There are many reasons to order holiday gifts NOW! Stock is good No lines at carrier's store More tariffs have not been applied Today's post is all about the ease of ordering now! USA MADE products Fresh to order Send directly to everyone on your list! Skipping the line! What's our secret? Tasty food gifts! If you follow our socials or blog, you've noticed several posts this month around food gifts. In our recent zest appeal post, we featured snacks and cookie treats. In our unwrapping smiles saves lives we featured snackable desk drops! The beauty of food gifts? Pleasing a crowd, shareable fun, and affordable. However, our favorite secret tip- order now, send us your list and " forget about it !" The order is secure, made fresh, packed fresh to order- and shipped out at your ideal date. Food gifts are perfect for year-round programs, such as welcoming a new employee to the team, acknowledging a birthday or new edition to the family or just to make someone smile. Our partners don't solicit your list or even keep it! Peace of mind, ease of distribution. Shop now- ship later! Do you follow our socials? Anything for the 'gram right? Check out a sneak peek of Olivia having fun with the ease of gifting. Besides, ordering early earns you discounts!!! The earlier you order, the better the discount.

Pop open something fresh & exciting the next time you have a message to convey- releasing your zest- appeal! Watch for inspiration! Key lime flavors add some unexpected zing & zest to baked goods. Capturing attention using a promotional item is successful the more senses you reach. Sight Smell Taste Touch Sound Why utilize this type of product & packaging? Re-image your message, as well as when & how it's inserted into the conversation. Pop open something fresh & different to increase the reach of your message. High impact graphics greet your recipient! Pop open freshness with foil lined containers & 100% satisfaction guarantee. Who can resist the smell of fresh baked cookies or roasted snacks? Quirky enough to work! American Made Treats! All-natural and made fresh. Wholesome ingredients, no preservatives or artificial flavors 30 years of experience! 5 cookie options- Chocolate Chip, Key Lime Pie, Vanilla Pecan, Mint Chip, Cinnamon Snap and Sugar. 4 snack options- Spicy Guac Mix, Energy Fruit and Nut Mix, Butter Toffee Peanuts, Savory Wasabi Mix and Cherry Chocolate Mix (seasonal). Multiple confections- Triple Treat Popcorn, Salted Caramel Popcorn, Kettle Popcorn, Yogurt Covered Pretzels (seasonal), and Mint Puffs. Unlimited ways to be creative! Be Remarkable! Gratitude, your mission statement, an event invitation... anything at all that you wish to communicate.  Not only that, but it's no charge - that's right, each canister can be customized for no additional cost. Let's create something unique with the packaging! It's more than dough: Our partner donates quarterly to One Tree Planted to offset our carbon footprint. One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. As an environmental charity, they are on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees! Additionally donating over two tons of food annually to Feeding America , helping support their efforts working to end hunger. Holiday kits add an extra layer of goodness! Matching sock programs benefiting homeless shelters & disaster relief. Add journals that invest in education by building schools in Mali, Guatemala, Laos, Ghana, Nicaragua, and the United States. We've first featured this partnership in 2021. We love adding value to your brand. Here's one of our own case studies! Ask about samples & virtual images to help you visualize a tasty promotion!

