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Working as a salesman on commission can be both incredibly tough and incredibly rewarding. You’ve got to be constantly fresh, showing enthusiasm for your product, describing it time and time again with the excitement of someone describing it for the first time. You’ve got to come up with new ideas to promote your product, to hold your potential buyers just a couple minutes longer than the last salesman did.

What are you going to do? Print off a flashy brochure with diagrams and descriptions of your product inside and out? Give out free mini-models of your product? Show videos of your product in use? People are inundated with flashy advertising and face technology every day, everywhere, whether they like it or not. They’re not easily impressed when they’ve seen everything technology can do.

What can you do that’s original? Something people haven’t seen before? Hmmm…people like free samples. Not just a business card, or a cheap plastic keychain, but something they can use, and learn a bit about your products in the process. What about a USB flash drive? You could combine articles, videos, and images of your product into an interactive presentation that people could plug into their computers and watch at their convenience.

You could get a pretty good deal on purchasing bulk flash drives through a company called CFgear. Got company colors or a special logo that identify your brand? You can select the design and color of the drive and decide if you want a logo and company information printed on. CFgear can pre-load the drives with whatever data you would like on them. In fact, it can be set up to automatically pop up an intro window once the computer recognizes it.

Yes, there are ways to put yourself a notch above the other salesmen on the block. Who’s going to turn down a free flash drive? And potential customers will see your company name every time they look at the drive and see your logo. Great way to build a brand name.

So here’s the drill: going door to door, standing at your company’s booth at an exposition, presenting your product to industries that might use it, you can benefit from purchasing bulk flash drives loaded with information about the item you’re trying to sell. It’s worth a try.

Several companies have given testimonies of how CFgear helped their business. The Brookings Economic Development Corporation was seeking state funding and wanted to communicate the quality of its work. They received flash drives set up with a custom interface linked to web content describing the corporation’s work.

Customization and creativity are the goals. There’s no limit more than how far outside the box you can think. Make your company and your products stand out above all others, and you’ll see an increase in your market. Why not check out CFgear’s website, see what they can do to help you, and request a free quote?

Ever wonder what wall calendars and flash drives have in common?

Calendars have been a longtime standby of corporate branding promotional giveaways. The best ones are those that are useable. The usability itself gives people an incentive to make contact with the company that gave it to them.

Likewise, corporate branded flash drives remind the people who use them everyday of where it came from.

Customized flash drives are the newest innovation in corporate promotions. Flash drives actually provide something useful to your target market. Since a person can reuse a flash drive, flash drives keep your brand in your target market’s direct line of sight each and every day.

Flash drives, sometimes called jump drives, thumb drives, USB drives, or compact flash memory, provide ample room for storage and the ability to customize the outside with your brand’s logo.

CFGear, based in Sioux Falls , SD, offers a wide range of customizable flash drives, branding options, and non-erasable marketing content pre-loaded onto the drives. Now, every single time a member of your target market plugs in that drive to save their day’s work, they will be engaged with targeted advertising.

With Autorun, a person plugging in your corporate flash drive will view a quick application that will remind him or her of you. With pre-loaded hyperlinks, your website is now a simple click away.

Are you a new company, without a logo? Or perhaps your current logo is dated and obsolete? Launch a new look campaign at the same time with CFGear’s in-house design team.

Memory storage can be chosen from 1GB to 16GB and multiple different stops in between. With all these options, the possibilities seem endless.

Order one set of simple, logoed USB drives with a lower memory as a general give-away item, and order another batch with a larger memory option preloaded with promotional material made specific for your VIP clients.

Flash drives that double as pens, and even knives, will have people asking your target market where they got such an awesome device.

These innovative marketing solutions harness the power of gadget envy. Specialized flash drives are also great customer appreciation gift for VIPs and others.

Better than a brochure, folder, or other promotional material that is quickly chucked in the garbage, flash drives have a value that keeps them from getting forgotten.

A coffee cup with your logo might keep your logo in front of a potential customer or client. If they use it. Assuming they do, can that coffee cup hyperlink to your website or online catalog? Nope, but a flash drive can.

As for those old fashioned calendars?

Flash drives blow those old boys off the wall.

Tradeshows may have something to learn from the latest technology shows.

According to tech-geeks, nanotechnology may be the frontier for a coming generation of paint-on television screens and programmable wall colors.

Nanotechnology is basically the development of teeny-tiny gadgets that when put together do awesome stuff.

Sorta like the pixels in a television screen.

All this talk about the small things in life, makes one think about the small, tech gadgets that would be great items to give away at tradeshows.

Nanotechnology is not even on the market yet. Plus, it will be insanely high-priced for a given amount of time after it does reach store shelves. However, many of the tech-based tools people use everyday could be great, inexpensive promotional items.

When looking for your next promotional item think rechargeable battery kits, mp3 players, throw-away cameras, PDAs, flash drives and those sweet little chapstick holders that go on your keychain. Okay maybe chapstick is not technology, but those holder things work!

Actually a lot of these thing go on keychains. That’s where many people keep their flash drives, too.

Flash drives are peripheral memory devices without moveable parts. Used in place of failure-prone floppy disks, flash drives are an essential for many people. Being able to keep important documents close at hand can mean the difference between being prepared and looking sloppy.

Some companies, like CFGear, are actually utilizing flash technologies as promotional items, even working with customers to develop logos and pre-loading promotional content.

Flash drives, sometimes called jump drives, thumb drives, USB drives, or compact flash memory, are a great gadget to give away at tradeshows.

Other options are rechargeable battery packages that come with the charger and some basic, rechargeable AA batteries.

One time use cameras can be used to promote weddings, why not your company at a tradeshow? Encourage the attendees to use one to take pictures of new colleagues and other people they have newly networked with so they don’t forget a face.

Simplified electronic calendars are a great idea. Though the more sophisticated one gets, the higher the price tag.

Another option high in sophistication but low in price for you, is also a flash technology, the flash mp3 player. This thing boasts every bell and whistle one could hope for. Not only does it hold regular files like documents and presentations, it also holds music files, a backlit LED screen, an FM radio and plug and play technology.

All at a sweet-sized 100mm x 32mm x 32mm.

Sure to make an attendee smile and actually say “thank you,” a flash mp3 player not only can have your logo branded on it, but have pre-loaded content that can direct them to your website and boast other promotional content while still leaving them room for their own music files.

The next time you ponder your next great promotional item, think about something sized for the 21st century.