Preston's Promotional Products, Ltd. began as businesses often do -- at a kitchen table, talking with some wonderful people in the Advertising Specialties field with whom I had been working in sales. Preston's is owned by Preston Becker. That's me, a Chicago boy restless to help you.

"How can you help me?" you ask. Well, by seriously providing the advertising value of unusual highly beneficial promotional products ---- products ranging from auto-sun-visor-note and pen-holders to wonderful wearables, to ultra-thin, flexible kitchen cutting boards for you, the business professional.

"Advertising, shmadvertising," you may say. But, the thing that makes the Preston's Promotional Products stand out among ad specialty distributors: I don't sit on Miami Beach watching the seagulls dive for fish. Planning time is taken to choose the "out-of-the-ordinary" things for you from the enormous quantity of promotional items available, so you can hopefully get the best color, design, imprint and overall resulting impact of items you both want and need. Sometimes, a sense of humor helps.

Anyone can slap an imprint on any old pen or shirt, or any new pen or shirt for that matter. The true object is to get you the most good-looking and eye-catching pen; shirt; briefcase; sports bag; "Maglight" flashlight; or item that nobody thought of until good research was done. Often it is the unusual, new item on the market, like the coffee percolator pen or the bulls-eye paperweight pen stand with matching rocket pen (see the website later). This doesn't necessarily mean the most expensive item either. The resulting benefit of all this for your business: that advertising value proven by increased sales, and people's just plain enjoyment of some pretty nifty stuff.