Silicone Bangle Keyholders

A silicone bangle, 8.6 cm across, with a metal keyring on it — you wear your keys on your wrist. It exists for the moment when both hands are full and the keys are somewhere at the bottom of a bag: the changing room, a site visit, a viewing, a shift where the same key is used twenty times an hour. As a giveaway it works for the same reason: it is used daily, so the branding is seen daily.

Who actually uses it

Gyms and pools, where there is nowhere to put a key and silicone does not mind getting wet. Housekeeping and front-of-house staff carrying access fobs through a building. Estate agents running viewings with a different key at every address. Event and production crew with a van key they cannot afford to lose in a field. Those are the buyers who reorder, and it is worth aiming the design at them rather than at a general audience — a bangle chosen for a specific job gets kept.

What to check before you commit

• Diameter. 8.6 cm is sized for a wrist, not a finger. Over a uniform sleeve it sits snug; on a bare wrist it will push up the forearm, which is what you want for hands-free use. If it is for staff in jackets, try one on the actual sleeve before ordering the run.
• The metal ring. It carries several keys and access cards, and it is the part that carries the weight — the ring and its join to the band, rather than the silicone itself, is what determines whether the product survives a year in a pocket.
• Colour. Available in a wide selection. In an organisation this is the genuinely useful specification: one colour per department, per building or per vehicle turns a keyholder into a key-control system for no extra cost.

Two ways to buy it

As promotion, order it in your brand colour, hand it out where people already carry keys they care about, and accept that its value is the wrist it sits on rather than the print area, which is modest. As equipment, order several colours and treat it as consumable: cheap to replace, obvious when it has been left on a desk, and durable enough that it will not need replacing often. Most buyers who start with the first case end up reordering for the second.

Other keychains

Other keyrings and tags: Custom Silicone Print Nylon Keychains, Custom Faux Leather Keychains with 3D Domed Logo, Custom RPET Sublimation YoYo Keyring and Felt Keychains with Logo. The whole category: Keychains.