swag
The thing about having a business license is that your company info gets harvested by all kinds of people. I get lots of company credit card offers (no thanks!) and info about employee insurance, but every now and then I get free pens. People who sell promotional stuff send samples of their wares in hopes of enticing you to buy their brand with your name and address on it.
The quality’s going up! First I got plain hard pens with “wearwithstylecom” screened on the side, then I got one with a gel grip, and yesterday I got one with a gel grip, metal accents, AND someone took the time to separate my name into its individual components instead of pasting it directly from their mailing list. And I can have some made for only 99 cents a pen!
Again, no thanks. If they can afford to send them out randomly for free, I don’t want to think about how little it costs them to make these. And things with my logo would be useless. My Jayne hat packaging is fairly authentic, I can’t be cramming pens with my company name in the box, it just looks bad.
Still, I hearken back to the days of working in TV and getting all kinds of free stuff. It’s been 7 years and I’m still wearing T-shirts from cancelled shows the networks were promoting. Good times, good times.
I don’t need the swag I’m getting now, but I still get a little kick out of it. It’s one less thing I have to purchase, too. Why buy the pen when you can get the ink for free?
Hats up next: NC, CA, IL. Go Windy City!
We got our first pen a few months ago and it was beautiful. It had “Warsheep Productions, Inc.” on the side, and our mailing address (which is really a useless thing in our business), but the phone number… we’re unsure where they got it. 😀 It’s not a phone number associated with the company, it’s not even a phone associated with Mary or I. I’m still baffled over that one.
I use it like mad though, it’s very functional.
We got our first pen a few months ago and it was beautiful. It had “Warsheep Productions, Inc.” on the side, and our mailing address (which is really a useless thing in our business), but the phone number… we’re unsure where they got it. 😀 It’s not a phone number associated with the company, it’s not even a phone associated with Mary or I. I’m still baffled over that one.
I use it like mad though, it’s very functional.
Oh oh, I forgot…
You don’t put them in the boxes with your items. You put them in your purse and you use them to write checks, or whatever. Then you “accidently” leave them places. Loan people your pen at the check out line and don’t take it back. Use it to sign your bill at the restaurant and leave it on the server’s check tray.
People will use the pens (unlike business cards), see the logo everyday and eventually go check you out. AND, if they lose their pen out in public, it’s just more advertising for you. 😀
Oh oh, I forgot…
You don’t put them in the boxes with your items. You put them in your purse and you use them to write checks, or whatever. Then you “accidently” leave them places. Loan people your pen at the check out line and don’t take it back. Use it to sign your bill at the restaurant and leave it on the server’s check tray.
People will use the pens (unlike business cards), see the logo everyday and eventually go check you out. AND, if they lose their pen out in public, it’s just more advertising for you. 😀
Why buy the pen when you can get the ink for free?
That sounds like a really bad pickup line I should be using {G}
Why buy the pen when you can get the ink for free?
That sounds like a really bad pickup line I should be using {G}
I never get stuff like that! damn.
I never get stuff like that! damn.
I love swag. My team is trying to figure out how to get to the next Autotech convention. We need to sound like we are needed, but are really going for the swag.
I love swag. My team is trying to figure out how to get to the next Autotech convention. We need to sound like we are needed, but are really going for the swag.
I bow to the queen!
I bow to the queen!
D’oh! That was me. Got logged out somehow!
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