Product Review

Mail out gifts are a great way to get your brand known. Especially in light of COVID, send out a nice present to your clients, staff, friends, or family and have your brand shine. Here are our top promotional products for mail outs.

Letter Mailer Printed Vases

These premium letter mailer printed vases are perfect to ship out to clients, staff, friends, or family. These vases are made from soft PVC shatterproof material and come in a white envelope. This is the perfect alternative for an expensive fragile glass vase. You can easily decorate the vase itself with your brand or logo. Get this emblazoned today!

Custom Printed Air Fresheners

Send out these custom printed air fresheners in your next mail campaign. These air fresheners can be used in the office, at home, or even in a car! These items come in a variety of designs and can be decorated via digital sublimation to ensure your brand or logo pops. Get this as a gift for your next promotional campaign.

Cheap Printed Stubby Coolers

To make sure your staff, clients, friends, and family enjoy a cold beverage, mail out these cheap printed stubby coolers. These stubby coolers easily fold and can be sent out in an envelope. This is a thoughtful and useful gift that can be appreciated by all. Coupled with your brand name, this is a fantastic means of promotion!

February is already half over, but we're still rolling out new additions to our unbeatable range of promotional products. Want to see what items are hot right now? Check out our top-sellers from the exciting new range.

600ml Logo Emblazoned Sports Bottles

When you need durable drink bottles featuring your unique custom branding, you can't go past 600ml Logo Emblazoned Sports Bottles. Made from hard-wearing, BPA-free Tritan plastic these bottles boast a sturdy lid with a push-button opening for easy access. Promotional Items Australia also prints your logo design directly onto these bottles, making them a popular new choice for sports teams, team-building exercises, conferences, and marketing events.

Fold Up Backsacks With Event Printing

Increasingly Aussies are adding custom totes or backsacks into their handbags and briefcases as secondary shopping bags in a pinch. Now that disposable plastic bags are outlawed, it just makes sense to provide your customers and staff with a reusable option featuring your logo that will remind them of your business every time they use them. These custom printed backsacks not only fit lots of items in them, but they're also easy to carry, available in multiple colours, and can fold into a small pouch size. Truly, these are an innovative addition to our collection of promotional bags.

Custom Branded Keyring Power Banks

There's nothing worse than using up your entire phone charge while you're on the move. Our smartphones are essential items that connect us to work and home seamlessly, so nobody wants to run out of battery. Luckily we have these new Custom Branded Keyring Power Banks in stock, as they're a lightweight and comfortable addition to your keychain that can potentially save you in a pinch down the track. We print your logo directly on one side of the mini power bank, and you can distribute them as promotional gifts. Each power bank keyring boasts 1200 mAh, which gives you around an additional 2 hours of talk time.

Run, don't walk, to get your hands on these unique custom goods from the Promotional Items team!

A trucker cap features a breathable mesh material around the side and back of the cap. This mesh enables the headwear to breath easily allowing for a cool, comfortable hat for your head. The mesh also creates a unique look to the cap, as the mesh provides the hat with a round shape structure as well as a unique colour tone when worn.

In all other aspects, the cap has the same features as a regular baseball cap, including a front peak and a forehead panel.

Personalised Trucker Caps

Our promotional trucker caps have a large branding space on the forehead for your logo or graphic. The sides and the rear of the cap cannot be custom branded though.

Branding Options

A trucker cap is personalised with your graphics or logos using,

• Embroidered Trucker Caps - We use needles and thread to stitch your graphics directly onto the cap.
• Screen printing on Trucker Caps - We create a blocking stencil to transfer ink to the surface of your cap in your desired solid colour design.
• Digital Transfers for Trucker Caps - We print your multi-colour design onto transfer paper using a digital print machine before heat pressing the full artwork onto the trucker cap.

We can also decorate on certain styles of trucker caps using full-colour sublimation printing and custom badges. Ask our friendly sales staff for more information on these techniques.

Who Buys Promotional Trucker Caps?

Because trucker caps are lightweight and durable with a large branding area, they are extremely popular purchases for large-scale expo or outdoor sporting events. Whether you'd like to give your staff or team headwear as part of a uniform, or if you want to catch the attention of your client base with great giveaway caps then our range of trucker hats may be just what you need.

Buy in Bulk and Save

We keep our trucker caps stocked locally and abroad to meet different time frames and cost requirements. Contact our team today for more information on ordering personalised trucker hats in bulk today.

Promotional umbrellas have to be one of the hottest categories of products for corporate gifts. A quality umbrella is known to the user the moment it is held. A hooked handle umbrella has many advantages over regular umbrellas. If you are considering purchasing a company umbrella branded with your logo, then please read on.

Why Choose a Hooked Umbrella

An umbrella is preferable to a regular umbrella for a few reasons.

