Archive for August, 2009

Promotional Sports Bottles

Friday, August 28th, 2009

One of the best ranges of branded merchandise options to consider for fitness and outdoor type activities is that of promotional sports bottles. Personal fitness is such a growth area that it would be wise to consider a promotional item that the recipient would find useful in this area and promotional sports bottles do not represent a large spend to enable you to have your name seen by a client database as well as the people that notice the sports bottle when in use.

There is a large choice of promotional sports bottles, demonstrating that this is a popular product area. Most products are moulded plastic and can therefore be found in numerous colours. You can look to take promotional sports bottles in several sizes, allowing for smaller 330ml or 500ml capacity bottles, right up to 1L. Many of these products have removable caps and this again opens up the possibilities of mixing and matching the products colours to create a promotional sports bottle to match your corporate look or to stand out from the others and be noticed.

Within the plastic range of promotional sports bottles, there are several items that deserve highlighting. Biodegradable plastic is being used more and more in promotional item production these days and there is now a choice of sizes of the bio bottle, with a couple of bottle shapes as well. Some bottles have handy usability features such as hand grips and non-return valves on the running bottle, and there are various models with features of this type that can be sourced.

Aluminium promotional sports bottles have the great feature of providing significant long term product lifetime as well as being fully recyclable. These types of bottles are great for multiple usages, resist damage and they can now even be printed in up to full colour process. Several finishes are available including brushed or white finished aluminium.

One of the great features of promotional sports bottles is the branding area. Usually these are printed on a machine that allows the print to wraparound, providing a full 360 degress spot colour print (or full colour on some models) that is only then restricted by height. This allows significant branding that can include logos, products, services, contact details or even event details if you are looking to sponsor a race or event.

Promotional Sports bottles are therefore a great giveaway idea and that can engage your target audience, encourage them to use the product in various ways and provide a lasting reminder of your branding to those who use and see the product in use.

Promotional Pedometers

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Fitness and looking after our health has never been so important or high on our own personal agendas. Therefore gifts such as promotional pedometers would surely be a winner with your target audience. There is a great choice of pedometers available as business gift ideas and these range in price, style, colour availability and functionality to ensure that you will almost certainly find a product to suit your needs and provide a gift that will act as a brand reminder for your company for a considerable amount of time.

Promotional Pedometers have had a rise in popularity over recent years, spurred on by initiatives to get Britain fitter and using the great outdoors to do this. Whether this is just walking, jogging or some serious training, promotional pedometers can be a really useful tool at measuring several workout indicators to ensure you are maximizing the workout to your ability. Some promotional pedometers simply measure distance, whilst others have step counters, calorie burn counter or fat analysers.  Additional features on some models can be an FM radio, or a personal attack alarm, brilliant ideas to make people want use their promotional pedometer.

The choice of colours and styles is one of the best features of the promotional pedometers range. There are products that the look of the ipod, giving contemporary appeal. Others are neat and with a belt clip can be easily attached and the wearer would forget they were even using a promotional pedometer.  Print areas are good on all of these products, and they can take a multiple spot colour print. The ECO angle should not be overlooked, as one of the promotional pedometers is solar powered, removing the need for batteries and the replacing of them.

Promotional pedometers would fit neatly into a couple of marketing campaigns when looking at your next purchase.  They would be ideal for a staff incentive gift, would be a great Christmas or business gift (to a top list of clients). Given that promotional pedometers are small in size and can be bulk transported, they could also be a great idea for an event or exhibition giveaway, either using one of the cheaper products for a larger audience or ensuring that a select few people are in receipt of one of the more expensive promotional pedometers.

Business gifts that provide the user with a functional useful item are sometimes the most popular choices and promotional pedometers certainly tick all the right boxes where this is concerned.

Promotional Torches

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

When considering which promotional or business gifts to select, it is often a good idea to look at an item that the recipient will make regular use of. Promotional torches are a great idea that will fit the bill. They wont necessarily have daily usage, but the product will be kept, stored and act as a reminder of your branding, product or service for a considerable length of time. There is a great choice of promotional torches and the various colours, styles and range in general is constantly evolving.

Promotional torches can be found to meet any budget from the lower value products that are generally purchased to provide a simple cost effective brand reminder to a larger audience. Often the lower priced products are in the form of a keyring, but equally these can be small to medium sized hand held promotional torches. 

Moving up the price range and the quality of promotional torches is clear to see. Most products will then more likely be LED’s, providing a product with an even longer lifetime. Often metallic, the medium to higher priced promotional torches will be a more robust product, will be able to take tougher treatment and will possibly suit certain industry recipients such as the construction client base.

At the high end of the promotional torches price range you will find brand named products such as Maglite or LED Lenser, which are truly stunning torches. These are heavyweight metal and can be branded by engraving (often to multiple positions). The colour choice in the Maglite range of promotional torches in particular is fantastic and there are numerous products to choose from such as the smaller Maglite Solitaire Torch right up to the Maglite 2D cell torch. Lenser also produces some quality products, with certain products available in more than one colour. These are the torches approved by the police due to the beam brightness and how tough they are.

Promotional Torches are not so much an item to consider for a direct mail campaign, but they do fit nicely into several other marketing areas. Torches can be a really well received business gift for a set of clients and most promotional torches will have a higher perceived value than the actual spend levels. Staff incentives are another area that can be fulfilled by torches. Some of the smaller, inexpensive promotional torches could be considered for event or exhibition giveaways, certainly providing a lasting reminder of your branding well after the event has ended.

It is certainly a business gift area that should not be overlooked and promotional torches may well provide your company with the perfect brand reminder.


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