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Innovative Spirit Biofree Ball Pens

Promotional Pens are the most popular promotional gift in the industry and for good reason. They come in every style, colour and size to suit your particular needs, they are universally accepted, easy to distribute and most importantly, fit any budget. From low end, quality, budget printed pens for mass marketing, to high quality executive metal pens, there are promotional pens suitable for any occasion.

We are always bringing new styles and innovative pens to the market, however the new innovative Spirit Biofree Ball Pen is something entirely different. This ball pen pushes the frontiers of technology to help fight the increased spread of superbugs. The unique antibacterial properties of this pen are actually moulded into the pen body itself; not just superficially applied so it won’t rub off after use. The additive provides continuous antifungal and antibacterial protection throughout its life. These claims are fully certified by the manufacturer.

The Spirit Biofree Ball Pen is incredibly useful in healthcare situations, such as hospitals, but their where their bacteria killing qualities mean they have immediate application in any situation where many people may use the same writing equipment. Supermarkets, banks, offices, and schools, to name but a few, will appreciate the qualities of this pen to cut the transfer of infections around the community.

These plastic pens are attractive and write much better than its other mid range plastic pens. They are also reasonably priced costing, only a few pennies more than comparable pens that do not have the built in bacteria killing agents.

Having these pens printed with your company details as promotional gifts for your customers and ensuring your target market know the unique properties of this innovative personalised pen is the best way of demonstrating your thoughtfulness and product development to your target audience.

To keep upto date with our new personalised pens, stay tuned to the Pen Warehouse newsroom.

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Why are Personalised Pens so popular?

Promotional Pens are one of the most widely used promotional items currently used. They are used by many companies, large and small as part of their marketing strategy, to spread awareness of their campaign. There are many different reasons why they are such a popular option and here are just a few:

Affordable – with budgets being cut across the board at the moment, promotional pens are one that can fit any financial situation. Whether you need a low cost plastic pen or a few exclusive metal pens, you can easily find something here, at the Pen Warehouse.

Relevance – promotional pens fit into any marketing campaign as there are so many styles, models and colours to choose from. You can make a selection to compliment your company colours and aspirations to assure a good reflection of the image and message is conveyed.

Size – personalised pens are compact and therefore can be used for all sorts of applications, such as mass marketing mail-outs as they can be flat packed and are lightweight. They also don’t require a large storage area so can fit into any workplace with ease.

Value – personalised pens are extremely useful everyday objects that are appreciated by every demographic. They are kept and used time and time again, so your logo or advertising message is a constant reminder of your company and corporate image.

Durability – a good quality plastic printed pen with a large refill will increase the length of time your message is seen by your customers and have a better chance of reinforcing your message and contact details by as many people as possible.

Where there’s people, there are pens- you can never have too many. To choose the right printed pens for you and your company, give us a ring today or fill in the contact us form on the website and let our customer service team help you.

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Top 3 Promotional Highlighter Pens

Pens are a promotional item that can be used all year round by both large and small companies. Marketing projects include promotional pens as their promotional merchandise because they fit the profile of a quality, reliable promotional item, easily suited to any budget. Printed Pens are used daily by everyone, worldwide. Personalised Pens are a means to advertise your company, brand and marketing therefore on a regular basis.

Printed Highlighters carry all the same qualities as promotional pens, with the added distinction of being somewhat different as a promotional gift, adding a more colourful, light-hearted element, due to the addition of a bit of colour to your marketing campaign. They are a useful gift for your customers as well as highlighting the products and services your company offers.

The Pen Warehouse offers a great range of highlighters to fit any Marketing campaign, but these are the top three:

Triangular Highlighter – this highlighter offers a three in one highlighter, with a different colour on each apex. Because of its shape, the Triangular Highlighter would be easily seen sitting on a desk, displaying your logo, as it offers an extremely large print area. It is also printable on both sides of the highlighter, providing space to display your logo, contact details and marketing message, or include multiple promotions on one product, providing an extremely cost-effective promotional item. It is also available to be printed in full colour on both sides.