Together we do more! Companies, like yours, show your heart everyday in the community, sponsoring local organizations, schools, youth programs and sports. Clients, like you, are focused on solving challenges such as: environment & climate health, food insecurity, veteran health & wellness, youth leadership & career development, women's empowerment, DEI initiatives, and promoting skilled trade education to name a few. Elevate your voice through product selection. Our industry adds value, offering products that include ties to our heart; giving back to local, national and global non-profits. The enormity in size of our partners creates a HUGE impact. When our partners commit to giving 1% of profits annually to a specific charity, that adds up to millions of dollars! Our blog is full of stories about brands that matter. Follow ways to align your brand through our cause marketing category section of the blog and search by specific key words. A snapshot of some of the programs and organizations the products we sell help includes: #Youthempowerment #education Building playgrounds with Kaboom Mountain biking with Protect Our Winters Boys & Girls Clubs of America Local & national scholarship programs Advocating for skilled trades Building schools Providing matching donations for school supplies Tee shirt rebate programs Black Outside YouthBuild Skills USA Little Bella's   # Veterans #veteransupport Wounded Warrior Veteran Housing #Humanneeds Food insecurity FEED Feed America Habitat for Humanity at local levels Matching sock donation programs to homeless shelters  #HealthandWellness American Heart Association St Jude's Shriner's Hospitals Cookies for Cancer #Environment #sustainability Outdoor climate advocacy, 1% for the planet Safe drinking water Well Aware  One Tree Planted Evertreen The Giving Grove Tentree  4ocean Oceanworks The Ocean Cleanup PATH National Parks Foundation The Conservation Alliance Our partners don't stop with giving to organizations. Most of our partners are committed to offering products that are made from recycled materials, changing their production practices, making green changes and changing their packaging. Even carriers for distribution challenges are working to address our carbon footprint. Recycled material with water bottles divert millions of water bottles. Recycle cotton is repurposed into new products. Additionally partners earn & maintain certification s to back up their commitment to sustainability. Together, by balancing profits with purpose, we're creating a meaningful impact and a more responsible future. If you'd like to know more about the efforts of our partners around social responsibility, fair labor, sustainable practices & certifications or "their heart" - ask; we have many ways to be purposeful & intentional with your product choices. We love telling your story, your way.

The impact & influence of music on our lives is more than one hit at the top of a billboard chart. Songs transport us to moments in time, a concert, an album purchase, a poster in our room, twisting & shouting to a song with friends and even a first kiss! There is power in music, the message & beat compels us to move or perhaps take action. Today's focus is action off stage, that's also topping charts. 2 million is an impressive number that represents the impact of dollars invested into advancing the value of skilled trades. Did you know 34.7 million Americans are part of a skilled trade industry? July 7th is National Rock & Roll Day. We love stories about brands that are making a difference, offering more value and using their voice for good. Wolverine is part of our ProudPath collection of brands, which are brands that give back. Through the brand’s Project Bootstrap initiative, Wolverine has donated over $2 million. Motivated to break down common misconceptions around the skilled trades industry, to support & inspire future generations of skilled trades workers this brand is responding with more than just a durable product. Wolverine, is a USA MADE brand- with a rock in roll twist! This previous blog post captures the durability, and shares how Metallica is helping with their All Within My Hands Foundation. What are some of the product options? Click here and visit our showroom. Locally- the are programs to consider such as Wake Tech  skilled trades certification programs & degrees and NC TAP  apprenticeship program includes partners in the skilled trade industry! Can't get enough of our impactful, purpose driven partnerships? Follow this topic link. Looking for more USA MADE partners, follow this link. These types of topics help shape the story behind our commitment to offering our partners visionary assurance, united purpose.

What is the world am I trying to say? Have cocktails your way! July 10th is National Pina Colada Day. Cheers to adding more fun to your promotions. Summer is the perfect time to layer in team building events or local mixers outside the office. Invite key attendees with a dimensional balm or jelly belly mailer , then send attendees away with a signature glass to remember the event. Consider making these events annual, offering a set to collect. Utilize our talented, and award-winning graphics expertise to design the packaging & a fun seasonal logo using your company branding. While these pints not for pina coladas, the case study demonstrates the appeal of collectable drink ware and the appeal of creating fun signature events. Each fall we design a new pint for this partner's annual Oktoberfest event! We all know the barware & blenders are the right tools for making Pina Coladas! However, we've always got a few quirky enough to work ways to connect "the dots". Our originality goes hand in hand, just like a promotional product with our creativity. Besides, each of these 5 product ideas are also USA MADE! A cocktail jelly belly box Box set of flavors Pina Colada lip balm Hurricane Glasses Stir up some fun Shake up your branding by blending in some unexpected fun this summer! We can even add tap technology to our plastic line of mood changing hurricane glasses , for special promotions & events to add quick engagement tool with recipients. Slide the deck to see how to use the tags or stickers for promotions, events and company stores! How's that strategy for getting social?