• Reason No.1: A hook umbrella looks spectacular. It provides a user with a classic retro look which is terrifically appealing. Your logo and branding will benefit from this.
• Reason No.2: Having a hook on the end of an umbrella makes it more comfortable to hold and more ergonomic. When it is raining, the person using a hook umbrella will be thankful.
• Reason No.3: An umbrella with a hook makes it more convenient when catching public transport, as one can just use the hook on railings and other general objects, to save you the effort of needing to hold onto it.

When considering purchasing a promotional umbrella, you need to think about these advantages associated with hooked umbrellas. For advice on what type of umbrella, works best for you, give us a call.... Your Friendly Promotional Products expert!

Check out our complete range of Promotional Umbrellas here.

Most people start the New Year with the intention to save more money. Many come up with a savings plan but sadly, only a few manage to follow through with it. Considering this, businesses should sit up and notice this particular market and give away promotional merchandise which will encourage savings. Among the personalised products which would be welcomed by these potential customers include the following:

• Printed Piggy Banks – for obvious reasons, these piggy banks sends across your message clearly. Plus, they are quite classical and would evoke happy memories of childhood. They are also cute especially since they come in a variety of colours.
   
• Folding Wallets – keep track of your credit card usage with these custom folding wallets which feature several compartments for your credit cards.
   
• Travel Mug – coffee drinkers will be surprised with the amount of money they can actually save from choosing to invest in their own coffee machine and make their own cup of coffee as compared to buying from a popular café chain. 
   
• Post It Notes – allows you to post reminders or notes of motivations for yourself so you can stay focused.
   
• Notebooks and Pens – you can easily write down your expenses as well as savings in these handy notebooks with pens.
   

Make sure you have them printed not only with your business’ brand name or logo but also artwork which states your message of savings clearly like “Keep Calm and Save Money”, or “Save for the Rainy Days!”. 

Australians love coffee. It is a fact that is evidenced by the multitude of cafes and coffee shops in every corner, ready to serve your favourite Macchiato or Café Latte. With the easy access to delicious coffee, it is thus not surprising that there is also an increasing number of plastic or paper cups disposed. This is certainly not good for the environment and you can help reduce consumption of these disposable cups by bringing a Travel Mug.

Use Promotional Travel Mugs

In an arid region such as Australia, it will take 50 years for disposable cups to decompose. Certainly something to think about, right? So, for businesses, you can promote your brand and at the same time, join the advocacy of encouraging people to reduce their use of disposable cups by handing out Promotional Travel Mugs personalised with your corporate logo or artwork.

In addition to brand visibility, you also create a “greener” image, which more and more consumers appreciate. You can even make an entire marketing campaign around these promotional travel mugs and the return on your investment will surely be great.

Probably one of the greatest inventions of the modern times, the USB flash drives have never been so popular. These small devices are now capable of storing up to 1TB of information including files, photos, videos and music. A lot of us use these USB sticks for the convenience they offer and peace of mind they provide especially since we use them to back up all our important digital files.

Considering their importance and valuable contribution to day to day life, you may wonder how this little thing actually work? It may probably make us appreciate them to a whole new level.

USB Flash Memory

Why are they called flash drives? Well such name can be attributed to the fact that these devices run on flash memory. It is actually a type of electronic memory which allows for easy and quick transfer of information. This memory is not typically used as a RAM (Random Access Memory) but more of a hard drive meaning a much more solid state with all the parts electronic vs mechanical. In fact they consist of grid of columns and rows with a cell and two transistors located at the grid's intersection. Transistors work as gates and are capable of holding electric charge.

Flash memory also operates on low power and does not require batteries to work. In addition to USB sticks, they can also be found in digital cameras, video game consoles and your PC's BIOS chip.

How it Works

For starters, flash drive is connected to your computer via USB port. Most computers are capable of detecting the flash drive's operating systems and proceed with device installation. Once installed, it will be treated by your computer like a typical hard drive. But compared to hard drives, flash memory does not consist of moving parts rendering it virtually noiseless. Access is also faster and it cannot be denied their smaller sizes and lighter wights offer much more convenience.

Without getting too much technical, the entire process goes through several steps including Tunneling and Erasing.

The USB connector acts like an interface while the flash memory chip performs the actual data storage. There is a tiny RISC processor which handles the storage control and a crystal oscillator that produces clocks signals and manages the device’s data output. Most USB flash drives come with LED indicator lights and write-protect switches. As their popularity grows, USB flash drives have become favourite promo merchandise. Now, they are available in fun novelty custom shapes which make them even more eye catching.

An important emergency tool is the flashlight. We have them in our homes, offices, attached to our keys and even our vehicles in case we need a source of light. Their portability adds to their appeal and for the past decades, these flashlights have evolved and become even more powerful, thanks to LED light.

