Hello and welcome to the latest video blog from the Pen Warehouse.

We have just returned from a very successful show at PSI out in Germany and it was fantastic to see a few familiar faces from our UK customer base as well as making some great new contacts across Europe as well as further a field. We had the opportunity to show our fantastic new trade show stand and were very grateful for all the positive feedback from distributors and suppliers alike.

With a very short space of time until the Trade Only National Show we’re now completing the final preparations. We are extremely excited about showing the full version of our new stand at the show; if you were impressed at PSI just wait until you see the one we have plained for Trade Only.

We have some very exciting special offers to talk to you about at the show so make sure you come and visit us on stand K16. We are saving a couple of these offers for the day but we have let one out the bag early, Contour Ball Pens are now 11.5p each for all orders of 500 pieces upwards including a one colour print to one position and remember we were the first supplier to unlock the largest print area on this most popular Promotional Pen.

If full colour digital printing is a favourite of yours then it will definitely be worth your while coming to visit our stand – sorry but I can’t say any more at this stage.  Will also have our brand new metal Pens Catalogue, Recherché, available for collection on the day.

In our last video blog I talked about the Product Videos we have created for you, our network of loyal distributors, to help you add value to your website. We had a lot of interest in bespoking these videos for customers, remember for just £35 we will customise these videos to include your corporate look and contact details and allow you to decide the content appearing on the closing screen so you have a truly unique video for your website.

For those of you wanting to use the generic videos which are completely unbranded these are free, simply visit www.promotional.tv and follow the embed instructions, it couldn’t be simpler.

I hope to see as many of you as possible at the show next week, in the meantime if you have any questions or queries about our products or services then please feel free to contact one of our friendly sales staff who will be more than happy to help, call on 01252 400270 or via email at sales@pens.co.uk

See you soon for our next video blog update.

Welcome to our second video blog, if this is your first time joining us then let me introduce myself; my name is Rob Hayes and I head up the marketing team here at The Pen Warehouse. I will be bringing you regular video blogs on the latest news from our business as well as updates on new products and services we are constantly developing for you, our network of loyal distributors.

In our first video blog I talked about the benefits of our recently redeveloped website www.pens.co.uk; we looked at the distributor’s blog section, the process we use in the allocation of leads to distributors and the options available to leave links to your website.

If you didn’t catch our first video blog then please feel free to view this on our website, it is located in the video blog category, under the latest news section on the right hand side of the home page.
Today, I am going to talk about the promotional pen product videos that we have spent the last year producing in order to provide you, our customers, with a unique value adding tool for your website.

Product videos offer the consumer an insight into a product and it’s attributes in a way that simply isn’t possible with a static image.

Video content offers a 360 degree view of the product and allows the viewer to understand how artwork will look when wrapped around the barrel of the pen, again, something isn’t possible with an static image on a website.

It is also important to consider the impact product videos will have on the way search engines value your website.

Firstly, by using product videos you are giving visitors to your site a reason to stay on your site for longer, your customers are more likely to sit and watch a 2 to 3 minute product video than they are to read 2 to 3 minutes of text about the same product.

Secondly, the emphasis search engines place on video content has increased recently – video content is now appearing in the natural listings. Check this out for yourself by searching for ”

We have currently produced around 80 product videos and we will continue to produce at least one per week for the foreseeable future.

Why not have a look at our Product Videos on www.pens.co.uk, if you would like to embed these videos onto your website, then please visit www.promotional.tv, our 3rd party service provider where simple, easy to follow embed instruction will show you, what you need to do.

Make sure you tune in soon for our next video blog update.

Welcome to our brand new video blog, my name is Rob Hayes and I head up the marketing team here, at the Pen Warehouse. Over the coming months, I will be talking to you about our exciting new products, special offers and latest business news, as well as taking you on a tour around our website and helping you become more familiar with it’s layout and contents.

Back in June this year, we relaunched our website, pens.co.uk, providing you, our distributors, with a valuable new tool to help your business. Our new easy to use interface, was designed to create a friendly and appealing end user site, that allowed us to attract new potential business, which could then be passed back to our network of distributors.

