important thing is to get your branded promotional gifts out there.

With our incredible range of different promotional gifts, we can offer you many options for different stages of your business marketing plan, however the keys at the start of your marketing with promotional gifts is to have something that is cheap per unit, to allow you to give a lot of items out at a low price. It is also important to have a useful product so that the customer will retain the product over a long time and be reminded of your business.

Promotional pens fit the bill perfectly, with hundreds of styles and options available, you can make your own original design and style of pen, to make you stand out from the crowd, a pen is something everybody uses on a daily basis and thanks to our affordable prices, and you can afford to give them out far and wide.