LED vs Standard or Incandescent Light Bulbs

The popularity of the LED flashlights can be attributed, of course, to the fact that they feature the LED lightbulbs. DEveloped in 1993 by the Japanese, the LED or Light Emitting Diode for the past decades, these flashlights have evolved and become even more powerful, thanks to the LED light.

Source of light: LED produce light electronically while standard bulbs depend on filaments which are heated to become incandescent

Product: LED produces mostly light and little heat while regular lights produce almost the same light with nearly twice the heat

Fragility: the filaments in regular lights are more prone to breakage caused by dropping, knocking against an object and other forms of shock. Meanwhile, LEDs are encased in shockproof epoxy and will not suffer from damage when dropped.

Life Expectancy: LEDs can last for as long as 100,000 hours while incandescent light bulbs can be expected to burn out after 6 hours.

Battery Comsumption: Regular lights can drain a battery in just few hours while LED in 60 hours

Colour: LEDs produce white light, regular bulbs do yellow light

Other Advantages Offered by LED Flashlights

LED torches come with several light levels, thanks to their use of electronics. You should not be surprised if your LED torch can go from dim to medium bright to very bright by simply choosing a switch. Such setting allows for the conversation of battery life and would really bode well in emergency power outages.

With their longer battery life. the need to bring along packets of batteries is eliminated, making the flashlights practical choice during work, camping, hiking, backpacking or simply emergency situation. LED lights are known to be chemical free and 100% recyclable.

Going for promotional apparel such as branded polo shirts is always considered a smart marketing strategy as they offer a cost-efficient way of boosting branding visibility. Of course, there are certain factors you have to consider when making a choice such as shirt style, colour and most importantly branding process.

Most of the time, our customers find it challenging to choose between Embroidery and Screen printing. So to help you make an informed decision, we have outlined the advantages and disadvantages of both print processes:

Embroidery on Branded Apparel

Embroidery involves stitching a particular text or design onto your choice of apparel item, including polo shirts, jackets, or caps. Corporate bags are also suitable for embroidery.

Embroidery costs are based on the number of stitches. Larger images require more stitches and the other way around.

Advantages :

• Durable. Embroidery doesnt wipe off overtime
• Texturised design makes your artwork stand out
• Ideal for thick of fuzzy fabric material like fleece
• Low cost for multiple colour logo / artwork
• Low setup fee
• Free setup fee for orders over 50units
• Free setup fee for reorders
• 3D design brings your logo to life

Disadvantages:

• Not suitable for photo or real image print
• Expensive for large size branding
• Unable to print small text and elements

Screen Printed Apparel

This technique involves conversion of artwork into a multilayered film that can be applied to any garment. Screen printing costs are based of number of print colours, each colour requires individual screen.

Advantages:

• Detailed and sharp print result
• Ideal for large designs
• Cost efficient for large print runs

Disadvantages:

• Printing may fade off overtime
• Not cost efficient for multiple colour logos
• Light colour printed on dark garment requires one or two base prints, means additional print charges
• Repeat orders incur repeat print setup
• Unable to print gradients or half tones

Customising your promotional merchandise is actually the most important key to ensuring brand recognition and recall. It is definitely not enough for a business to hand out common gifts which will leave recipients wondering where it came from, why they were being given and the message behind such business gifts.

This is where color printing options come in. You actually have a choice between one-colour printing and full colour printing. For those working with a tight budget, you might think that one colour prints are practical but if you really weight the benefits of choosing full colour printing, you might be surprised.

Benefits of Full Colour Print Process

Also referred to as 4-colour printing, full colour printing is fast becoming a favourite of businesses looking to maximise brand exposure. The reason is simple. The resulting printed product is overwhelmingly more vivid and is more likely to be remembered that one colour branded items. Full colour printing can be cost-efficient in the long run considering the bigger impact they leave on your customers. Messages are also more quickly conveyed as recipients are more likely to stare at the image longer.

Now that we are in agreement that full colour printing is the way to go, you are now left with one question: which among the many promo merchandise will look good in full colour prints? Here are some suggestions:

• Branded magnets – most magnets end up as decorative accessories and you would not want to miss such opportunities to showcase your brand.
• Promo Mouse mats - like our magnets, mouse mats are on display round-the-clock. They are also what stand out in any computer desk and you would want to make sure your custom mouse mats become the center of attention.
• Custom Key Rings – another everyday essential that gets overlooked as a marketing tool are key rings. Maximise the fact they are the first thing a person looks for in the morning and the last thing the see when they got home from the office. Imagine if they are more noticeable than the generic keyrings you have been handing out before. See the huge potential?

Of course, you need to make sure your logo artwork is not overdone and leaves the recipient dizzy. For some tips, you can always ask our friendly team member.