Shop Promotional Flash Drives and Memory
Contents

• Flash Drives Video Buying Guide
• Why Buy Custom USB Drives
• When and Where to Use Flash Drives
• Things to Consider When Buying Flash Drives

Flash Drives Video Buying Guide

Why Buy Custom USB Drives

Custom USB drives are one of InkHead’s most popular promotional items, and with good reason. The best promotional items are those that get used long again and again long after they’ve been received. In this technological age, flash drives have some of the highest reuse rates. Like most custom computer accessories, flash drives carry a high perceived value—meaning that recipients of your flash drives will be more impressed with your gift than with other promotional items they may receive.

Most companies want to appear tech-savvy these days, and promotional flash drives are a good way to convey that message. Furthermore, flash drives are often swapped and shared, which can lead to additional impressions per unit. For these reasons, flash drives are among the most popular promotional items InkHead sells.

Next, we’ll take a look at when to use flash drives before going over some things to remember when buying custom USB drives.

When and Where to Use Flash Drives

• Schools: Flash drives are one of our most popular education promotional items.
• Graduation: Flash drives also make excellent custom graduation products.
• Employee Orientation: Welcome new employees with a flash drive loaded with company policies and other important information.
• Trade Shows: If you’re looking for an effective tradeshow giveaway, flash drives can’t be beat.
• Teacher Appreciation: Flash drives make excellent teacher appreciation gifts.
• Healthcare: They’re also useful as healthcare promotional items!
• Nonprofits: Several charities have used flash drives as nonprofit promotional products.
• Government: We’ve also helped several agencies employ flash drives as government promotional items.

Things to Consider When Buying Flash Drives

• Price: Because of volatile market conditions, prices for tech accessories such as personalized flash drives can vary greatly. Make sure to contact us to ensure the price listed on the website is the most accurate.
• Data Loading Service: Many of our suppliers also offer data-loading services for their USB drives, meaning you can hand out flash drives preloaded with whatever you want. Please note that there is generally an extra charge for this service. Your account manager can provide more details at the time of your order.
• Accessories: Some manufacturers also offer accessories such as lanyards or keyrings for their flash drives. If this is something you require, please let us know during the ordering process.
• Material: While the majority of our flash drives are made from a hard-polymer plastic, we do carry some made from speciality materials, such as leather and bamboo.
• Production Times: Most flash drives take around 5 business days to produce, however rush production service is available on select items. Aside from our free rush production flash drives, production times for rush flash drives include 24-hour, 2-day, 3-day, and 4-day. Be advised that rush production on flash drives generally costs extra and may not be available on extremely large orders.
• Quantity: Minimum quantities for flash drives vary between as little as 12 pieces and as many as 500, so pay close attention to the minimum quantities when ordering.
• Size: We carry flash drives ranging in sizes from under 1 GB up to 4 GB. We recommend going with flash drives at least 1 GB or larger to maximize your ROI.
• Speed: Most flash drives carried by InkHead are USB 2.0 and work with all current major operating systems. If you require USB 3.0, please contact us for assistance in locating an item for you.
• Shape: Want a USB drive in your own custom shape? Take a look at our flash drives from LogoIncluded. Note that the minimum quantity for custom-shaped USB drives is 500 pieces.

Contents

• Why Buy Custom Mouse Pads?
• Types of Custom Mouse Pads
• How to Buy Custom Mouse Pads

Why Buy Custom Mouse Pads?

Looking for an ideal product to promote your business, event, or cause? Or perhaps a useful and uniform desk accessory for the people in your own office? Chances are the answer is right under your fingertips, right now! We live in a computer-driven age; with a computer comes a mouse, and with a mouse comes a mouse pad, a veritable poster for your promotion sitting on countless desks to be looked at and used again and again throughout every single day. Back when a mouse was basically a trac-ball with a handle, mouse pads were made exclusively of spongy rubber covered with fabric, but with the advent of optical mice now mouse pads come in a variety of different materials, sizes, thicknesses, and uses, and InkHead carries a vast selection to meet your needs. Any image you can think of can be transferred to a mouse pad, making it an ideal canvas for your promotion.

