Awareness
May 23, 2022 at 3:37 pm
Ron Weaver is president and CEO of Apex Advertising, a full-service promotional products marketing agency with annual revenue of $24.6 million, offices in nine states and a team of 65. But on this day in mid-December, it was a trio of kindergarteners running the show. Not that Weaver minded ceding control...
May 9, 2022 at 9:27 am
Facilisgroup, St. Louis, banded together with Cap America, alphabroder and Next Level Apparel to raise over $30,000 for Ukraine. All funds raised go to World Central Kitchen, which works to feed Ukrainians in need, and the National Bank of Ukraine, which is organizing assistance for a variety of relief efforts for citizens...
April 12, 2022 at 9:02 am
Facilisgroup, Cap America, alphabroder and Next Level have banded together to help Ukraine through the sale of T-shirts and caps through this Thursday, April 14. The initiative for Ukraine began when Facilisgroup President Ashley McCune heard about the difficulties faced by one of her employees, who has family and friends near Kyiv...
March 30, 2022 at 9:45 am
PromoCares has launched a T-shirt fundraiser aimed at raising $50,000 for Ukrainian aid through Save the Children. Produced in partnership with several industry suppliers as part of PromoCares' #Ukraine4Good initiative, the limited-edition T-shirt is designed to "leverage the use of promotional products to create a ripple effect for good."...
September 8, 2021 at 9:21 am
"What's more punk than the public library?" That's the question supporters of the D.C. Public Library System's Mt. Pleasant branch printed on T-shirts earlier this year. They hoped to sell 50. A few months later, they've sold 7,000, raising over $100,000 for the library. Here's how...
March 23, 2020 at 12:41 pm
Suppliers and distributors able to continue operations are looking for ways to stay in contact with their partners and customers and do the best they can during this time. One of the ways were seeing everyone stay connected is through social media. Here's how a few suppliers are doing that, along with their advice for using social media during this time...
September 25, 2019 at 9:00 am
Ben Grossman of Grossman Marketing Group joined the show to talk about SwagCycle, a new sustainability program we're honestly pretty excited about. Ben told us how it went from idea to reality and gave us some real-life examples of big-name brands that have already participated. Plus, Sean and Brendan discuss a new merch-selling feature from Facebook and issue an important alien-related correction...
August 27, 2019 at 2:00 pm
We often hear that everything is bigger in Texas, and 13-year-old Jayson Kimberly is helping to prove that the sentiment applies to the knack for being selfless, too. Hoping to draw attention to the issue of animal welfare, the adolescent is donning promotional T-shirts for different animal shelters throughout the school year...
March 8, 2019 at 12:49 pm
Happy International Women's Day, everyone! To celebrate this special day, many brands are releasing International Women's Day merch that benefits a good cause, and we are fully on board. We've rounded up our 10 favorites that we're adding to our shopping wishlist ASAP. Now if a brand would just push out an International Women's Day…
November 30, 2018 at 12:12 pm
No matter the struggles of our beloved Philadelphia Flyers, the Promo Marketing crew will always melt over all things hockey. That compulsion combined with our enthusiasm for promotional products in an interesting way yesterday, as we learned that Oakland University, as what officials have dubbed a “last resort” against a possible active shooter situation, is…
