Pens, mugs, t-shirts, and baseball caps are all nice things, but they really don’t have the impact as they used to in the past. Everyone has seen promotional pens that run out of ink, mugs that don’t look good on their office desk or kitchen counter, and clothing that wears down or fades after only a handful of washes. These relatively inexpensive promotional good really do not last long once they get into the hands of your clients. Realistically what impression are you leaving with your clients when your promotional good breaks on them?

However Custom USB Flash Drives are much different than their cheap promotional brothers. In fact, Custom USB flash drives can last years, not days or weeks like some other promotional goods. This translates to your money literally going farther in the long run. If you couple the expected lifespan of a custom flash drive with custom printing and preloaded content, you could quite literally create a promotion that could your best ever!

So what makes Custom USB flash drives so special, and how can they help you and your business? Well for starters flash drives have a much higher perceived value than almost any other promotional item on the market today. If someone was to give you a choice of a custom printed pen, or a custom printed USB drive, which one would you choose?

Secondly USB flash drives have higher perceived value because they literally do have more value! With a Custom flash drive, you can get your logo printed right onto the drive itself with contact information on the back. You can preload the flash drive with whatever content you desire and provide your clients with an interactive experience, instead of one that runs out of ink… Couple these two things with full custom packaging with your company artwork printed on the outside and you have a really powerful promotion. Try to do that with a mug.

Flash drives also provide an often unforeseen value, and that is that a customer can actually USE your promotion. Flash drives come in a wide range of data capacities and if you get a custom flash drive with some extra capacity, clients can use your flash drive to store their own information! By allowing clients to store their own information on your drive, you ensure that these clients will continually use your drive and not just toss them out.

Lastly you can equip your promotion with absolute highest value possible; you can promote your products and services with a custom shaped USB drive. Custom Shaped USB drives allow you to design your own flash drive from the material used, the size of the drive, the color, the capacity, etc. By fully customizing your very own flash drive, you can create a USB drive that matches the exact theme of your promotion, alter it to fit your target audience, or simply amaze your clients with something they have never seen before.

Now one of the biggest reasons why some orders in our industry take longer to process than others is because some companies have complex procedures that make sense to them, but may not make sense to their clients. However, at Premium USB, we have learned that our company must be on the same page as our clients if we are to get their orders to them when they need them. This is why we have taken the time to outline our Custom USB ordering process below in 5 easy to read steps.

1. Browse our Site: Before you submit an online inquiry form or contact us, brows our site! PremiumUSB offers hundreds of customization options on personalized USB drives ranging from different styles, shapes, data capacities, colors, printing options, and accessories. With these almost unlimited customization combinations, you can rest assured that your promotion will be unique and eye catching at your next big event.

2. Request a Quote: Use our online inquiry form via our Contact Us page, or simply give us a call at 877-992-3766 and talk to one of our friendly sales staff today. Please provide us with as much information as possible, such as the desired style, data capacity, color, etc., and we will give you your quote as well as any additional information you requested ASAP!

3. Send in Your Order: Artwork, and Data: Once you are happy with what you have constructed, the next step is to send Premium USB your order, artwork, and data. The sooner we receive all the necessary information, the sooner we will be able to get started on your drives. To ensure a speedy turn time, please keep in close contact with your sales associate here at Premium USB as complications do arise and being able to reach you will prevent delays.

4. Confirm Your Order: Once everything is received, we will send you a virtual proof of your custom flash drives. This proof contains everything and is the final step to get your drives rolling through our production process. We are unable to start your order if we have not received approval of your proofs. Once approval is given, Premium USB immediately starts to mass produce your drives using our industrial grade production equipment and strict quality control procedures.

5. Receive Your Custom Drives: Once your drives are produced, they will be shipped from our facilities using your chosen shipping method and will soon arrive in your hands! An email will be sent with tracking codes so you may track your drives progress all the way to your door.

We would like to take this time to reiterate that the best thing you can do to ensure you get your ordered drives when you need them is to be in constant contact with your sales associate and to supply Premium USB with all the necessary information.

It has become extremely common to see companies promote their products/services with CDs or DVDs; even at trade shows where companies compete for new clients. People are getting bored and when there are several companies handing out discs, the uniqueness just isn’t there.

But if you were to upgrade your project to use personalized USB drives, we’re pretty sure you would stand out at your next big show. At Premium USB we offer a huge selection of customization options for USB flash drives. With our customization options, you can give your next big promotion a Digital Makeover!

Why upgrade you ask? Well choosing to upgrade is always a tough decision, but let us try to make it a little easier. First for the capacity oriented, customized USB flash drives can hold as much if not more information than traditional media like CDs or DVDs. This equates to being able to store more promotional material; which might just help you pick up a few extra clients along the way.

Next, custom USB drives actually have more unique customization options than traditional media. With a DVD for example, you can customize the disc artwork, the package, the package inserts and entrapments, if available, and that’s about it. But with flash drives you can customize the USB artwork, the package, the package inserts, as well as the added bonus of being able to design the USB drive itself! Custom shaped USB drives are the perfect way to promote your products or services because you can take your promotion that one step extra and truly shock anyone who happens to see your drives.

Lastly, durability and longevity are big issues with promotions. Discs can be smudged, scratched, cracked, and easily broken just from normal use. Discs can also be affected by sunlight and lessen the longevity of your information. Personalized USB drives, on the other hand, contain your information digitally – ensuring that even if the casing is used and abused, your information stays protected. USB drives also have 10x the life expectancy of optical media. As an added note, customized USB flash drives also last longer as a promotional item due to customers and clients that are much less likely to throw away your promotion than if it were on a CD or DVD.

At Premium USB we have witnessed the power and the shocked faces of not only our customers as we show them what USB drives can do, but also our customer’s clients. CDs and DVDs will probably be around for many years to come, but as each day passes, their marketing factor is constantly decreasing due to advancing technology. Personalized USB drives are a rather new promotional tool and are still climbing in popularity. Get your Digital Makeover from Premium USB and notice the results for yourself.

USB 3.0 SuperSpeed flash drives and other USB 3.0 hardware offer much faster transfer speeds, cost less, are backwards compatible with USB 2.0, use less energy, and allow for bi-directional data transferring. With bi-directional data traveling, unlike USB 2.0 where you could only send or receive data at one time, USB 3.0 devices are able to send and receive data simultaneously.

This is extremely useful because as file sizes continue to grow, the time it takes to transfer those files also increases. For example, you can transfer a CD’s worth of MP3s in about a second. With USB 3.0’s speed advantage, nearly 10X as fast as USB 2.0, it will take less time to transfer large files and even less time to transfer smaller files.

Quite possibly the best feature to USB 3.0 SuperSpeed, besides being much faster than its predecessor, is the fact that it is backwards compatible. This backwards compatibility allows SuperSpeed to connect to the already hundreds of millions of USB devices on the market today. So don’t worry, you won’t need to throw out all those USB devices or upgrade hardware just because the USB has changed. However, in order to take advantage of USB 3.0’s speed, cost, and power efficiency, you will need either a USB 3.0 device or personal computer that is 3.0 compatible.

Below is a quick reference guide to the advantages of USB 3.0

· SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over Hi-Speed USB.

· SuperSpeed USB is a Sync-N-Go technology that minimizes user wait-time.

· SuperSpeed USB will provide Optimized Power Efficiency. No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements.

· SuperSpeed USB is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platforms. Hosts support USB 2.0 legacy devices.