Helios Highlighter – this flower highlighter is a fun and colourful promotional item, offering five different coloured highlighter pens in a flower shape. It also offers an extremely large print area for your bespoke artwork. It can be printed both sides as well, in both full colour and spot colour. The result is a fantastic promotional item, well received by all customers, clients and colleagues.

Duo Highlighter – this double ended highlighter is capable of being printed in both spot and full colour across its large print area. The Duo Highlighter is a new addition to our range for 2010 and is proving to be a popular choice for an executive desktop item, as it offers an attractive, high quality promotional item suitable for a majority of budgets.

Choosing any of our promotional printed highlighters as part of your marketing campaign strategy will definitely draw attention to your branding messages.

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Promotional Pens for New Businesses

It’s irrefutable that promotional gifts are a big part of any marketing campaign to get your company noticed. When starting up your new business, making a lasting impression at every point of contact is critical to give you the best possible chance of success, but one expense that is always tight is your marketing budget. Nevertheless, to get a new business up and running, some promotional and advertising campaigns have to take place to start gaining customers. The most effective mode of marketing can be incredibly cost effective, and that is investing in personalised promotional pens. Harnessing the power of promotional pens as a marketing tool in daily activities is key to building a successful business.

The huge range of printed pens we offer here at the Pen Warehouse can leave you somewhat bewildered, not knowing where to start, but if you need help choosing, then you can either fill out the contact us form, or give our customer service team a ring who are more than happy to help. What you want from a promotional item is a low cost pen that’s affordable, good quality and useful so that they will be retained by your customers to ensure your contact details are always at hand. Your aim is to get your prospective customers to remember you, your products and services, and to be able to contact you when they are ready to buy.

Personalised Pens fit these specifications perfectly. The huge range of pens available from us means you can decide if you want to make a colourful splash into the market, by using our Candy Ball Pens, or go for something a bit more sleek and stylish, such as our Electra Metal Ball Pens; whatever best fits your company image and aspirations you wish to convey.

Giving free printed pens to everyone you meet means they will remember you and make you different from your competitors- a key concept for standing out from the crowd.

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Promotional Pens – Measuring the value of your investment

Promotional pens will remain a popular choice for businesses looking to drive corporate communication directly into the hands of their consumers. Why? Let’s be honest, namely because of the low cost entry point associated with printed pens in comparison to other direct marketing techniques. The cost of 500 plastic pens for you to place in your customers hands at your next exhibition will be cheaper than employing a direct marketing agency to target 500 customers on your behalf.

Most savvy marketeers will tell you one of the fundamentals of the discipline is to be able to prove activity delivers a return for the business. Most would be nervous about undertaking a piece of experiential activity or embarking on a direct mail campaign without being able to prove a return on investment. I will allow an exception to this perception for brand marketeers who will have no qualms in investing astronomical sums in above the line campaigns and be satisfied with an improved awareness rating from their consumers.

As an individual with a historical passion for marketing it pains me to spend any of my budgets on activity that I cannot see an immediate return for. However, having worked for a multinational brand for a number of years I have finally come to learn that from time to time it is necessary to invest in campaigns that will not necessarily sell you an additional unit, but will improve the perception of your business in the eyes of your customers and as importantly in the eyes of your consumers.

So, can the notion of proving a return on investment ever be applied to promotional pens? Of course, very simply printed pens can be held in the same light as a piece of direct mail. However, instead of mailing to a database of potential customers you are in fact placing your message into the hands of your customers. In the same way a voucher redemption code can be used on a piece of direct mail it can also be applied to personalised pens. Why not test the theory out at your next exhibition, instead of just printing your contact details why not offer a nominal discount for customers who quote a code printed on the pens – one sure fire way to incentivise your customers and a very easy approach to measuring the results delivered by your investment.

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Ecoallene Promotional Pens – An innovative approach to enhancing eco credentials

Promotional pens are an established tool in a marketeer’s armoury, providing a cost effective path to drive brand, price and quality perceptions directly into consumer’s hands. As a manufacturer, printer and supplier of personalised pens we are acutely aware of the sheer volume of lines available on the market – we stock well over 800 lines of pens ourselves. So with so many suppliers selling the same product where can you find printed pens that will make your business stand out from the crowd?

