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Solar Phone Charger - iPhone Compatible!

I love my iPhone - nearly everyone I know seems to have one too - so I'm always stoked when I find new, eco-responsible swag items that also happen to be iPhone accessories. Solar phone chargers have been available in the promotional products industry for a couple of years, but this is the first one I've seen that works with iPhone. This Solar Phone Charger is a brand-new item from one of our favorite "green" promotional products lines and we added it to Ecoswag.com yesterday... just in time for holiday giving!

 This cute little gadget stores the energy from the sun's rays for up to 50 hours. Simply plug the charged unit into your phone or other portable device for between 50-85 minutes to recharge the battery. In a pinch, this could be a life saver for situations involving a dead cell battery and no place to plug in a phone!

Like most things in the technology world, solar cellphone chargers were really expensive when they first came out and have come down in price over time. This brand new model comes in around the $25/ea range depending on quantity, making it an affordable and appropriate corporate gift idea. This is an excellent swag idea for technology, telecom or green energy companies.

INTERESTED IN THIS ITEM CUSTOMIZED WITH YOUR COMPANY LOGO? 
We'd love to hear from you if you have questions about this item or want to talk about ordering them for your company or non-profit. We also have other styles of solar chargers not shown on our website if you'd like a wider selection to choose from.

Simply contact me by email: diane@ecoswag.com or call Ecoswag.com toll-free: 877-459-6792

Thanks for reading & keep coming back for more eco-responsible swag ideas!

New Ecoswag: Promotional Flash Drives with Eco-Appeal

Heads Up! Ecoswag.com recently overhauled our entire selection of promotional flash drives and I think you're going to like what you see. We now offer five new styles of earth-friendly USB flash drives on our site that have eco-appeal, lifetime warranties and some of the most competitive pricing you'll find on customized flash drives anywhere.

Even though flash memory prices have come down dramatically over the past few years, customized drives made from sustainable materials like wood, bamboo or recycled paper have been tough to find at competitive prices. As much as I want to see corporate America embrace eco-friendly swag, it's a tough sell if the prices on green items are significantly higher (especially in these days of tight marketing budgets).

Here's one of our new drives - the EcoPaper USB Drive, with an outer shell made from recycled paper in a 1GB size.  This simple & appealing design is clean, green and understated (which puts the spotlight on your brand, as it should be). These are available in memory capacities from 128mb - 8GB with 7-10 day turnaround time on custom orders.

Come on by Ecoswag.com and check out all of our new styles of eco-friendly promotional flash drives. We update pricing on our drives weekly & will be happy to custom-quote your USB drive projects.

Thanks for reading & keep coming back to find out what's new in the world of eco-friendly promotional swag!

USB Drives added to Ecoswag.com

Our team debated about whether to add USB Flash Drives to our product selection on Ecoswag.com for quite a while before we put them on the site today. Here's the thought process that led us to the decision to include them in our definition of "eco-friendly promotional products"...

WHAT MAKES A CUSTOM LOGO USB FLASH DRIVE ECO-FRIENDLY?
If you were expecting to see a bamboo-clad USB drive here as an example of "eco-friendly" we're sorry to disappoint you. Truth is, what makes a USB flash drive eco-friendly doesn't have much to do with the material on the outside. Whether the outside is wood, rubber, bamboo or metal, when it comes to USB drives it's what's INSIDE that really matters.

The bottom line: USB flash drives are eco-friendly because of what they replace - heavy, bulky reams of paper. Much like the popular metal water bottle, their eco-appeal is based on what they keep out of the waste stream, not the material from which they're made. If your company prints and transports heavy, paper-based information such as catalogs, training materials or handout materials to events, making the switch to small, light, reusable and easily updatable USB drives is an easy way to reduce your carbon footprint.

WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE DRIVES WE DID?
In terms of product selection, it would have been a no-brainer for us to simply put the most "eco-looking" USB flash drives on our site. After all, there are bamboo, wooden and even recycled metal USB drives available in the promotional products industry.

We're eco-minded, but we're also realists, and we know from experience that price and performance are the two most important factors to our clients who buy USB flash drives. Simply put, we could offer the most eco-friendly-looking drives OR we could offer the best drives we know of at the best price. We chose the latter.

The 3 drives on our site come from iClick, a Seattle-based, A-rated flash memory supplier to the promotional product industry. Their drives are made with Tier 1 memory and carry a LIFETIME guarantee. After recently hearing a horror story about a company that sourced a large quantity of cheap, logo printed drives online... then discovered they began smoking and actually catching on fire when people used them... we definitely want to stick with quality when it comes to USB drives on our site!

WHY ONLY THREE STYLES?
Simple. The 3 USB Flash Drive styles we added to our site are always in-stock, with 24 hour turnaround and a low minimum quantity of just 12 drives. Also, prices on these 3 drives change monthly (instead of weekly) so it's easier to keep our online prices current on these styles.

That being said, we do offer the entire iClick line of USB drives as well. If you see a drive on their site you're interested in we'll be happy to custom-quote them for you!