Promotional Mouse Mats And You

Naturally your first going to want to come up with a budget for the project, as well as decide how many promotional mouse mats you will actually need. Of course there is no hard and fast rule for helping you determine your budget or ideal quantity to produce, so just go off of whatever information you have such as marketing budgets and whatever estimates you have for possible production numbers.

The next big decision regarding the production of your promotional mouse mats is deciding what materials to use in their production. The sky is the limit here, and nearly any material you can imagine can be used to construct a promotional mouse mat. In fact if you can think of a way to turn it into a promotional mouse mat it has probably already been turned into one by someone else. The flexibility here is fantastic when you want to choose material, because no matter what your design there is a material that will be appropriate. You must however choose between a trade-off of material and price though when designing your promotional mouse mat because not all materials are priced the same, in fact some are quite a bit higher priced than others.

Therefore if you want to create a large amount of promotional mouse mats to give away for free at an event you are going to want to choose a cheaper material, however if your promotional mouse mats are designed to be produced in a limited run and only given away for a special event or perhaps even a prize then you may wish to go with the more exotic material that is more expensive, but will leave a more lasting impression.

The cheapest possible material to make a promotional mouse mat out of is a somewhat rigid plastic material. This is a bottom of the barrel dirt cheap material that you can use to create promotional mouse mats at a very low cost. Of course because the material is so cheap your mouse mats will likewise looked cheap. No matter how great your promotional mouse mat design, or how high resolution your graphics are, if you use a cheap material for your promotional mouse mat the end result will look cheap.

Some high and alternatives for creating promotional mouse mats are glass and metal. Both of these are quite pricey though they do make very showy pieces. Unfortunately for many occasions glass and metal do not make ideal mouse mats, for instance traditional roller ball mice have difficulty is gripping onto the surface, and optical mice sometimes have problems tracking the surface. A good middle-of-the-road alternative for your promotional mouse mat is a neoprene rubber material. This is what many mouse mats are made out of, as such it will make a good choice for your promotional mouse mat.