Pamela Scheibenreif, Tandem Staffing - Featured Customer
I have always enjoyed leaving a pen behind on sales calls. National Pen has allowed me to keep plenty of pens on hand to distribute every working day. There are numerous accounts that have remembered me because of the pens I leave behind and even some customers call and ask me for replacement pens. Yesterday I stopped by one of my favorite accounts with a fist full of pens - they love the Contour pen with blue ink. It makes me feel good to see the smiles on their faces...and all because they got a new pen. Thank you National Pen for making a wonderful product that my clients and prospects alike LOVE! I am known as "The Pen Lady"
Fred DiTroia: Karaoke and Beyond
I can't IMAGINE TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS without using giveaways. As a professional DJ service company, we specialize at being EXTRA ORDINARY by doing WHATEVER IT TAKES to personalize a client's party. This means running games and/or contests so as to get everybody involved in the fun. And winning is a SWEET THING when there's a receiving end to it. Hence the importance of giveaways. This is true NO MATTER WHAT age you are. And not only is THE SPIRIT OF GIVING rewarding in itself but what better way is there to further promote your business after the party ends by having personalized gifts circulating around. Believe me, WHEN THE TIME COMES for remembering who did a past event, such giveaways are a plus. Let me finish by saying that a simple gift of a personalized hat given out at one party, lend to several others after neighbors saw our past client wearing it around the yard. It's TRULY GETTING BETTER all the time..!!! By the way - in case you haven't gotten the reason for certain words in this paragraph to be capitalized - they represent song titles. Can you name the artists that sang these songs.....always be ready to play.
Brenda Ross: Ross Tax Service, Inc.
I prepare income tax returns in my home office. For years now, I have enclosed pens by National Pen in the clients envelope with their copies of their tax returns. My clients have grown to depend on the pens, especially the squiggle pens I have enclosed for several years now. My clients say if they forget my phone number they just look at their pen. Their children will even tell them to look for their pen. They report to me that these are the best and only pens they use and they last from one tax season to the next. Just to be sure that I make them happy with the color of pen, I give them the opportunity to exchange the one I enclose for the color of their choice. This works really well also. Thanks.
Melissa Smith LMT: Life Source Massage Therapy LLC
I just bought the business "Life Source Massage Therapy" and needed to advertise but money is too tight. We love your contour pens better any one else's. We have looked around and you have the best pens! You make our logo look outstanding and all of our clients love your pens too, they take one every time they come in and we never say no... They last a forever, write great, and they feel good in your hand. We just can't seem to keep them around...
Nicole Connolley: Kid's Dental Care
We are a pediatric dental office and we currently order the contour pen with the tiny happy people on it. EVERYONE absolutely loves our pens! The design is very eye catching - people see our pen and instantly know we are kid focused. We hand out our pen to many other dental offices and schools and people always call me begging me for more pens. I recently visited an office and an associate said to me right before I walked out the door "Wait! Do you have any pens with you? I lost mine and no other pen writes the same." I just laughed, but lucky me I had more pens. There was another time when I was in an office using our office pen to write and I let the receptionist borrow it to write something down and she said " OOOhh I love the way this pen writes." I replied "It's yours." I get this all the time. People remember us by our pens not only for the cute design but because how amazing they write. We are so happy to do business with your company. Your product is wonderful. Also, I would like to mention how happy we are with National Pen's customer service. Teresa Parnell handles our business account and she is absolutely wonderful. I always enjoy ordering pens, because it means I get to speak with her again. Everytime I call it is a warm friendly greeting and I always feel like her most important customer. Thank you so much. We look forward to doing business with you again soon.
Jamie Houston: US Army Dental Corps
While Commanding a Dental Unit in Iraq (Balad Iraq now known as LSA Anaconda) I became friendly with the local population. I learned that pens and pencils are scarce there. They rarely had anything to write with or to write on during the school year. I was able to give away 400 pens away during my 6 months there (that I had purchased with National Pen). I became known as their 'habibi' (dear one). They also asked me to teach English as well as run for Mayor of their small village. They did have difficulty understanding what it meant by "this pen has been stolen by...'” However, my affiliation continued as I sent pens back to the folks I met while in Iraq. I was asked to eat at a village elder’s house due to the extra care I gave to the children of the village. The village could easily use 1,000 pens to forge an even stronger tie with the school in the village. It would be National Pen’s way of “helping promote” education worldwide in the war-torn region of Iraq. Thanks for helping me spread the reputation of National Pen “worldwide”.
