It’s the spookiest time of year, but you know what isn’t scary? Promotional products. We can’t think of a single nightmare we’ve had about them. If you’re a distributor, you’ve probably had a few involving missed shipments or something like that. Or maybe you’ve even had a dream about a bobblehead that came to life. Actually, that’s not a bad movie idea. Anyway, here’s the Fave 5…
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Shirt Lab Forge Registration Opens
Shirt Lab founders Tom Rauen and Marshall Atkinson have put together another top-level virtual decorated apparel education event, this time focusing on the intricacies of e-commerce platforms. You can preview an online event guide here. “One of the biggest problems many small businesses and shops in this industry currently face is the ongoing challenge of…
Read MoreSpecial K Is Helping You Remember What Day It Is With Branded Socks
Kellogg’s is making sure that you keep those feet fresh every day of the week with a special line of branded socks that corresponds with Special K flavors and a weekly planner. All of these items come in the “Blursday Go-Away Kit,” which “aims to help people avoid the feeling that each day is blurring into the next as they spend more time at home during the pandemic.”…
Read MoreProud Boys Denied Access to Favored Polo Shirt, But Presidential Debate Leads to New Designs
Members of the Proud Boys, the far-right organization, are known for wearing black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirts typically seen at rallies or protests. In response, Fred Perry said it will stop selling the shirts in North America. It may not matter, as Tuesday night’s presidential debate led to new opportunities for the Proud Boys to design shirts of their own…
Read MoreOur 5 Favorite Promotional Products of the Week: ‘South Park’ Cutouts, Tie Dye Tees and More
All our Philly teams are bad, so let’s just say we’ve been avoiding all of our usual sports beats on social media. That’s given us some extra time and incentive to hunt for fun promotional products across the web and in real life. This week’s haul is a good one, if we may say so ourselves. (We do say so. It’s our magazine.) Check ’em out!…
Read MoreDecoration Diaries: How a Promo Distributor Turned a T-shirt Order Into Much More (and Gained New Customers)
When a parent organization at a Philadelphia charter school approached Damien Smith with a chance to provide students with T-shirts and various school supplies for an event, it gave Smith an opportunity to upsell with more promo items that fit into the school’s water park field trip and become the go-to distributor for a community…
Read MoreLeBron James Introduces ‘More Than a Vote’ Branded Apparel Line to Benefit Social Activism Group
LeBron James is encouraging people to vote in this year’s election as part of his “More Than a Vote” organization. He’s introduced a full line of merchandise, too, which directly benefits a social activism organization dating back to the 1960s.
Read MoreOur 5 Favorite Promotional Products of the Week: Beer Can Glasses, ‘Die Hard’ Kazoos and More
It’s officially fall, which means Halloween decorations, pumpkin-spice everything and, of course, promos. This week, our five favorite promotional products include brewery glasses shaped like beer cans, “LOST” coffee mugs and a “Die Hard” kazoo for some reason…
Read MoreDecoration Diaries: How A&P Master Images Used Halftone Screen Printing to Land a Repeat Customer
A&P Master Images pitched the idea to use a trendy screen print technique to bring a customer’s hand sketch to life. The product was such a hit it evolved into an online company store for fulfillment and future business with the client on other projects…
Read MorePatagonia Hid a Secret, R-Rated Message On Some of Its Clothing Tags
If you happened to have purchased Patagonia’s Road to Regenerative Stand Up Shorts, you might have noticed a tiny little message on a tag. Or, maybe you didn’t notice it. To tie in with the shorts’ purpose of rehabilitating farmland through a partnership with organic farmers, Patagonia slipped a little message in on the tag…
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