Custom branded USB keys are our best selling category of promotional products. In our digital age essentially most office workers and all students will use flashdrives for data storage. What better medium to brand your logo than on a fantastic custom branded USB key? With customised USB keys the thing that you know with certainty is that they will never ever be disposed of unlike things like promotional pens. As long as it contains data such as your photos or documents custom branded USb keys will also never be carlessly misplaced or lost quite as easily as say a stressball. These factors combined make a promotional usb key a supurb value for money promotional item.

With customised USB keys supplied by us we can organise on your behalf to upload data. There are two options to do this.

Firstly: Regular data upload. This is simply a file drag and drop transfer which we can provide on your behalf for free or for a small fee for larger data files

Secondly: Hard coding of your data file. This is where we physically split your memory drive prior to production. One half of the memory chip will contain your data. This data cannot be subsequently deleted or written over by your recipient. This ensures that you can promote or provide essential data. The remaining half of the chip will be a normal flashdrive for your recipient to use as per normal.

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Our Aeroplane Custom Flash Drive is the right tool for any marketing jingle, slogan, conference event featuring anything to do with tourism, travel, expansion or growth topics. Being one of our unique promotional merchandise this premium gift is perfect to have a simple brand name or website on it. For further customisation, you can also have it tailored with custom coloured wings and tail and body to suit corporate colours.

If its novelty and catchy promotional products you are seeking but also one that would be kept, then this custom flash drive is the one. Add in a solid 4GB or 8GB memory to it and its a worthy premium corporate gift to your clients. (memory starts at 1GB on our promo flash drives)

To find out more about this personalised flash drive or our range of branded flash drives, click to view or simply contact us for ideas and quotations.

Within our promotional USB section we have a new product. This is a WebKey. A web key looks and feels like a promotional flashdrive however it contains no memory. So what is it used for? It is used to launch websites and URL’s. Therefore you just insert the USB into your drive and it will automatically launch your browser as well as the website programmed in the USB drive.

Its really really popular in the USA but not so much here in Australia. Its advantages are:

- Low Cost
- Economical for Mass Hand outs
- A variety of innovative packaging options available

This promotional webkey makes for a terrific alternate promotional product when used in conjunction with other marketing.

I’ve been hearing more and more about Kogan televisions in various websites and blogs lately. For those who dont know Kogan is a young Australian fellow who sells Kogan branded T.V sets online. What I found curious about him is that he really makes dramatic statements regardless of authenticity and his comments more often than not are really really out there! This makes him perfect fodder for the media to latch on and in the process this gives him free publicity.

Securing free publicity is not easy and never happens instantly. However no matter who you are you it can be accessible to you and consistent efforts will help you get some rewards.

I recently read about Justin Herald who grew a $50 outlay selling t shirts at Parklea Markets to a multi million dollar enterprise. One aspect about him was that he managed to build publicity momentum. How? Well he had an odd type of personality & in his words “ In a quarter of an hour, you could email a pitch to five journalists, place three follow-up calls, or research a new media outlet to see whether it might be a PR opportunity for you. ”

He first appeared on an Alan Jones radio segment, later he realised that journalists often found their next story by checking out their peers….. this led to his next interview with A Current Affair. The next morning he got heaps of calls from retailers wanting to stock his products.

Here are some tips that may help you garner some PR for your business:

1) Persevere and put in the time to develop new ideas to spark media interest. Then follow up with journalists that you want publicity from.

2) Start small. Locally in fact. Its easier and gives you credibility as you are already a local.

3) Alternatively focus on one area. Eg. Marketing Press or Engineering Press only.

4) Write down what you achieve and 3 things to do to achieve them.

Ultimately persevere and focus. Its a daily task to follow up and to strategise. Pitch and follow up with phone calls to journalists!!

New to us we have this devilishly delishiously looking customizable flashdrive. This Ice Block is actually a fully functional promotional USB key in a hilariously cute form factor.

