As soon as you are done with the process of the selection of the vendor who will supply you the promotional products that you have selected as your tool for business promotion advertising you should ask the vendor for a sample. The sample being the prototype of the original product facilitates the process of your selection of the products.

More often than not the distributor will provide you with a small sample free of cost. However when the item is costlier they may charge you with the shipping costs and other related expenses. The small sample may be sufficient to decide your final orders and the item you are going to use as your promotional gifts.

It would be a prudent step to obtain a pre-production specimen of the promotional product before you start the actual production. Those who are new to the field of the promotional products will find this quite useful because it may not be nice to see your company logo drastically reduced in shape and size on tiny promotional products like the pen or key rings.

When the quantum of the order is small you can simply have a picture of the item through fax or email or you can also have a tiny sample that will suffice for the purpose of selection of the appropriate promotional items. Question of getting a larger item as sample will come up with the bigger order placements only.