Two years ago Lecce Pen made a groundbreaking innovation through their determined work spent developing a solution to overcome the excessive amount of landfill site space taken up by post consumer Tetra Pak cartons. Their efforts of five years of research and development resulted in a process that would allow the successful recovery of polyethylene and aluminium layers of Tetra Pak cartons, which previously were considered unusable as a waste product. The fundamental process involves separating three layers; paper, aluminium and polyethylene. The paper layer is sent for recycling whilst the polyethylene and aluminium layers are processed to form a plastic like granule known as Ecoallene.

The credentials of Ecoallene are second to none, it is a genuinely post consumer recycled material that has been proven to contribute to sustainability. It is a fact that without Ecoallene there would be significantly more landfill site space and green house gas emissions resulting from discarded Tetra Pak cartons.

At The Pen Warehouse we were so impressed by the green credentials of this innovative new material that we decided to stock a range of products made from Ecoallene. The most popular being the Envirostick Ballpen, which includes the world’s first recycled refill thereby establishing the credential that 100% of the plastic components are made from recycled material. Most importantly it’s recycled material that has certification and a proven contributor to the sustainability of the planet.

So the next time you are wondering which promotional pens are likely to make your corporate message stand out from the crowd why not consider pens made from Ecoallene? In doing so, you will be enhancing your green credentials with a product that actually contributes to sustainability of the planet rather than just one of many that claim to be recycled but cannot provide certification.

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Pen Spinning Tutorial 3 from the Pen Warehouse – Specialist in Promotional Pens

Printing Promotional Pens is the core function at The Pen Warehouse, but as you know over the last few weeks we have brought you a series of Pen Spinning tutorials from our object manipulation expert Scott Menzies. When we first stumbled across this innovative new art form we were bowled over by the complexity of the tricks some Pen Spinners are able to execute, with the obvious connection to our line of business we felt it our duty to share our excitement and passion for pens by bringing you a series of Pen Spinning tutorials so you too can learn and experience the art of Pen Spinning.

In the first week Scott talked about and demonstrated the first of the four fundamental tricks in the Pen Spinning world – The Thumb Around. As Scott highlighted in the video it is essential to grasp the basics before you can progress any further withy this latest craze, once you have mastered the basics the rest of the tricks talked about in the tutorials will be a lot easier to execute. If you missed the first tutorial don’t worry just click on the Pen Spinning Blog and you will find tutorials one and two to view at your leisure.

This weeks Pen Spinning Tutorial sees Scott talk viewers through the third fundamental trick in the Pen Spinning world – The Sonic. Once the first two tricks, The Thumb Around and The Charge, have been mastered The Sonic will allow you to create combinations of moves to impress your friends and colleagues.

We will continue to release weekly tutorials providing you with detailed explanations on this latest craze in object manipulation. Make sure you return next week to catch tutorial number four.

Pen Spinning Tutorials brought to you by The Pen Warehouse – the specialist in promotional pens, printed pens and personalised pens.

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Promotional Ballpoint Pens – how to choose the right one for you

There are many reasons for choosing promotional pens as part of your advertising campaign of your company, but generally people decide to use printed pens because they fit any budget and are a universally accepted marketing tool. However, you have to be extremely careful when selecting the pens you will be using, as you need to keep your target audience in mind so you don’t lose focus.

If you are looking to target a younger audience or wish to get yourself noticed, then you will find a fantastic range of good quality promotional pens with a colourful or unique design here, at the Pen Warehouse. A few examples are:

Harrier Extra Ball Pens – Incredible value for money ballpen, for people on a budget. It offers a large print area and is suitable for both small and large promotional campaigns. It’s also available on a 24 hour express service for those last minute deadlines.

Alaska Crystal Ball Pens – A new addition to our range for 2010, available on a 24 hour express service. This twist-action ballpen has a translucent finish and extensive colour range to choose from.

Contour Extra Ball Pens – Another new addition to our range this year, it’s a modern twist on the Contour Argent Ball Pen. Its attractive white body and comfortable rubber grip has made it one of the best sellers across the industry at present.