It still uses our very best Grade A flashdrives and has a large smooth surface to brand your logo. We have two flavours (metaphorically of course) to choose from being a white inner (for vanilla) and a green and brown specked one (for mint choc chip).

This tasty promotional iceblock flashdrive is available from us today!!

This year we are really promoting epoxy domed products. Whats an Epoxy Dome? Its basically a clear rubber bubble which we use to encase and protect a full colour digital print. This is then stuck onto promotional products such as personalised keyrings and until now also Promotional Flashdrives. The branding effect of having a custom epoxy domed promotional USB key is that the result looks and feel amazing. The vibrancy of a full colour print is enhanced by the clear rubber Epoxy which creates a stunning effect and can make an item feel more expensive than it actually is.

What is the best capacity to buy when it comes to Flash Drives?

That’s really dependent on your budget and needs.

It’s not really a secret but most or our corporate clients opt for 1gigabyte, 2 gigabyte and 4gigabyte promotional flashdrives. These capacities give quite a lot of value but did you know that by upgrading to 8gigabytes and above can effectively double the available memory capacity but not double the price? The increase in capacity will make your promotional flash memory investment last longer.

We still get enquiries for 512MB are they are still available in certain styles, but when it comes to using it and making it last, it is half the size of 1GB but not half the cost.

To give you some tangible numbers a 1GB Branded Thumb Drive, you could save approximately 2000-2300 average excel documents (with a file size of 430KB). Or roughly 550 jpeg digital photos on a 1GB Flash Drive.

With all our products the larger the quantity will lead to larger savings. Check out some of our newer styles of promotional flash drives today!!W

Did anyone read the news today about IBM? Apparently there was a big computer security conference hosted by IBM. As part of the event all participants (I could assume a mix of clients, business partners, leading stake holders from national companies around the world) all received a pack including a conference flashdrive intended to contain relevant information. Instead the conference USB key contained a Malware computer virus! As of that moment every single major newspaper, technology blog, business paper, I.T related publication as well as all the participants of course are talking about the this. The negative press, the potential to damage computers, the embarrasment, the loss of credibility and even the potential loss of clients would be immense. & Why? From my experience & knowledge of USB drives it seems a purchasing manager decided to opt for the very very cheapest promotional USB stick they can find…. The thing is the very cheapest branded USB sticks tend to be recycled flash memory. That is USB chips that have been scavanged and re-packed to sell as new. That’s why they are so cheap. In fact IBM was a high profile case there are many instances which this has occured. Our client telstra also had this happen to them last year when they purchased cheap USB keys through a “dodgy,” cheap vendor.

We at Cubic Promote sell only Grade A custom brandable USB keys. Our product has a lifetime warranty and is quality checked twice before we deliver. We simply can’t afford to supply an inferior not for value product because of the caliber of clients we supply to which includes government departments, the police, national companies and many others. If our custom USB keys faulter or contain virus’s we simply would be out of business!! Trust us to deliver a value for money superior product. call us today to find out more about our branded flashdrives!!

I hope everyone had a good and safe Easter holiday break. We’ve been working with a few customers lately on promotional flash drives with laser engraving. If you have an image that has a lot of detail laser engraving is definitly the option to choose as opposed to normal pad printing. For engraved corporate flash drives we are able to offer engraving as a free upgrade. You see the thing that happens when there is a lot of detail to be branded is that the ink in the nozel of our pad printers tend to get clogged up leading to a smudged result in branded flashdrives. With laser engraving though the effect is different because the high heat laser beam is computer controlled and allows for a lot more detail. Just check out the Australian Emblem crest in the image below which is one that we did for a government agency recently. We managed to get almost all the little details in the space of a flashdrive.

We are getting more and more stocked promotional flash drives by the week. This week we are releasing a more conservative but utterly classy promotional flash drive which we have named the PQ. All our promotional flash drives of course come backed with a 20 year data retention warranty. We are that confident about the quality of our USB products!