Walter Cox, The Law Firm Of Walter C. Cox
I tried your pens with name and address. Every client got two and they were very elated. After two months I received a phone call and it was from a person who had been handed one of my pens. He had recently lost his mother and needed help with her estate. The gentleman became a client and the estate turned out to be a million dollar plus estate. I spent several hours with him and went to Court with him and finally settled his affairs. My fee was $20 000 all from one little pen. Since then he has recommended two other clients and my fees from that pen have escalated greatly. Thank you for making my pens.
Rob & Jodi Hanks Pets Country Vacation
Your company brings a smile to my face every time I invest in your products. I own a small pet sitting & training business. Whenever my clients came to pick up their pets they would ask if I had a pen. I finally decided that creating pens with a thank you on it could be a marketing tool as well as a sincere thank you to our clients. We ordered pens that say "Thanks we appreciate you" with our business name & phone number as well as our motto on them. When I present our clients with their invoice I always attach a pen & let them know it is for them to keep. Now every time our clients return they are always excited to get another pen. Thank you for your ingenious ways of creating great & affordable items for our clients. We appreciate the sample ideas that you mail to us. This past year we sent out the Christmas CD's enclosed in the Christmas cards. The feedback was that our clients loved them. Now my husband is wanting the bendable laser light with magnet just for a fun way to say thank you.
Joan Roth, Need Socks Inc.
I sell strictly on the Internet with every order placed my pens and magnets are put in the package of each order. Pens always seem to get around picked up and used by someone other than the person that owns the pen which brings a new potential customer to our web site. We also give then to waitresses when we eat out. The magnet is a reminder for our customers it's time to place another order on NeedSocks.com when their friends and family visit and see the magnet on the refrigerator we get more customers to our web site NeedSocks.com. I have ordered the pens on numerous occasions for years and I still have people telling me I found a pen with your web site I'd like to place an order. Our business has grown from our giveaways thank you for your special offers that helped get our name out there. We started out in single garage we have now tripled our space. Our inventory and client data base has grown as well. Thank you again for your great products that a small company like ours can get so much advertising on our small advertising budget.
Officer Sheba Wooddell, Hubbard Police Dept. & Oregon Dept. of Transportation
HOW NATIONAL PEN HELPS SAVES LIVES: I have been a customer of National Pen for over 20 years with a variety of professions. I have always put my name on a National Pen product and ultimately needed to order again. I usually choose something which provides a useful need. People love it when you give them a gift and the only thing attached to that gift is a HAPPY GREETING or a THANK YOU. In my emergency services work; I have been a Reserve Police Officer for almost 17 years. While serving in Hubbard Oregon, I have recently started using my 200 pound St. Bernard Dog in Traffic Safety Presentations. Ranger Dawg is Certified through the Paws For Love Program out of Salem Oregon as a Therapy Dog and I as his Handler. Last November with the support of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the professional assistance of STACY at National Pen; we came up with a well-designed MEMO PAD as a Safety Reminder giveaway. A picture of Ranger Dawg the "Stay Away From Danger Dog" with his 4 Traffic Safety messages for all to to read is in full color on the front cover. I always have a box of the memo pads in the vehicle and it matters not where we are on or off duty; we always give out the memo pads with a personal Ranger Dawg reminder to Stay Safe. It's exciting to know the possibility of countless lives being saved out of 5,000 memo pads from Ranger Dawg the" Stay Away From Danger Dog and National Pen. And I too thank you.
Dee Anne Varner , 1st Choice Bank.
Every year we have a big Christmas Party for the Senior Citizens that bank with us I'm talking about 450 people. Every year we try to pick a better gift than the previous year something useful or unusual that will really get their attention. When you are throwing a party for so many people the budget does make a difference. So we like to shop at National Pen because we know we are getting a good deal for the money we are spending. This year we chose the robotic book light we know that many of our seniors like to read and with the light it will be really useful to them. We could tell they liked them during the party because they opened them up and turned on the lights and waved them during one of our songs( like you wave a lighter at a concert) . It is really special to see the customers enjoying the party since this party is the highlight of the year for many of them and to see them enjoying the gift so much is icing on the cake. We had many of the guest asking for extras to give to their friends and again the next week coming to the bank asking for them. Thank you so much for providing us with products that our customers enjoy that we can afford.