For your long-term customers and executive associates, a stylish executive metal pen is generally the preferred choice. Your budget may need to be slightly higher for that added touch of subtle style and superior quality, but that’s what demonstrates how highly regarded your client is to you. Simple and elegant is the key for printed pens for this category. Some examples of suitable pens for variable budgets are as follows:

Snowdonia Metal Ball Pens – A stylish twist-action ball pen with pearlescent barrel and chrome trim. This promotional pen is suitable for the slightly higher budget.

Bullet Metal Ball Pens – A large metallic twist-action ball pen with rubber upper part. It’s a very tactile design with a classy satin silver trim finish for that added touch of luxury.

Electra Metal Ball Pens – One of the most attractive aluminium pens available with an anodised finish and chrome trim. The unique positioning of the chrome rings creates a much larger print area than standard and the design of the pen belies the cost.

This is just a small selection out of the hundreds of personalised pens we offer here at the Pen Warehouse. Choose your audience, then style to fit in with your print requirements and reap the benefits of your choice. If you feel you need a bit of help, please call our customer service team and we will be more than happy to help you choose a pen to fit your image.

Harrier Ball Pens is a registered trade mark and design of Tancia Ltd

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Printing in just 24 hours – including Full Colour on Spectrum Ball Pens

Are you looking for printed pens but have a tight deadline? Well you’re in luck- Spectrum Ball Pens are a striking range of stylish retractable ball pens, which feature a unique triangular white barrel, chrome trim and ergo friendly, comfortable rubber grip. These popular plastic promotional pens can be printed using our latest full colour printing techniques to provide you with a great printed pen at a great price point, in just 24 hours!

Due to the large print area available on this pen, we can reproduce photographic quality printing with stunning results, meaning its branding potential is not limited to one particular market. We can also print in full colour on both sides of the barrel.

If your logo doesn’t lend itself to full colour printing, accurate spot colour printing is also available, should this be appropriate. There is also a range of optional presentation packaging available, just ask for details.

We are also able to personalise an array of our most popular promotional pens with a one spot colour print in just 24 hours, including our complete Alaska Pens Range and Harrier Pens range, just have a look at our 24 hour despatch tab on the website.

Personalised Pens, printed with your company logo is an excellent way to show your customers your business identity and to strengthen your corporate appearance. Our entire pen range is fully compliant with current safety regulations, both in the UK and in the EU, providing you with complete peace of mind that you can put your print your company name on the pen, with confidence that your reputation will remain untarnished.

We have promotional pens to cater for any situation and can provide both unbranded and well known branded pens so we can be sure you are 100% satisfied with your final choice. Our customer service team are happy to advise you if you require more assistance on choosing the right pen for you, simply click the ‘Contact Us’ link, at the top of this page.

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Panther Ball Pens – Same Day Express Service for those last minute deadlines

The Panther Ball Pen Range consists of four pens: Panther Extra Ball Pens, Panther Frost Ball Pens, Panther Eco Extra Ball Pens and Panther Eco Colour Ball Pens. These personalised pens are ideal for all promotional campaigns and events as the complete range is available on a Same Day Express Service at no extra cost.

The Panther Extra Ballpen is one of the best selling personalised pens available at the moment, offering a large print area at extremely low prices.

The Panther Frost Ballpen comes with a silver trim and a range of frosted coloured barrels, to suit all promotional campaigns and events. Their low price point makes any budget seem reasonable.

The Panther Eco Colour Ballpen is our top selling Eco Friendly retractable ballpen, made from recycled plastic, available in six solid colours.

The Panther Eco Extra Ballpen is also made from recycled plastic, however comes with a solid white barrel and a massive choice of coloured trim options to compliment your corporate branding.

This range of promotional pens is priced to suit both small and large marketing campaigns, as the Panther Frost Ball Pens start from just £0.13 per unit, including a one colour print. This range of personalised pens also offers generous print areas, as it can be printed on both the barrel and clip, accommodating the largest logo or advertising message.

Our Same-Day Express Service allows you to have a single colour print on the barrel, and if your order reaches us by 10am and meets all the criteria, your personalised printed pens will be dispatched that evening, for delivery the following working day.

Keep tuned into our newsroom here at The Pen Warehouse – the home of printed pens – to stay up-to-date on the latest offers and products available to suit any budget.