The best bosses give their employees a gift that will last a lifetime. They give a Maglite engraved with their logo. Laser engraving looks professional and lasts forever. HOW do you give one? That’s easy, because they come in beautiful presentation boxes. Some of the boxes are hinged plastic gift boxes, with molded areas for the Maglite and batteries. You don’t have to wrap a present like this.
Flashlights have come a long way in the last 40 years. First was the Maglite® adjustable beam, and now the LED bulb! Complete darkness can now become blazing daylight, using just a few AA batteries. It’s no wonder that companies are advertising by putting their logos on engraved flashlights.
Promotional advertising items are ubiquitous. Most businesses use them because they work. Does your business reap the benefits of Promotional advertising items? If not, here are 10 signs that show why you need to use this effective form of advertising.Anodized Carabiner, 65073
Almost nobody comes in your door.
None of your customers refer new customers to you.
The days that businesses around you are busy, yours is not.
People say that you are not spreading good will.
The chamber of commerce never heard of you.
There are no calendars in town that show your company logo and phone number.
No refrigerator in town has your logo on a magnet.
Nobody in town has a pen with your phone number on it.Storm Pen 55327
Notepads and sticky notes are all over town, but none of them has your company logo.
People wonder if you are still open for business.
If these points sound familiar to you, it’s time for you to turn things around. Make your business noticeable, and spread your good will. Pump up your business to a level that it deserves. Promotional advertising items can be a worthwhile investment in your income.
No one else needs these books. False. They are very useful to scorekeepers, foresters, linemen, cable guys, contractors, pipeline installers, well drillers, surveyors, and engineers.
They come in 1 size only. False. They come in 2 sizes. 8 5/16″ high and 6″ high.
They come in 1 style only. False. They come in many styles.
They cannot be printed with your logo. False. Your 1-color or full-color logo can be imprinted on the cover.
They cannot have a continuous imprint spanning the front and back cover. False. A full wrap is possible, with a full bleed.
They wear out fast. False. They are durable, and protected by a vinyl cover. A new option is the “stone pad”, an alternative to a paper pad. It is waterproof and tear-proof.
Not everyone is an architect, but many non-architects use their tools. Architect scale rulers and pocket tapes are used by many people in the construction trades and real estate. For example:
Draftsmen
Plumbing estimators
HVAC estimators
Electrical estimators
Painting estimators
Concrete and block estimators
Carpenters
Builders
General Contractors
Owners who are planning a new building
Civil Engineers
Realtors
Real estate tax assessors
Tax map office employees
Excavators
Yard sprinkler system estimators
If you see some of your customers on this list, then you can advertise to them in a special way. Let us put your logo on an architect tape or ruler. It will be appreciated, will last a long time and will be visible every day.
I use the word “Magic” loosely. The explosion of personal computers in the last 40 years has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the quality of printing from those computers. 40 years is a really short amount of time as far as printing technology goes. 40 years is very short compared to the year 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and movable type in Europe. In 40 years we went from the time nobody could print a document or picture in their own house, to now, in 2016, when everyone with a personal computer can design and print in high resolution full color. We can even print our own wall calendars, with our own pictures of our family. If we have 12 children, we can make a wall calendar with one of our children on each month.
There is one difficulty of doing this ourselves. Where do we get the template for the year? If we find one, can we modify it to our needs? How do we spiral bind it? Fortunately, we can have someone else make Custom Calendar Printing for us. There are many companies who do this, and specialize 1-10 copies. If you need 50 or so, some other companies are more suited to your job. And their cost per calendar is very small. Save your ink, and let them do it.
It finds the circumference of a round (or oval) object.
A Pipe diameter tape measure is an oil and gas pipeline man’s best friend. Those who drill oil and gas wells find a diameter tape a necessity. It retracts and fits in your pocket. It’s ready to use all the time. No calculations or calibrations are necessary. All you do is wrap it around the pipe and read the diameter off the diameter scale.
If you need the circumference of the pipe, just wrap it around the pipe and read off the circumference scale.
Diameter tape measures are used by plumbers, oil and gas drilling companies, and tree people. When should you buy some diameter tape measures? Here are 3 clues:
The shop’s diameter tapes are too large to put in your pocket when you need to go into the field and measure some pipelines.
You don’t want to use a regular measuring tape and divide by pi.
You want to be always prepared in case you need to find the diameter of a pipeline when you are away from the shop.
I just came back from a promotional product show in Cleveland, and was surprised to see that Maglite® has come up with 5 new Promotional maglights (Maglites) for businesses. I didn’t know Maglite® Promo had any more tricks up their sleeves. (Maglites® is the correct spelling, but some of my best customers find my website by misspelling the word).
Tony Sabo is our local Maglite® representative. In this picture Tony is showing me the new ML25LT and the new ML50LX. All the new models use 2 or 3 C batteries. That should give you an idea of the size of these gems.
The 5 new torches are available for laser engraving your corporate logo on the barrel or on the head. Companies buy hundreds of promotional Maglites®…..and pass them out to their best clients. They also make great safety awards in manufacturing plants. Here is a glimpse of some of the 5 new engraved flashlights. All of them can be seen (and ordered) here…New Maglite® Flashlights.