Trade show swag usually includes a few pads of Post-Its, maybe a coffee mug and a hundred pens. When you choose novelty plastic pens for your promotions, you can stand out in the sea of pens and pencils. If you choose properly, the trade show attendees will be using your pen long after they've culled the plain stick pens and used up the computer-shaped sticky notes.

Carabiner Pens

Moms and involved dads will tell you that looking for a pen to write down directions or phone numbers on the road or at the park can be a hassle - because finding a pen in the diaper bag or picnic sack can be next to impossible. Carabiner plastic pens offer a fat writing stick at one end and a convenient carabiner clip at the other. Clip it on the strap of a bag or purse. Clipped to a key ring it's easy to find on the road or commuter train.

Carabiner plastic pens take just two weeks to produce after the artwork is approved. Don't expect to use these carabiner plastic pens as the rock climbing safety devices they were originally created for, at least not for ?0.33 each, but they'll ink a few thousand miles of letters and numbers.

Message Pens

Any promotional pens can be used to project a message to your prospective clients or customers. There are some extra special ways to get your message across, though. Consider unique message plastic pens, manufactured by Styb. These are high quality pens with a full 360 degree printable area. While most of the barrel is silver in color, you choose the accent color at both the clip and the writing end.

The barrel of these printed message pens allows you to say nearly anything you want ? you'll have the full circumference and a few inches in length to get your message across. Starting at ?0.47 a piece, you can choose from six barrel accent colors (clear, blue, red, purple, green or orange) and the ink color (blue or black.)

Looking for another kind of novelty plastic pen with unique message delivery? Consider the Vision Message plastic pen by Styb. You choose the four messages that will be printed on the barrel. A clear outer barrel can be rotated by the user to view all four messages.

Bottle Opener Pens

Multifunctional pens are always appreciated and few are used more than the bottle opener novelty pen. Users can crack open a bottle of lager or root beer while calling your business to request service. As newcomers to the novelty pen industry, you can be one of the first to give these out. Blue, red, green and orange are the color choices and all come with a matching lanyard.

Novelty Pens with Customized Clips

You may think that novelty plastic pens with customized, shaped clips are out of your price range but that isn't necessarily the case. Starting at just ?0.38 each, you can design a colored clip in almost any shape you like. Ballpoint ink choices are black or blue ink and all tooling for a single shape are included in the price.