Lanyards are mainly used for identification purposes at conference or trade shows, but there are heaps of other ways that they can be used and below I’ve listed a few. Don’t forget that if you get printed lanyards with your company logo, this will also enhance the effect and give you some free advertising along the way. Obviously with some of these uses you would need additional lanyard attachments to the standard ones, but the small extra cost can really be outweighed by the benefits of the free advertising you’ll get every time they use your lanyards.
1: Use them with retractable card holders at the end so they become part of a security card swipe system for entering your office
2: Add a mobile phone attachment to the end of the lanyards so they can use it for making calls
3: You can also use the mobile phone attachment to hook a USB stick at the end. Great if you need to move around the office to different computers, you can have all the important files handy in your USB stick hanging from your lanyard
4: Cool for conferences, some lanyards have a pouch sewn in that you can put a pen into. Perfect for those people that are always losing their pens, get one of these added to your lanyards and the problem is solved
As you can see, lanyards can be adapted for many uses, so don’t get stuck in traditional thinking. Next time you’re going to get some printed lanyards done for the office, maybe get a little creative on the attachment side and you’ve got a terrific product to help advertise yourselves
Always thought a great idea for a printed lanyard would be to have a wider material (30mm+ woven fabric) and produce a printed Lead for the dog owner or equestrian market. I’m sure there’s a market for them.
You’re right Nigel. basically dog leads are just a bigger form of printed lanyard
We use lanyards for all our students (Year 7-10) with the detachable phone holder to attach their usb sticks to. We just make it part of the stationary requirement each year and they work really well.