This brand has taken recycling to a new level, by re-imaging single use paper bags. Saturday July 12th is National Paper Bag Day. The supernatural line of paper bags are a quirky idea that works! Watch this quick video , to learn more about Out of the Woods, a purposeful brand partner that's innovative. Out of the Woods® specializes in reusable bags and insulated coolers that are made from Washable Paper which is FSC®-certified (FSC® C153080) made of tree cellulose, a renewable resource, from responsibly managed forests. These products are washable, durable, and sustainable – designed to reduce the negative impact on the environment by developing lasting products made of better materials. Out of the Woods® proudly donates 1% of revenue to organizations that support the planet. These styles are perfect for a trip to the market, the beach, a hike or just for running errands around town. Out of the Woods is another one of our brands that matter, providing you visionary assurance & united purpose towards your sustainability goals. Sustainable. Durable. Washable. Stylish. Impactful- giving back to 1% For The Planet. Stop by our showroom to feel the difference for yourself!

Check our socials today! You'll find me cheering for red, white & blue and American Made products!! What can be American Made? ALOT! Our website only features a few of our partners, yet we have 25,312 products on the site made right here in the USA! There are also 6 key benefits to USA Made products, read more here. Popular choices include products in this image: Magnets Stickers Hand Fans Lip Balm Bags Spirit items like poms, stadium cushions, foam fingers Playing cards Floor mats When you want to consider American, no tariffs, check out our blog for ideas we have pages of posts, awards, journals, drinkware and much more!

But do come back.... Summer is all about getting out into the great outdoors. June is Great Outdoors Month. While that "focus" is ending, adventures till await. In our blog, we have ninety-four posts with the key word OUTDOOR, to inspire ways to align your brand message with outdoor enthusiasts. If you're planning a retreat, a seminar, a conference or on-boarding employees for the "adventures" that await them in their career we have solutions. We design the box, the surface of the products content, like we did with this water bottle , plus kit and ship it all around the country. Watch as I share a kit with you. When you're ready to discuss shipping programs for gifting, incentives or rewards, we've got options and several different programs. A visit to our showroom & design studio is a simple way to compare the choices and start the process, or set up a virtual meeting. We're flexible collaborators!

Support. Strength. Awareness. 3 key reasons October will be filled with runs, walks and pink ribbons. We've exploring new products & decoration methods to insure your brand stands out from the crowd. For many of our partners, your annual efforts start with us creating a new design for local events designed to supporting our friends & family through the process, fundraising for research & promoting the value of regular screenings. These tees we designed for our friends at Merck provided employees a way to connect & share experiences. We've already started planning for this year's event. Have you started planning? A few resources to plan ahead: This flip catalog  has new ideas for ways to unite your goals. Including give-away items a local events or as part of your business marketing. If supporting research to cure cancer is personal for you, perhaps after the struggle or loss of a loved one offering pink promotions during October is one way to connect others to your efforts. Fundraising is another reason to promote pink. Plan ahead for the best stock and time to fully develop your campaign. Explore more ideas in this flipbook. Slide to see how a full color surface offers more brand real estate for your message. Ask our talented & award-winning design team to create something special for you!

