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Back to School With USB Flash Drives

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Millions of students across the UK will today be starting school for the first time, returning to school to start a new school year or starting “big” school as they move up to secondary school, college or university.

For most of the students the day will be greeted with a blend of excitement, nervousness and relief as the long summer holiday finally comes to a close and the school gates open for the start of a new academic year.

For many of the parents of these students the days leading up to the start of the new school year will have “challenging” for a number of reasons. Waving your child goodbye as they start their first day at school has got to be one of the most heart-wrenching moments for any parent – pride, coupled with anxiety and a sense of relief that they are “finally” starting school are the typical emotions but the lead up to the actual start day can be just as stressful as they try to get their children equipped and organised for the start of school.

School USB Flash Drives

School USB Flash Drives

Many parents will be familiar with the usual “end of holiday” pinch point when unfinished homework collides with the realisation that they still have uniforms and equipment to buy. So, as well as coaxing their children to knuckle down to do the homework they’ve been putting off all summer they have to enter the fray and wrestle with other parents at the shops for the last of the trousers, shirts, sports kit, shoes and stationery – no wonder parents are left exhausted, stressed, emotionally strained and significantly poorer at the end of it all.

At many schools and colleges one of the newer additions to the traditional equipment list that parents will have to provide their children with is a USB flash drive. Today more and more schoolwork is done on PC’s and laptops and as a result many schools are advocating that pupils use USB flash drives to save their work onto to and to carry their work between school and home.

Fortunately USB flash drives have fallen in price over the last few years so a 1GB or 2GB flash drive can now be picked up online or in the high street for under a fiver!

School Flash Drive

School Flash Drive

Such is the demand for USB flash drives that some schools and colleges are buying them in bulk and with the school logo or crest printed on and making them available via the school shop. For some fortunate parents and students the schools will supply the flash drives free of charge!

Today there are lots of different models and styles of USB Flash drive available so even the most discerning of student should find something they like. When schools buy them they tend to buy the more popular versions like the Twister flash drive because it has no cap to lose!

In the context of all of the other pressures that starting or returning to school can throw up getting a USB flash drive sorted may seem pretty low down on the list but they are just as vital tools today as slide rules and calculators were 20 – 30 years ago.

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Personalised USB Sticks Make Great School Leaving Gifts

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Whether you’re leaving primary school to join the “big” school or leaving secondary school to start life at university it’s going to be emotional particularly if you’re leaving behind friends you’ve formed a strong bond with over the years you’ve been together.

It’s often just as tough on the teachers, particularly in smaller schools where they may have taught the same class of children for several years. The last day will often end in tears for the teachers as they dismiss their class for the last time and inevitably it will be a rollercoaster of emotional highs and lows for the students as the reality of the “last day” sinks in. No matter how hard nosed you are or how much you convince yourself it doesn’t matter the last day at school will put you through the emotional mixer.

School USB Flash Drives

School USB Flash Drives

With the rise of social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter it’s now much easier than it was to keep in touch with your school friends as you move on to a new school or to start a new life outside of school but, it’s also nice to be able to celebrate your time at the school with some form of tangible gift.

Some schools and classes have latched onto the idea of personalised USB flash drives as the perfect leaving or

School USB wristbands

School USB wristbands

graduation gift. The flash drives can be printed or engraved with the school crest or name and details of the “Class of 2011” or anything that is appropriate. They can even be individually engraved with each student’s name!

The really clever bit (but it needs someone to organise it) is to gather lots of photographs and video clips (school trips, school plays, concerts etc.) of the class together with the class register, sports achievements, school awards etc. and get all of this pre-loaded onto the USB flash drives before they are given out.

As pretty much everyone has a PC these days, personalised USB flash drives crammed full with “memories” of the good times at school are a great idea. They’re not that expensive either and the lead-time to get them produced is only around 7-10 days (but allow a little more time if you want a name engraved or printed on each one).

So, if you are looking for a leaving gift with a difference then you might want to think about personalised USB flash drives.

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USB Flash Drives For Schools – Instant Credit and Discounted Prices

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

If you’re looking for a supplier of USB flash drives for your school and you’re not already buying them from USB2U then a detention or 100 lines of “I must buy my USB flash drives from USB2U” might be in order!

At USB2U we’ve been supplying printed and fully customised USB flash drives to schools and universities since 2002

School USB Flash Drives

School USB Flash Drives

and whilst no one likes a “show-off” we are delighted to have been chosen as the supplier of choice to so many of the UK’s leading education establishments.

We believe the reason we’re chosen is because of our commitment to providing a product and service that exceeds expectations at a price that our competitors simply cannot match. We do this without any compromise on the quality of the USB flash drives or the quality of the design and print. We only use brand new Grade A memory chips and we have rigorous quality checks in place throughout the manufacturing process and a final QA check before the flash drives leave our warehouse.

The bottom line is we want you to be happy with the USB flash drives we supply because we’d like you to come back and buy them from us year after year – we go the extra mile to make sure we not only give you the best possible terms but you also get the best product we can supply.

Our standard offer to schools and universities includes:

FREE Credit Terms – no checks, no forms, no fuss, we offer 30 day terms to all schools including Young Enterprise Groups within schools.

FREE Delivery – if you’re on the UK mainland we will ship out your order of USB flash drives at no extra cost – we use UPS overnight service to give your peace of mind.

