Posts Tagged ‘eco friendly pencils’

Why Your Carpenter Customers Want Promotional Carpenter Pencils

Friday, August 27th, 2010
Promotional carpenter pencils

Our promotional carpenter pencils are eco-friendly and can be printed in full colour.

Do you have customers in the building trade? If so you will find many different promotional gifts that they will find useful. Promotional carpenter pencils are one of these products. Logo printed carpenter pencils are ideal marketing tools because they serve an important purpose and last a long time.

What other low cost promotional items can you think of that are portable, don’t leak and can erase your errors?

I am often asked by companies supplying carpenters with everything from cement to wood to food what business gifts they will appreciate most. Their question is always followed by my question – How much do you want to spend?

If you have a large budget and can afford to give away top quality tape measures, tools and workwear than by all means do so. Such gifts are very useful and will be appreciated.

The truth of the matter is, most businesses do not have huge marketing budgets.

One such business comes to mind. I was recently contacted by the owner of a sandwich shop that traded near Ingleby Berwick, the UK’s largest housing estate. Many of the shop’s customers are builders who stop by regularly for lunch. As there are many restaurants in the area, competition for the builders’ lunchtime trade is intense.

I recommended handing out low cost carpenter pencils printed with the shop’s logo and a sandwich meal deal. Carpenter pencils are used regularly and even when they are not used they are rarely thrown away. Instead they stay in the carpenter’s tool box until needed. If they are printed with a logo and contact details they can promote a business for months if not years.

Builders love carpenter pencils because they are flat and can be put down on a steep roof without rolling to the ground. The lead in the pencils is wide and flat instead of circular like normal pencils. The core is also harder than standard pencils so that carpenters can write on rough surfaces such as cement and wood. As the lead is flat, they can also write thin lines or fat dark lines simply by turning the pencil.

One more reason to give away these popular low cost promotional items is the fact that they are harder to find than other pencils. When was they last time you saw a carpenter pencil for sale in your local supermarket or stationery shop? Their usefulness and their scarcity helps make them the ideal business gift for carpenters.

Did you know that carpenter pencils can be printed in full colour? There are also many eco friendly versions on the market. You can purchase recycled plastic carpenter pencils and FSC wooden pencils manufactured from wood that is certified to come from properly managed forests.

What message would you print on your promotional carpenter pencils? Do you care to share your ideas?

By Dan Toombs

The Many Uses of Promotional Pencils

Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Promotional pencils

Promotional pencils can now be printed in multiple colours!

Dave Jones (not his real name but definitely real) has been purchasing promotional carpenter pencils for many years. He works for a family owned trade supplier of building supplies and understands how much his customers value these low cost gifts. He loves the fact that they can be printed in full colour with fantastic results. Over the years he has purchase literally thousand of promotional carpenter pencils and his brand has become much stronger for it.

Promotional pencils come in many shapes, materials and sizes. Where Dave has found them to be the ideal promotional tools in his niche, many others have found different types of promotional pencils to be invaluable promotional products for their marketing requirements.

Just the other day I was in a pub that caters to families. Each and every child in the pub was offered a black and white kids menu with pictures and a box of colouring pencils. The boxes were printed with the pub’s logo and name. They were put to good use and most were taken home by the kids to colour with and further promote the pub.

Think about all the different types of businesses and organisation that use pencils and you could find a good reason to consider printing your logo onto a few hundred of these excellent low cost gifts.

Students in schools and colleges use pencils daily. Why not print your logo onto a few hundred and donate them to your local schools? If you sell a service or product that is perfect for the education industry or perhaps aimed at families, your pencils will be seen by those you are trying to attract.

Pencils also come in very handy in sports like golf and bowling where scores are kept by the players. This offers you a valuable opportunity to promote to these people. Do you have a popular restaurant near a golf course or maybe a taxi firm near a bowling alley?
Low cost gifts like mini wooden pencils can promote your service or facilities at very low cost.

Also readily available are executive and plastic mechanical pencils that can be used for years as the lead refills are available at stationery shops and easily replaced. Printing your logo on a quantity of these promotional pencils cannot be a bad idea.

Many people are trying to be more ecologically conscious these days and one way they are doing this is by giving their customers eco friendly promotional gifts. Promotional pencils are some of the most eco friendly gifts around. Look for mechanical pencils manufactured from recycled plastic or FSC wooden pencils that are certified to be manufactured out of wood harvested from responsibly maintained forests.

Can you think a a group of your target customers that would appreciate your logo printed pencils? Perhaps you have already used pencils to promote your brand. Feel free to leave a comment and share your thoughts.

By Dan Toombs

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