Lisa Fenner, Coldwell Banker Prestige Homes & Real Estate.
I ordered pens from you when I first started selling real estate. I started passing out a few here and there leaving them at the tables in restaurants, etc. I didn’t think much of it just hoping that someone might see it and call me. Last week my family and I were in a local restaurant and the head waitress walked over to my table. She said to me “You’re Lisa right? Could you please bring me in a few more pens all of my waitresses keep taking them because they are the best writing ones we’ve ever had!” And then one of her new waitresses walked over to the table and happened to be the very person that I had sold a house to the month prior! It turns out found me because she saw my pen lying on the table. I ended up selling her a home! Thanks guys... Great product!
Brian Vickers, Firegraphics.org Consulting Services
I started a consulting company a few years ago to help fire & EMS departments increase their funding through grants. Since 2005 I have been teaching workshops all over the country and I give handouts of my slide presentation for people to take notes on as well as a blue Javelin. I have gone through nearly 1 000 pens in 2 years but I know they have helped me to build my company into the most successful public safety grant writing outfit in the country with over $60 million raised for my clients to date. I have a lot more workshops scheduled so I'll definitely be ordering more before I run out.
Anna Marie Davis, One Stop Flooring & More
We are a small family owned Flooring Company and like many other companies we wasted plenty of money on print & TV ads! Then I purchased pens mugs and shirts from National Pen and it has increased our business by more than 50% which was way more than the print & TV advertising. Our current clients love getting goodies from us through the year and others see us out & about in our shirts and are always stopping us to ask for a business card...so we give them a business card and a business pen! I tell everyone I now save your advertising dollars! Buy from National Pen at a fraction of the cost & watch your business grow.
Dr. J.A. Parker, EnVision Eye Care
We use the pens as a tool to advertise our practice. We are a physicians office (Optometric practice) and we offer the Colorama Pens to our patients as they enter to complete their paperwork before being seen by the doctors. The patients love that they get to keep the pens after having filled out their paperwork. We also allow staff to carry pens like business cards. They can give pens to anyone at any time (in a restaurant at church etc.). It is a good way to get advertisement of the business; and since the pens are long-lasting we hope that our name will be with the person long enough to remember our name and know how to find us when they need us. We keep ordering the same pens for consistency in the marketplace.
David Stephens, C and D Security Solutions
We were a little wary about purchasing items for advertising. We were thinking more about radio and TV. We decided to purchase pens and use them as well as radio advertising. As a new company with very little capitol we were hoping for the best. In 2006 our company was lucky to make $3000.00 for the half of the year we were open. Radio advertising was our best bet or so we thought. After investing all the money into radio we turned up no leads. We started handing out the pens that we ordered to everyone we seen. It turns out that 90% of our leads and accounts came from the pens. People were leaving them lying around and we started getting our business up. This year to date we have had $60,000.00 worth of accounts due to the purchase of your pens. We still rely on your products to get us business. We thank you for your excellent customer service and great prices it has helped put our small business on the map.
Jay Berkowitz, Greentown Tax Service
I have a small tax business that I operate from my home. It has grown quickly in the five years I have had it I know that
part of it is the personal service. My clients look forward to a different pen each year and I have had new clients say they were referred by someone because I actually give them something
with their return other than a bill. National Pen's quality and affordable price has enabled me to give a "country thank-you" to my clients and in turn that has helped my business to
grow.
Fern Friedman, Rodeo Realty
I was at the market and gave a pen to the checkout girl and she now wants to buy a house from me!!! I am a realtor. I give this pen to everyone I meet. People will throw your card away but not a pen!
Julie Nixon, Top Hat And Tails Pet Sitting
I started my pet sitting business two years ago. Using the pens from National Pen imprinted with my company name phone
number and web site has been great for business. I hand them out at town fairs to current clients and I leave them in banks and grocery stores also. The possibilities for future business are
endless. Everyone LOVES how the pens write!!
Sterling Hyden, Hyden Insurance
We are a new Insurance Agency and my customers ask for the squiggle pens all the time. We had to order 500 more because the demand
was so high. I've had customers complain because everyone keeps trying to keep my pen because the way it looks and feels. Keep up the good work.
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