To maintain the status of our business as a strict trade only, supplier, we have implemented a range of procedures that ensures we can easily pass on the results of our hard work and investment, to our network of distributors, providing new business for you, and greater flexibility for potential future end users. Let me give you an example of how this works…

Once we have received an enquiry via our website, the very first question, any end user is asked is…”Do you have an existing distributor of promotional pens?”. If the answer is yes, that enquiry will then be directed back to that particular distributor.

If no distributor exists, our next question would be to ask if they have a preference to use a local distributor, in which case we would pass the lead on to an approved business in the local vicinity.

If there is no preference to location, then the next step in the process would be to look at the past records for our distributors and see who has previously purchased the product that has been requested and pass the enquiry to them.

Finally, if the product in question has not be purchased recently from any of our distributors, we will take a look at any product reviews on our website and base our choice on that.

When developing our new look site, we put a lot of time into creating areas that provided our distributors with various opportunities to participate in, and benefit from our powerful new features. With you in mind, we have created three new key areas that I would like to tell you about…

To begin with, we have the, “Distributor’s Blog”. This provides you, our distributors, with your own online forum, where you can share your thoughts, ideas and comments on industry topics, or specific products, with other like-minded businesses.

Secondly, to make it easier to voice your opinions and make your own choices on our products, we provide a review section on each product page which, after you have purchased the product, will enable you to not only share your thoughts but also gives you an area in which you can leave a link to your business website. This allows any future potential end users to view your comments and be directed back to your business.

And last, but not least, we are committed to producing at least one blog post every single day of the week, keeping our website current and up to date. We love to hear feedback from you and welcome your comments on these posts which, once approved, will also provide you with another opportunity, to share a link to your own website, directing more potential business your way!

We look forward to working with you to provide an unrivalled business experience.

Thanks for listening and join us again soon for our next video blog update!

Welcome to the 5^th and final Pen Spinning Tutorial brought to you by the Pen Warehouse, specialist in printed pens. Over the last two months we have produced a series of Pen Spinning Tutorials to shed some light on this latest craze in object manipulation that has recently become very popular across Europe.

We have enlisted the help of a Pen Spinning expert, Scott Menzies, to bring you a series of tutorials that talks you through the basic, fundamental tricks required to be a ‘Pen Spinner’.  In the first weeks tutorial Scott talked through the very first trick all Pen Spinners must be familiar with, The Thumb- Around. In recent weeks we have seen Scott demonstrate a further 3 unique Pen Spinning tricks that has culminated in the final video of the series, The Combo. In this final tutorial video Scott expertly demonstrates how all four tricks are linked together to form a combination of moves to impress your friends and work colleagues.

As this is the final video in our series of tutorials, we would love to see any attempts of you trying to execute any of the tricks that have been demonstrated in the series. We hope to bring you another series of these tutorials early next year; you have been warned so get practising.

Here at the Pen Warehouse our core operation is concerned with printing promotional pens, pencils and accessories. However, over the last couple of months we have brought you a selection of tutorials on pen spinning. Whilst we appreciate our collection of pen spinning tutorials is unlikely to make us any additional sales, we felt it our duty as experts in all things pen related to share with you these exciting tutorials on the latest craze in object manipulation to sweep across the globe.

Pen Spinning has been popular in Japan since the late 1970’s but has only recently swept across Europe. Once a form of entertainment for school children has now developed into a phenomenon that has a gripped a generation who are looking for new tricks and innovative objects to spin. Just spend a few minutes reading a handful of the hundreds of forums and blogs dedicated to this aspiring art form and you will see just how passionate some of these kids really are. There are untold tales of new forms of trickery and developments of pen spinning; some claiming to have spun forks in the lunch hall whilst others talk of spinning rulers around hands instead of a pen. We are not suggesting you immerse your self to this level, however, give the Pen Spinning Tutorial a try and let us know how you get on.

We will be bringing you are final video in the series within the next week. Scott will provide a demonstration of all the tricks he has talked about in his tutorials over the last couple of months and will show you some links to ensure you can impress your friends and colleagues. If you have any video evidence of your attempts at Pen Spinning then why not send them in, we may even feature them on the website for you.

