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Why Do You Need Personalised Office Equipment?

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Have you been wondering how to make your office a little more homey and friendly feeling, help your business appear more professional to your employees and clients, or tie in your office supplies with your brand for a more cohesive aesthetic? Personalised office equipment could be exactly what you need!

Personalised office equipment could be anything from a custom-printed mug for the breakroom bearing your company’s logo, to a personalised notepad with your branding and contact details printed at the top.

There are so many benefits to investing in personalised office supplies and business stationery – and, contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t have to be expensive! In terms of budget, there are many low-cost sources of office supplies and equipment, so why pay the extra?

In this article, we will discuss the benefits of personalised office equipment to your business and where you can order yours today.

Can Personalised Office Equipment Improve Your Business Branding?

Read any book on business marketing or search online and brand marketing comes out on top of the list of marketing essentials. Establishing and building a brand is one of the fundamental ways of promoting and growing a business.

Develop your own corporate brand image and try to emulate the success of major corporations, whose brand images are closely associated with their products and services.
With brand marketing, the company should use their chosen brand image in every aspect of the business, and that includes areas such as office equipment.

The consistent use of the brand’s image:
1) Immediately makes your brand familiar to customers and the public. For instance, McDonald’s golden arches logo stands out on the high street and is instantly recognisable, without even seeing the company name.
2) Reinforces your brand among your own employees. As a business owner, you encourage your employees to be brand ambassadors and using branded office products internally is great for achieving this.

If your employees associate themselves with the brand, they will believe in and promote the company’s brand image to customers. It is a very important aspect of business marketing – which is why you need personalised equipment in the office.

Some companies, perhaps focusing on their customers only, forget that their own employees are part of the brand too. It makes an enormous difference to business promotion and company morale when employees see themselves as part of the brand.
How can a company be true to its own brand image if they don’t promote that image both internally and externally?

What Kinds of Office Equipment Can Be Personalised?

The list covers many items that a company uses on a day-to-day basis, including pens, notepads, personalised mugs and letter openers.
Cheap, non-branded versions of all these products are indeed available from any office stationery supplier. Some business owners, despite brand promotion being a prime marketing goal, automatically choose the cheaper option rather than using personalised products in their own office.

But for long-term marketing, this is a false economy. Even if you don’t see an immediate benefit, don’t underestimate the long-term effect of personalised office equipment.

Where Can I Use Personalised Office Supplies?

Aside from being useful for internal brand promotion within the office, most of the above products work very well as customer promotional gifts and can be distributed:

1) During trade shows and sales conferences
2) As part of promotional events, such as “spend £20 and get a free mug” when ordering online
3) In your customer-facing business premises, if you have one

As an example, if your business is in the hospitality sector, such as a hotel, branded personalised office equipment such as stationery and pens are great to leave around the hotel for guest use. For instance, most hotels provide pens and stationery in their rooms.
Personalise the pens and notebooks to match the hotel’s name and style. Guests will take the pens from the hotel rooms and use in their everyday life. From a quality point of view, make sure that the pens work well as it is a poor recommendation for the brand if they run out of ink, or break, after a short period.
Look around your home or working environment to see how many promotional items from other brands you own – it may surprise you!

How to Personalise Office Equipment

So, when it comes to ordering personalised business stationery, office equipment and promotional products with your branding, what kind of products are out there – and how might you use them? Here are some examples.

Personalised Mugs

Mugs are probably the most versatile item, as they are highly visible and used every day. You may choose full-colour designs that cover one side or a design wrapped around the entire mug.

Choose a design that matches the company’s brand image, is nice to look at and reflects its products and services. If its intended use is as a promotional gift, make sure that the design includes contact information, and use a good quality mug. As with other items in this category, cups offer long-term brand exposure.
A well-designed personalised mug looks great on social media. Perhaps offer them as prizes during social media campaigns.

Design personalised mugs for your employees complete with their names, or perhaps have a designer draw a caricature of each person and give them out as Christmas presents. This would be a fun way to engage with your employees!

Notepads

Personalised notepads are great all-rounders. They can be used:
1) In the office
2) In the shop, hotel, or other business premises (to be used by staff and guests alike)
3) As promotional gifts for customers
4) As gifts for your employees to take home

One particular advantage of promotional notepads is their size, which allows for extensive creative design and personalisation. Being a paper-based product, they are easy to print on and are less expensive than some other items.
If your business is in the legal sector, design custom branded yellow legal notepads for internal and promotional use. These can be used both internally and for customer engagement.

If aimed at important customers, combine the notepad with a high-quality pen in an attractive leather-style folder. Alongside mugs, pens and notepads are some of the most popular promotional items, because they also offer long-term brand exposure. In marketing budget terms, that’s great value for money.

Pens

There is not a lot of space on a standard pen, so when adding text, include essential information only. If branding is important, custom manufacture the pens using brand matching colours and use a unique shape or design.
The custom manufactured pen option is more expensive and perhaps more appropriate if used for important customer promotions.

As mentioned above, pens are great promotional items for hotels, whose guests may continue to use them after leaving the hotel. If the company hosts a sales conference, give away branded pens and notepads for note-taking. The recipient will hopefully carry on using the items after the event.

For the ultimate high-tech promotional gift, use pens with built-in USB storage and a laser pointer. Before a sales conference or customer meeting, load up the pen with company sales brochures before distribution. These items are also highly popular with employees. Before giving them to the customer, make your sales pitch presentation using the laser pointer. It is a novelty gift, but a highly useful one.

