Ahead of the November presidential election, Anheuser-Busch is reportedly sending over 8 million ounces of its sanitizer to polling locations across the U.S. That comes out to around 62,500 gallons. For perspective, if you put all that sanitizer into gallon jugs and placed them in a line, it’d stretch for almost five and a half miles…
Read MoreShirt 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 MoreWhat Comes Next for Promo? 4 Ways to Thrive in a Massively Disrupted Marketplace
The big question on everyone’s mind these days is: What comes next? What comes next for my business, the industry, the economy? Here’s the most honest answer you are going to get: No one knows. How can you maximize your chances of success when you have no idea what is coming next? Here are some thoughts on how each of us can thrive in a massively disrupted marketplace…
Read MoreHow One Promo Company Turned Massive PPE Sales Success Into a Creative Give-Back Effort
In the first half of 2020 alone, iPromo booked 1,000 percent more sales and shipped 800 percent more orders than it did in all of 2019. But after months of soaring PPE sales catapulted iPromo to these record numbers, discarded PPE was now littering the streets and piling up in waterways, raising alarm from a growing number of environmentalists. The company has a fun idea to help clean it up…
Read MorePGA Tour Event Sells Merchandise to Benefit COVID Relief
One of the big draws of a PGA Tour event is the merchandise tent. They don’t always have that allure and exclusivity of The Masters, but getting something like a shirt, hat or golf equipment is a fun way of saying “I was there,” especially if the Tour makes a stop nearby. Right now, golfers…
Read MoreWhite House Gift Shop Introduces ‘Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID’ Commemorative Coin
Following President Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis, subsequent hospital stay and reported release, the White House Gift Shop has added an item called “Historic Moments in History Coin” that commemorates “President Donald J. Trump [defeating] COVID with icons of his entire first term.” The first 1,500 people who buy the $100 coin will also receive a “Presidential Blue PPE mask”…
Read MoreVantage Apparel Launches Pop-Up Webstore Solution for the Holidays
Vantage Apparel, Avenel, N.J., has launched a new holiday pop-up webstore solution to distributors that guarantees apparel shipped and delivered before the holidays. Aptly named “the Candy Cane Store,” the e-commerce-enabled site can be live for up to three weeks, and features the top gift-giving apparel ideas for the holiday season. Distributors can purchase the…
Read MoreSuper-Size Your Business
I am sure you have seen plenty of McDonalds ads, right? But you probably didn’t learn anything new. Right? You already knew McDonalds sold hamburgers, fries, shakes and sodas. You have already tried many things on their menu. So, since you already know everything you need to know about McDonalds why do they advertise? The…
Read MoreDos Equis’ ‘Seis-Foot Cooler’ Returns as Part of Home Tailgating Kit
Remember that six-foot cooler that Dos Equis released so we could all still enjoy each others’ company at a backyard cookout but maintain social distancing? A lot of people might tell you that Labor Day is the end of cookout season, but Dos Equis is making an effort to “save our Saturdays” by re-releasing the Seis-foot cooler and introducing a few more fun products…
Read MoreDairy Queen and Hidden Valley Celebrate Partnership With Creative Promo Collection
To spread the word about the new addition of Hidden Valley Ranch to its chicken strips and salad options, Dairy Queen dropped a line of branded merchandise that includes a cornhole board, a 1,000-piece puzzle, a paint-by-numbers kit and a cross-stitch kit. While not billed as such, the collection is clearly designed with the stay-at-home crowd in mind…
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