Printing Promotional Pens is the core function at The Pen Warehouse, but as you know over the last few weeks we have brought you a series of Pen Spinning tutorials from our object manipulation expert Scott Menzies. When we first stumbled across this innovative new art form we were bowled over by the complexity of the tricks some Pen Spinners are able to execute, with the obvious connection to our line of business we felt it our duty to share our excitement and passion for pens by bringing you a series of Pen Spinning tutorials so you too can learn and experience the art of Pen Spinning.

In the first week Scott talked about and demonstrated the first of the four fundamental tricks in the Pen Spinning world – The Thumb Around. As Scott highlighted in the video it is essential to grasp the basics before you can progress any further withy this latest craze, once you have mastered the basics the rest of the tricks talked about in the tutorials will be a lot easier to execute. If you missed the first tutorial don’t worry just click on the Pen Spinning Blog and you will find tutorials one and two to view at your leisure.

This weeks Pen Spinning Tutorial sees Scott talk viewers through the third fundamental trick in the Pen Spinning world – The Sonic. Once the first two tricks, The Thumb Around and The Charge, have been mastered The Sonic will allow you to create combinations of moves to impress your friends and colleagues.

We will continue to release weekly tutorials providing you with detailed explanations on this latest craze in object manipulation. Make sure you return next week to catch tutorial number four.

Pen Spinning Tutorials brought to you by The Pen Warehouse – the specialist in promotional pens, printed pens and personalised pens.

Continuing with the deviation away from our core business of selling promotional pens we are pleased to bring you the second video in our series of pen spinning tutorials.

Printed pens are our first passion, but we wanted to bring a bit of light hearted entertainment to your day. So what better way than providing a series of pen spinning tutorials so you can impress your friends and colleagues, showing them there is more to pens than people may first think?

There is in fact a strong following around the globe for the this latest craze in object manipulation and when we stumbled across some videos of these artists showing their skills we were bowled over and we wanted to learn more. Not wanting to keep this little gem hidden we wanted to share our excitement and passion for pens by producing a series of tutorials so you too can enjoy the art of Pen Spinning.

In the first video, Scott Menzies, our resident pen spinning expert, talked you through the first fundamental trick in the pen spinning world – The Thumb Around. It is essential to learn each of these tricks in order, the real test will come at the end of the series of tutorials when you try and link the tricks together to create a combo. In this weeks tutorial you will be learning another fundamental trick – The Charge. Take your time to listen to Scott’s explanation of how to execute the trick properly, your patience will be tested, you have been warned. Whilst practising it might also be worth letting your colleagues know, just so they are prepared for pens flying in their direction.

Make sure you join us again next week for the third video in our series of Pen Spinning tutorials. Pen Spinning Tutorials brought to you by The Pen Warehouse, specialist in printed pens.

We have ventured away slightly from our core business of selling printed pens and promotional pencils to bring you a series of tutorials on pen spinning. Whilst we appreciate that producing a series of videos on the latest craze to hit our streets is not likely to sell any additional promotional pens we wanted to bring a bit of light hearted entertainment to your day and give you some ammunition to impress your mates with.

Pen Spinning has in fact been popular in Japan since the 1970’s, but it has only been over the last few years that this latest craze in object manipulation has really taken off across Europe. The reason for its popularity is founded in the few barriers people have to encounter to be involved in this art, if you have a pen you can try Pen Spinning. Even the most ardent of Pen Spinning artists will use a pen that can be purchased from any high street retailer (or requested as a sample from a Promotional Pen supplier), the Pen Spinner will then make modifications to ensure weight is evenly distributed across the pen.

Our resident expert Scott Menzies will be talking you through the basics of the latest craze sweeping across the globe. Have a look at Scott’s Tutorial and give the trick a try, if you have any feedback or would like some more advice on how to improve your pen spinning technique then why not leave us a comment and we will get back to you. If you mange to master the trick, why not send us a video of your attempt? We promise we won’t laugh and if we consider it to be worthy of a mention we will publish it on the site. We will back next week with a brand new trick for you to learn. Enjoy