Letter Openers

There are several types of promotional letter openers available, including plastic and sliver knife styles. However, think carefully before giving away a knife-style opener.
Aside from the danger aspect, something that resembles a blade may get blocked by airline security, which would cause issues for a customer flying back to their home city. Unless you have a pressing reason to choose the former, the plastic-style opener is likely the safer option and features several unique benefits.

Because of the plastic material, they come in multiple colours and shapes and are convenient for adding promotional printing, compared to the silver knife style, which is only suitable for engraving.

Rubber Stamps

Unless there is some novelty value in them, rubber stamps are not as useful as promotional gifts. However, they are very versatile when used by a business, in an office or retail environment.

For instance, a coffee shop implementing a loyalty card scheme may use a coffee bean shaped logo stamp, for stamping their loyalty cards, each time a customer buys a cup of coffee. Typically, stamps with a company logo and address are the most popular for office use.

But stamps are versatile and may use any shape or design that fits! Often, these are used in the office to mark received documents or invoices—‘Received’ and ‘Paid’—being typical examples.

Where Can I Buy Personalised Office Equipment?

Personalised office equipment is a great way to liven up your desk at work, and spread your brand awareness among your employees, clients, customers, and the general public.
At 123Print, we provide a wide range of affordable personalised office equipment for you to choose from. You can make your own personalised mug or notebook featuring your business logo and tagline with our easy-to-use design editor. Our printing technology is the best available on the market, so you’ll end up with an extremely high-quality product that you can be proud to associate with your brand.

Start with a blank design, or choose from a range of templates that have already been created for you. We can also print flyers, postcards, business cards and even custom printed envelopes for your business at extremely affordable prices.

When your order is complete, our shipping process ensures that we’ll dispatch your order within two working days! We also offer a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee, so you have absolutely nothing to lose by giving us a try – and we’ll replace or refund your order if you’re ever unsatisfied with the results.

What are you waiting for? Visit our website now to get started and transform your business into a true force to be reckoned with!

Personalise your Business

Personalising Your Business

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In times gone by, popping down your local shop or shopping on a high street was regarded as an absolute pleasure. Small local shops thrived and you could regularly find yourself chatting for hours with store owners whilst queuing in an orderly fashion for a rental video of Tom Hank’s latest thriller, Hooch.

This was a true personalised shopping experience, where you were valued as a customer, lavished with friendly cheer and attention and your buying decisions rested solely on the comical genius of the butcher in question or how well a florist could make you feel like Romeo when purchasing a dozen roses.

 

Unfortunately, due to the birth of the internet and the dramatic rise of business to customer platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, it seems the personalised shopping experience we allude to has been well and truly left behind.

Fact: We believe a personalised shopping experience is more important than ever.

As more businesses disappear from the high street, due to a lack of foot traffic, and appear only in the online world the competition to stay at the top of the online landscape becomes fierce. Even if you are one of the lucky businesses with your high street presence still intact, as an offline business your audience is shrinking daily.

Fact: Developing a personality throughout your business is more important than ever.

And no, this doesn’t mean you have to leave every customer in hysterics with your witty charm. It simply means projecting an image of being more than a business solely focused on money and actually interacting with your customer as a real and valued person. Yes – you’ll still have a brand. Yes – you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of your market research. But the inescapable fact is people are far more likely to buy, and perhaps more importantly, remain loyal, to a business that shows they are real person taking care of their needs.

Maybe take the time to pop in a hand written thank you note with your next couple of orders or a complimentary thank you personalised pen. It’s an element of customer care that is missing from today’s online landscape and the businesses who are implementing a personalised interaction are having real success.

Question: How would you feel if you received a personalised item saying ‘Thank you NAME – From all the guys at 123Print UK’?

You don’t even have to stop with the odd personal interaction; you could expand this concept into every single transaction. We personally love the idea of styling the envelope or packaging of every order, depending on its content.

It shows you’ve taken the time to think about your customers and illustrates that you are more than just a robotic business taking money with the left hand and giving the service with the right.

Power of the Pen

The Power of a Pen

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How you can harness pen power in your business…

When the ancient Egyptians first invented the pen it’s impossible to know whether they understood the influence its creation would have on the world. The pen’s ability to document and share information in a tidy format revolutionised our world as it has acted as a pillar of knowledge and played a key role in distributing important knowledge.

Fun fact: Pens are  mysterious little buggers! Have you ever experienced the moment where you needed a pen and they all just suddenly vanish from existence? We always need a pen and yet we can never find one.

Since the invention of the computer, the vast rise of the internet and the conquering of this new exciting space by apps like Twitter and Evernote, pens have seen an unfortunate decline. Handwritten letters have quickly been replaced by text messages and emails, and notepads are disappearing from your weekly meetings as iPads and Notebook computers pop up in their place.

But we believe the power of the pen is still alive and especially so when it comes to marketing your business. The decline of pens may even be an opportunity for the right business to take the market by storm, as the pen now has an aura of beauty and that personal touch around its use.

Pen idea: Consider that we only receive hand written items on birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions, it may be worth contemplating the effect a pen can have when trying to impress, influence or appease your customers.

The pen’s use as a marketing tool doesn’t have to stop there either, as when considered as a promotional item it is both affordable and very useful to the person who receives it. Research by the BPMA seems to agree with this as well, as they discovered 80% of people in receipt of a promotional pen will keep it for over 6 months! That’s an astonishing amount of time your brand can be placed in front of your target market and not something that should be underestimated.

So the power of pen is still there, it just needs a little thought and perhaps an extra bit of clever personalisation to really make a difference/work for you!