School USB Memory Sticks

School USB Memory Sticks

FREE Data Loading – if you want to pre-load the USB flash drives with say a copy of the school prospectus, application forms, OFSTED reports or anything else we’ll happily do this (max free load is 100MB)

FREE Lanyards or Keyrings – order over 100 pieces and we’ll throw in a plain lanyard or a keyring attachment for every flash drive.

FREE Design Support – our in-house designers works with our school and university clients to prepare mock-ups, re-draw artwork, set up the supplied artwork and assist in whatever way they can to ensure the flash drives create a real “wow” when they arrive.

FREE Samples – we supply sample Flash Drives (dummy samples) so that you can check the build quality and dimensions etc. before you order.

Best Prices for USB Flash Drives – we offer significantly discounted terms to all schools and universities irrespective of the quantity ordered.

Convinced? We hope so. If you’d like a quote then just call us on our Freefone number (0800 008 7079) or fill in the quote request form on our web site and one of our team will get back to you in a flash!

USB Flash Drives for Schools

USB Flash Drives for Schools

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Young Enterprise Ideas – How About Branded USB Memory Sticks

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

If you’re one of the expected 250,000 students this year that are participating in the Young Enterprise programmes and you’re scratching your head trying to come up with that “killer” idea then you might want to consider selling USB memory sticks that are branded (printed or customised) in some way.

Branded USB memory sticks are incredibly popular at the moment because they’re so easy to use, they’re small and portable and they come in a great range of styles and colours. At school or university they are an absolute necessity but today loads of people use them at home and at work to store and carry around their own personal files.

School USB Flash Drives

School USB Flash Drives

Businesses are also using them by the bucket load to give-away to their customers or to hand out to prospective customers at shows, exhibitions and events. Typically businesses will pre-load the USB sticks with sales brochures, presentation files or media files before they are handed out – this way they can offset the cost the USB sticks by saving they make by not printing their sales collateral.

University Flash Drives

University Flash Drives

Because of their popularity there are lots of opportunities to sell USB memory sticks printed with a brand or logo including selling them to your fellow students in your school shop. Your other sales targets include teachers, lecturers, parents and friends. If your school holds sports days, award ceremonies, stages plays or has musical performances then you could record these and load the video footage and/or photographs onto the USB sticks and sell them to pupils and parents.

Of course there is nothing stopping you selling the idea of branded USB sticks to local businesses and really going for it and taking on the current suppliers. Realistically though it makes sense to go one step at a time and target one opportunity and the most popular option so far has been to get USB sticks produced with the school logo or crest on and sell them through the school shop.

The first step is to find a supplier and ideally a sympathetic one that will offer you payment terms on your order meaning you won’t have to pay upfront for them. This way you’ve got around a month to sell some before you have to pay for them and you won’t have to deal with one of the big headaches of starting a business and that’s cash flow!

USB2U have been supplying branded (and unbranded) USB memory sticks to Young Enterprises participants for a number of years on the following terms:

  • Free design support using their team of in-house designers. So, if you’ve got an idea but need someone to bring it to life then just chat through your requirement and their designers will weave their magic on their Apple Macs
  • Free Print Set-Up and Origination. When you order printed USB memory sticks it’s typical to get charged for the artwork to be “set-up” before the sticks are printed but for Enterprise Groups these fees are waived.
  • Free Lanyards (neck straps) – these come in a variety of different colours and are available with every order.
  • Discounted packaging and gift box options
  • 30-Day trade terms on all orders. You won’t have to pay for your branded USB memory sticks until 30 days after delivery! (to qualify the order needs to sent to your school or university)
  • Wide choice of styles and memory sizes and you can select different colours and sizes in a single order.

If you think branded USB memory sticks might be suitable for your Enterprise project then get in touch with USB2U – you can email, pick up the phone (it’s a Freephone number so you won’t have to pay for the call), fill in the on-line quote form or “chat” to the team in real time using their web based chat system!

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Build Your Own USB Flash Drive – A Great School Project

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Ever thought of designing and building your own customised USB flash drive? Well it’s easier than you think but great fun all the same and it makes for a great project for students.

Rather than just buying standard factory designed USB flash drives and printing your school crest or logo one why not engage the students and get them to design something unique to the school or better still unique to them. Anything is possible and some great results can be achieved relatively easily because if you can get your hands on the core components its really just an assembly job.

The two core components of any USB flash drive are the controller chip and the flash memory module. These are then assembled on a PCB and connected to a USB interface. This single (assembled) PCB can then be embedded into any outer casing to create a unique USB flash drive. Just like any commercially available (and assembled) USB flash drive you can buy the PCB’s in a range of memory capacities starting at 128MB all the way up to 16GB albeit 1GB and 2GB tend to be the most popular.

USB PCB

USB PCB

If you do want to build your own USB flash drives then USB2U can supply you with all the components you need including any accessories your might want for your finished product including key ring attachments, lanyards and gift-boxes. So if you feel your creative juices rising and fancy building your own unique USB memory sticks or setting a challenge for your students then give us a call and we’ll talk you through the options.

Who knows if you can use your imagination to tap into something big and create some demand for your design it’s always possible to move production from your back bedroom or classroom to the factory.

We do have a minimum order of 50 pieces for the PCB USB’s so if you did want to get a project off the ground and you’re not a school or company then get your entrepreneurial hat on and start raising the capital you need. Next step -  Dragons Den and a grilling from the likes of Peter and Theo!

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