Let’s take a look at the different varieties of custom mouse pads available. You’ll be surprised by just how many choices you have.

Types of Custom Mouse Pads

Promotional Mouse Pads

The traditional promotional mouse pad is well-represented on our site. Soft rubber topped with fabric that takes a custom imprint beautifully, these pads are available in the standard rectangle (from 6”x8” to 8”x9½”) or, if you’d like something different, there are round pads 8” in diameter available. You also have a choice in thicknesses, between ¼”, 1/8”, or a very slim 1/16”.

Vynex Mouse Pads

A popular alternative to rubber is Vynex, a hard plastic laminate that protects the image while providing just friction to make using the mouse more comfortable. Best of all, a Vynex custom mouse pad is about as flat as a pad can be, making it practical on the desk as well as attractive to the eye.

Window Frame Mouse Pads

The Vynex laminate also allows us to offer a variety of window/photo frame mouse pads, in which your customers or employees can slide in personal or family photos for a unique touch that will be most appreciated.

Leather Mouse Pads

For executives or anyone going after an upscale look for their desktop accessories, a selection of promotional leather mouse pads, which can be silkscreened or debossed for a subtle but classy look with a high perceived value.

Eco Friendly Mouse Pads

At InkHead we try to offer as many eco-friendly alternatives as possible, and our selection of mouse pads is no exception. We offer personalized mouse pads in beautiful and durable recycled cardboard and recycled paper, including pads that double as tear-away notepads – for the earth-friendly multitasker.

Double-Duty Mouse Pads

We understand all too well how computer monitors, keyboards, and mice can eat up valuable real estate on a crowded desk. With that in mind we also offer personalized mouse pads with convenient and space-saving extra features, such as built-in calculators, calendars, 4-port USB hubs, and the ever-needed gel wrist rest to help your customers get through a day of mousing as painlessly as possible. They’ll appreciate your thoughtfulness as well as your eye for a cool accessory.

How to Buy Custom Mouse Pads

The beautiful thing about using custom mouse pads as a promotion is that the possibilities for decoration are virtually limitless – whatever configuration of logo and artwork you can imagine can usually be reproduced faithfully and vividly on a mouse pad, and our crack graphics team is ready to help you realize your work of promotional art. Limitless selection can also be daunting, however, so here are a few things to consider when choosing your mouse pads.

End-User Needs

Just about everyone who works at a desk, whether working on spreadsheets or balancing the family budget, will use a mouse pad, but not all desks are alike. If your target customers or employees are professionals with a taste for upscale décor, they’ll be more receptive to one of our debossed leather pads or a Vynex pad that lies unobtrusively flat on their desks. A tech-heavy desktop would benefit from a USB-port pad – you can never have too many USB ports!

Imprint Area

The sky may be the limit for the kind of images and graphics that can be imprinted on a custom mouse pad, but here space is not infinite. Every mouse pad on our site comes with its precise dimensions, so if your artwork is intricate you’ll want to choose a larger pad so as not to lose any of the details. Often an image will work better on a round mouse pad, and round pads are eye-catching and interesting.

If you are interested in our window/photo frame pads, we advise selecting one with as large a window as possible while maintaining the integrity of your graphics – providing your customers or employees with the opportunity to personalize their mouse pads with photos means the pads – and your brand – will stay on their desks for a good long time.

As with all of our products at InkHead, the wide selection and competitive prices on our site are backed up by unparalleled customer service, so feel free to contact one of our Promotions Specialists to have him or her assist you in the process of ordering and imprinting your custom mouse pads.

Ready to order some custom mouse pads? Have a question about this product? Please contact us. We can take your order over the phone or answer any questions you may have.