http://www.triplepundit.com/2005/10/corporate-trinkets-a-waste-and-a-waste-of-money/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2005/10/corporate-trinkets-a-waste-and-a-waste-of-money/comment-page-1/#comment-13434 JohnN Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:01:28 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2005/10/corporate-trinkets-a-waste-and-a-waste-of-money/#comment-13434 As a recipient of some of this stuff, I agree. I seem to get a lot of pens - pens that look very impressive but don't write very well. This seems deeply symbolic of modern corporate dysfunction. All surface, no usefulness. I’d appreciate a pen that wrote very well. For a while my company was giving away luggage tags – tags that were metal (so they’d trigger every airport security device) and that were bordered in such a way that they’d cover up the company name on our own business cards. Give me more of that. I like some of the suggestions in the post. I’d add the following: a real technical white paper that taught me something. Something I’d use at the show but not need to take home. A free recharge of my laptop battery? How about bringing in a chamber music group to play for us? There must be a lot of useful things better than pens and notepads. As a recipient of some of this stuff, I agree. I seem to get a lot of pens – pens that look very impressive but don’t write very well. This seems deeply symbolic of modern corporate dysfunction. All surface, no usefulness. I’d appreciate a pen that wrote very well.
For a while my company was giving away luggage tags – tags that were metal (so they’d trigger every airport security device) and that were bordered in such a way that they’d cover up the company name on our own business cards. Give me more of that.
I like some of the suggestions in the post. I’d add the following: a real technical white paper that taught me something. Something I’d use at the show but not need to take home. A free recharge of my laptop battery? How about bringing in a chamber music group to play for us? There must be a lot of useful things better than pens and notepads.

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