What’s the lead goal of your marketing strategy? Is it securing new customers? Expanding into a new market? Gaining more followers on social media? While it can be tempting to focus solely on digital marketing to achieve your goals, using unique promotional products to support your digital campaign can yield better results. The reason for this is that promotional products tend to be kept and used for a longish time – on average seven months.
In the past, people were happy to accept promotional products made of plastic. But plastic isn’t fantastic anymore.
People want more from promotional products
For years plastic has been the material of choice for promotional products. This is because plastic is cheap, it can be quickly mass-produced and it’s easy to mould into different shapes. Since the 1950’s around 8.5 million tons of plastic have been produced, but only about 9% of it can be recycled. The rest ends up in landfills. 😔
Today, with an increased awareness of the damage plastic causes to the environment, people are shunning plastic for eco-conscious alternatives and that includes promotional products too. By swapping plastic promotional pens for plantable Sprout pencils, you’re cutting back on plastic waste and giving the planet new plants instead.
Why pick plantable pencils for your unique promotional products
As well as being unique and fun to use, plantable Sprout pencils are fully sustainable.
We only use sustainably sourced wood to make our pencils. This means for every tree that is cut down to make Sprout pencils; another is planted to replace it. The writing material is made from organic, non-toxic graphite or clay – lead is never used in our pencils. The seed capsule found at the top of the pencil is made from cellulose, a plant-based material. When placed in soil, the seed capsule decomposes, allowing the non-GMO seeds to sprout into either herbs, flowers, vegetables and even trees.
Plantable Sprout pencils make great conversation starters, and they help to grow a green mindset. We believe no other promotional product does this!
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Ways to customize your plantable pencils
As standard, our plantable pencils come with the name of the seed engraved on them. If you want to personalize your pencil, we offer a range of customization options. This includes:
- Choice of graphite or color pencils (8 colors are available)
- Pick of 11 seeds (please note that some seeds are only available in certain regions)
- Selecting sharpened or unsharpened pencils
- Engraving of your logo and company message
- Color printing of your logo and message is also available for businesses in the EU
- Featuring your pencil on a single card that’s customized with your message
- Gifting 3 or 5 pencils in display boxes (the boxes can be branded with your company logo and message)
With so much choice, your unique promotional products will make people stop and say “Wow”.
Brands who love Sprout’s unique promotional products
We’re always thrilled when a brand chooses plantable Sprout pencils to be part of their promotional product range. Here are a couple of the brands we work with:
Eurelectric
Eurelectric, an EU electricity organization, included plantable Sprout pencils on single card as part of their speaker’s gift package. Sprout pencils are a perfect match for the summit’s focus on sustainability.
“Sprout pencils are a very good way to promote sustainable living among the guests of our events.” – Eurelectric
The Sustainable City
The Sustainable City in Dubai is a net zero property development which includes apartments, offices, food outlets and healthcare facilities. Customized plantable Sprout pencils are used as gifts for visitors to conferences and expos.
“The symbolic act of planting something after use is amazing. It’s good for opening a conversation.” – The Sustainable City
We hope these cases inspire you to include unique, sustainable promotional products in your marketing.
Grow a green mindset with your unique promotional products
Living a sustainable lifestyle is the responsibility of individuals, but companies and organizations must also do their part to protect the planet. A simple way to start is switching plastic promotional products for eco-conscious alternatives – like plantable Sprout pencils.
Sprout pencils are practical, they’re fun to use and people are amazed when they realize that the pencils grow into plants – we believe you can’t find a better unique promotional product.
Ordering your pencils is super easy; pick your pencil, choose your seed, decide if you want to customize your pencils and then contact us for an order form. 🙂
If you want to know more about Sprout or if you’ve got a question about our plantable pencils, send us a message. Our team is here to help.