{"id":87,"date":"2023-09-07T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:29:29","slug":"stop-buying-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/stop-buying-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Buying Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don&#8217;t get us wrong, pens can be great if they are important to your brand. However, if they aren&#8217;t, we recommend forgetting them completely. No one pays attention to the branding on pens and even if they do, the pen will soon be forgotten in a cup on someone&#8217;s desk or lost in a junk drawer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be thinking, &#8220;okay so what&#8217;s a better idea for my next expo?&#8221; Don&#8217;t worry we have options that don&#8217;t include buying one item in bulk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 Create a print-on-demand store where people can choose whatever they want before the conference<br>\u2705 Create a GIFT CARD to your online shop offering people a free t-shirt, mug, hat, etc.<br>\u2705 Create merch for the people in your booth to wear that is eye-catching and on-brand to draw people in to your brand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story short: don\u2019t buy a bunch of the same item (especially pens!) for your next conference. It\u2019s not sustainable, it\u2019s not personal and it doesn\u2019t truly reflect who you are as a brand. At the end of the conference, you\u2019ll be stuck with a bunch of pens and nowhere to put them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s a memorable piece of merch you got from the last expo you went to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get us wrong, pens can be great if they are important to your brand. However, if they aren&#8217;t, we recommend forgetting them completely. No one pays attention to the branding on pens and even if they do, the pen will soon be forgotten in a cup on someone&#8217;s desk or lost in a junk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10,14,3,11],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-expos","tag-junk-swag","tag-print-on-demand","tag-swag","tag-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}