Cool Promotions.

[The Tourist]

I work for an electronic design firm, and our biggest problem is marketing. I would send potential clients our company profile on a PDF file, and the thing would get lost in a month or two. Repeated calls weren't that effective to boot.

I ran into a deacon from our church who had attended a trade show. He handed me what appeared to be a ball-point pen with a clear glass barrel. When I clicked it an LED lit up the entire barrel. He said when he lit it up, people gathered.

After doing some research, I found a company that specialized in the higher class version, the Power-Glo and contacted The Writers Edge.

We now hand out black and gold pens with a bright blue LED. It appears more elegant, and our client won't throw them away. Our corporate name, phone number and website are neatly silk-screened onto the upper black portion.

When one of our cliient's executives gets his pen, we get calls from his staff. It's an excuse to book upcoming projects. Check them out.

 

[Joe Talmadge]

I got a few of these from Oracle Applications World, several vendors were handing them out. It was definitely among the best knick-knacks I've gotten at a trade show. I also enjoyed the big rubber super ball that had internal LEDs that light up whenever you bounce it

Joe

 

[one2gofst]

I have one of those light up giant superballs. My friend has one of those light up pens. Both are cool promos. However, the pen works sporadically.

 

[Joe Talmadge]

By "works sporadically", do you mean the light, or the pen itself? The cool thing about the pen is that it looks like it takes some standard multipen-sized refill, hopefully fischer makes a space pen refill that will fit it. In fact, it does seem to be teh exact same size as the fischer refill in my Rotring multipen.

 

[one2gofst]

Functionally the pen works like it should. It just seems like the led connection is bad because the light will not always light.