Ideas, trends, and inspiration for branded merchandise and promotional products.
Two hundred people take something off the booth table and one of them is a real buyer. A mini digital camera keychain, at a twenty-five-piece minimum, is what you keep in the drawer underneath for that one.
Read more →A camp waterfront runs from half past nine until four, and sunscreen washes off in the first hour of it. A hooded UPF sun shirt covers the neck, the ears and the shoulders for the rest of the day.
Read more →A server's shirt gets inspected from three feet away by a few hundred people a night. That is a different apparel decision than a giveaway tee, and the cheap blank loses it in about six weeks.
Read more →A historical society running a full slate of America250 events all year doesn't want a different shirt for the spring parade, the summer tours, and the fall lecture series — one durable tee has to cover all of it.
Read more →A Sunday of back-to-back showings doesn't leave time to change or cool off between houses, so the shirt has to handle all four showings on its own.
Read more →A bottle a field rep hands off at stop nine has to look the same as it did at stop one, so the bag matters as much as what's inside it.
Read more →A cap in a brewery's merch case gets bought with someone's own money, not handed out free, so it has to look right before anyone picks it up.
Read more →A mowing crew doesn't get shade breaks the way an office job does, and the shirt they wear all day has to survive sweat, sun and the smell of both by the last stop.
Read more →The cart crew, the volunteer marshals and the pro shop counter all need a cap for the club, but they're not all outside the same number of hours.
Read more →New members don't all join on the same day, and a welcome bag that only works for one big January order doesn't hold up the rest of the year.
Read more →A charity or client golf tournament has at least three separate gift moments, not one, and a single tumbler can't cover all of them.
Read more →A crew working outside all day stops for water more often than the job actually needs. Match the bottle's size, and its material, to who's carrying it.
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