Have you heard of Influenster? It’s an invite-only review site, sort of, where people who are active and influential in social media can receive and evaluate products. and they are now promoting ink pens.
(Pando Daily explains the Influenster concept in more detail.)
What caught our attention about the site is that Pentel and Pilot seem to be among the early pen companies using it to promote their products.
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I’m not a pen collector. Not in the way that some of you are collectors. I don’t have dozens and dozens of pens filling drawers and pen cups and plastic bins all around me. Just a few select favorites that get me jazzed when I use them.
Pens come in all the time, but they rarely stay. I try them out and, use them for a few days or weeks, then toss them in a box until I can pass them on to other people. My friends are used to seeing me coming around with fistfuls of pens to hand out, whether they want them or not.
But.
There are those pens I wish to acquire and keep, maybe to use, or maybe just to stare at Gollum-like while I mutter about how beautiful they are to me. These are the pens I wish for, maybe lust after a little, but haven’t yet convinced myself to buy.
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