I define wealthy as making a minimum of $500,000 per year. This is a very achievable goal because: Businesses in North America spend over $300 billion on all the products we sell (printing, promotional products, incentives and awards, custom packaging, and more). These businesses keep running out of these items and need to reorder more.…
Read MoreThe quest to see what a beer can can’t do has now yielded the first “Cantenna,” which Miller Lite says is “the only reception device on the market that is great tasting and serves up football straight to fans’ living rooms.”
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There’s a longstanding debate over which fast food french fries are the best. But there’s one thing we think everyone can agree on, and that’s that the Travis Scott x McDonald’s merchandise collab is one of the best—and most interesting ones—we’ve seen. It’s also taken over the internet…
Read MoreOne of our favorite things about awards shows like the Emmys is finding out what all the stars and award winners left the event with in their gift bags. This year is a little different in a lot of ways. For one thing, it’s going to be all remote. Also, the gift bag is what the organizers are calling a “gift bag with a purpose”…
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A Fully Promoted franchise owner has found a clever way to not only enforce safe practices at in-person events, but do it in a way that doesn’t inconvenience attendees. Using color-coded bracelets, Fully Promoted of St. Charles gave people at the St. Charles, Illinois, Chamber of Commerce a way to nonverbally communicate their level of…
Read MoreA Utah-based distributor is accused of presenting himself as a 3M representative and claiming to have millions of N95 masks for sale. John Anthony Taylor, owner of Positive Marketing LLC and Wasatch Promotional Products in Park City, reportedly claimed to have access to one billion 3M N95 masks, which raised eyebrows…
Read MoreA promo distributor was the victim of a scammer who ordered hundreds of T-shirts totaling more than $3,000, only to issue and receive a chargeback once the T-shirts were in their possession. In an email to Promo Marketing, Theda Furlonge, owner of TAF Promotions in Colorado Springs, described the scam…
Read MoreThe Trump Administration officially announced action against Chinese imports of certain apparel, technology and hair products, citing human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. As we reported previously when this was speculation, the measure will allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to detain and “partially destroy” products produced by flagged companies. The announcement differs slightly…
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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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Fall means chili weather. And boy does chili rule. We could spend a few thousand words debating the merits of different chili recipes and ingredients, but this isn’t a food magazine. We’re still devoted to all things promotional products, so it’s our sworn duty to bring you good promos. Here are five that stood out to us this week…
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