Attending or taking part in events or exhibitions is part and parcel of business life. It is also an opportunity to remind your clients or potential customers who you are! Whether the event is a huge conference for the pharmaceutical industry, or local chamber of commerce event, raising your profile is important.

There are plenty of options when it comes to the events you host. A popular choice are t-shirts, polo shirts, and other clothing items. Screen printed or embroidered with your logo makes it easy for you to be recognised especially if it’s colourful and bold.  Brand recognition is the main reason to have promotional items. Use practical items like pens, carrier bags, keyrings, coasters, post-it notes etc. It helps if the item reflects what you do in some way, a contract hire company may use tax disk holders or keyrings for example. Conference organisers may use pencils, pens and note pads.With charities it maybe more fun items like balloons, logo bugs, stress balls or silicon wrist bands.

A useful promotional gift will work like a mobile business card! We intentionally leave branded pens and small post-it notes when we attend events or visit clients.

This time last month we were twiddling our thumbs (for that, read contacting all our database looking for work) wondering where the next order was coming from, then it was like someone stepped on switch! We have received orders and enquires that have kept us busy ever since.

Diaries, mugs, pens, memory sticks, coasters, corporate clothing and more. The most unusual being an enquiry for the old fashioned method of communication, two cans connected by piece of string! You know the sort of thing, the first “mobile phones”. Needless to say we have quoted, the tins are personalised and supplied with a mailing tube.

We hope this upturn in our business is a genuine sign of economic recovery, rather than a blip!