| The data preloaded USB flash drive is a promotional | | | | A successful piece of promotional material will both |
| item that is ever increasing in popularity. Branding the | | | | engage the audience and make them want to revisit |
| flash drive with your logo on the outside is somewhat | | | | the material, at the same time it must get the message |
| of a no brainer and some companies also offer you | | | | about your business across or you might as well give |
| the option to put a telephone number or email address | | | | them a chart CD. |
| on the outside. The addition of contact details on the | | | | Popularly preloaded examples of preloaded material |
| outside will certainly increase the amount of people | | | | are: |
| who contact you after you've handed them out so it is | | | | |
| definitely a service worth looking for when you choose | | | | 1. Video Files - You can put on amusing |
| your USB flash drive supplier. However, with up to | | | | advertisements that will make the user want to keep |
| 8GBs worth of solid state memory to play with on the | | | | the material on the USB Flash Drive. Make sure you're |
| inside, there is much more you can do to once you | | | | getting your message across at the same time though. |
| enter the world of data preloading. | | | | 2. Images - Images of your new products |
| Pre-loaded material can be anything from power point | | | | 3. PDFs - Great for presentations and course notes. |
| slides to video games. You can put almost any | | | | PDFs run on free software unlike word documents, |
| application you want onto a USB Flash Drive with such | | | | which makes them a popular choice. |
| a vast array of possibilities to choose from you can | | | | 4. Link to web page - Simple but straight to the point, |
| get it both very right and extremely wrong. | | | | allows you to update the content they are accessing. |
| To make sure you don't ruin your promotional gift you | | | | Often set to run automatically on insertion of the drive. |
| have to plan carefully the content you want to preload. | | | | 5. PPT - If you're presenting at a conference a flash |
| Ask yourself the impact you want your gift to have, | | | | drive is an easy way to allow your clients to take the |
| do you want it to amuse the receiver or do you | | | | presentations home with them |
| actually want it to be useful to them? Funny videos | | | | There is no rule saying you have to choose, you could |
| are great, but is the person going to remember your | | | | preload all of these. They can even be protected from |
| brand or just the big ape playing the drums. Are they | | | | deletion, but this is actually not advised as if they can't |
| going to want to keep that tediously long load of facts | | | | delete the material they may throw away the drive |
| about your company on the flash drive, or are they | | | | altogether. The challenge for you therefore is to give |
| going to delete them for a video of a Granny drop | | | | them something they want to keep and make sure |
| kicking her offspring | | | | they know who gave it to them. |