Swimming through the sea of suave business representatives and tucked behind elaborate display booths at trade shows world-wide, are a variety of promotional giveaways. Depending on the industry driven event, different promotional products will be explored. For years, many have settled on popular trade show giveaways like bags and pens to influence potential clients. While traditional swag items are guaranteed to garner exposure, I dare businesses to think outside of the box. The following five products have been chosen as the most unique and effective items from a selection of over 30,000. With an imprinted logo on one of these trade show giveaways, clients will flourish and the success of your business will soar.

Plantable Ornaments
Awesome eco-friendly trade show giveaways have swiftly entered into every convention center as of late. Among the most sustainable and inventive items are plantable ornaments. These handmade paper shapes are crafted out of recycled materials and mixed with seeds. Trade show attendees will feel refreshed by these green giveaways because they are all natural and inspire a curiosity for the outdoors.

The plantable ornaments come along with an instructions card where the actual imprint is placed, making it easy to use and filling these with exposure opportunities. Recipients can hang the plantable ornaments throughout the home and office to keep spirits high all year long. The best part is that after used decoratively, these plantable ornaments will be soaked in water and begin to bloom. That means that even years after these are given out, your business will be remembered. Not to mention, the variety of shapes ranging from dollar signs to music notes allows these to work for any industry.

Custom Cookie Cutters
These cool custom cookie cutters are also members of the eco-friendly trade show category and are made from biodegradable plastic. With shapes including hearts, houses and ribbons, any industry can use these to get business cooking. For a very low price, these custom cookie cutters produce massive exposure. With every batch of cookies, your logo will bake up new customers.

When you show up to an event with these custom cookie cutters, everyone will want one and male or female, everyone will appreciate the wonderful sentiment in these. By giving a special trade show giveaway, your business will be remembered as more then just a logo. There will be a friendly face behind the logo that will make people want to do business with you for years to come.

Business Card Case With Mints
The most recognizable means of marketing is the classic business card. This palm-of-your-hand sized piece of paper holds all of the information needed for contacting you and always includes the imprint of your business's logo. At trade shows, business cards are flying everywhere. By supplying passersby with handy business card cases, you'll be making their event experiences of the future more enjoyable.

Equally as troubling as unsorted business cards is bad breath. While most will attend a trade show with their best pair of shoes, many may forget the importance of a first impression. By giving out this business card case with mints, you'll be improving the hygiene and personability of everyone. Recipients will be grateful and your logo will be cherished years after the tasty mints are gone as the case is reused for other purposes.

Narrowing down thousands of giveaways to the top three unique and effective items has been done for the betterment of trade shows all over. When these atypical giveaways are used, your logo gains branding power. It's also always important to think of your target audience and the location of your event to ensure that your representatives, your display and your giveaways are picture perfect for every event.