June spotlights a month long focus on Pride Month, however diversity, equity and inclusion goals require a year-round effort to create change. When did Pride month begin? Take a look at the roots in this previous blog post. Pride month is associated with vibrant colors, but most DEI initiatives & councils weave in colors that represent the culture or heritage of the group. Visual stories capture attention. Color is a powerful tool. We love using our graphic knowledge & certified knowledge to create new ways to express your message. There is no one strategy that works, however here are some of our favorites: Low cost items that are easy wearables year round include these products . Similarly stickers and temporary tattoos are simple to place in numerous high profile locations to drive attention to your message or unite! Utilizing flags as a way to demonstrate your message through both symbols and colors. Incorporating products that reflect the values you wish to convey is like an adding an exclamation point into your promotional campaign. Take a look at these stat's: Businesses continue to align their core values with inclusion, making sure voices are heard, seen and recognized, as well as included at the table. If all the seats at the table are filled by individuals with only one mindset, age or gender the perspective never changes. Robust discussions include perspectives not previously considered and advance a change in mindset, leading to more inclusive spaces. There are so many products that create a blank canvas for adding colorful graphics! Our showroom is the ideal location to explore all of the choices & learn how our expertise with marketing & graphic design will help you gain momentum for what you'd like to say! Including your business, non-profit and elected officials at local events, provides a way for the public to learn more about how you are part of DEI initiatives. Look for ways to engage in your community. Promoting the ways your business is incorporating diverse voices can be as simple as highlighting products or services you offer in your business at local events, like our friends at Alleyway Bookstore, who was at Saturday's Juneteenth Festival highlighting some of their authors. When you're ready to craft a DEI campaign that reflects your company's values- let's collaborate.

It all starts with planning. Planning ahead allows us time to collaborate & explore your options. Sure, budget is always looming in the background, but innovation happens when you consider possibility. Clients that wait till the last minute to order find that stock is not around or there's no time for custom work. Behind the scenes, there's a flurry of activity around each collaboration. We are providing marketing strategy, graphic design, product knowledge, and an understanding of how your brand fits in the canvas of the community. Besides a well crafted plan connects our tools, insights, talent & knowledge for effective & impactful brand stories. Like the gears that move mechanical parts, keeping your brand running smoothly is our team's talent. What dates should plan for now? It's not impossible for July 4th promotion since we offer Partners Express options; however, it's never to late to focus on USA MADE options. We have an entire section of the blog dedicated to USA MADE, plus take a look at some new products here. Patriotic themes work throughout the year, get ahead of Veteran's Day, with these ideas. National Parks Month is around the corner, explore some options here. College students are busy with their summer internships now, but when they go back to school, it's the perfect time to remind them you care. Will they be graduating soon, needing a place to live, shop or bank? Check out some ideas they can use with each transitional move here. By the way, don't forget those December grad's - perhaps their graduation date was extended by earn dual degrees or study aboard. Looking for some ideas? Wellness is a year-round goal- demonstrate care with these types of products. National Truck Drivers Week - is a day to acknowledge those road warriors that keep our shelves full and our economy pumping with their behind the scenes work. Let them know you appreciate their efforts with these ideas. Part of our smooth gear planning is providing our current clients ideas in our monthly brand tips newsletter. It's a partner benefit!

Never underestimate the value in a good list. The satisfaction of crossing off the completed tasks produces a sense of satisfaction. We procrastinate when we are not interested in a project, then we justify our procrastination! At work the "to do list" is lengthy. A planner can help you keep on task. Typically your choices for planners are pre-dated by year & month- forcing you to not fully utilize the journal for your purposes. What if you inspired your team to innovate & create by giving them a journal that provides the flexibility to draft plans & lists- their way? A Wellable™ Plan Well Undated Planner Journal is designed for flexibility! Take notes and stay on track. Utilize the undated calendar sheets, task lists, tracker pages to design your goals. Use the sticker flag page to help you highlight & prioritize important tasks and goals. Customize your schedule Stay focused and organized every day. Feel good about this choice, the recycled cover is part of our ProudPath collection of products. Watch more about this collection here . We also provide value through refillable journals ! Provide your team one durable, stylish and high end cover, pair it with a higher end pen , then create a call to action to WRITE YOUR OWN STORY! When you're ready to distribute, a sk us how we can design, kit and fulfill your next employee campaign. A place to collect your thoughts is perfect for keeping your mind fresh, which contributes to a well -mindset.