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Reduce stress and have fun, with this playful product. Pick Soothies, to calm those nerves and stressors in life. Soothies are textured strips designed for a quick, easy, and enjoyable sensory experience that can be placed anywhere. Scratch, rub, or pick at it to reduce feelings of uneasiness, stress, and restlessness. This satisfying and calming sensory experience is quiet, allowing users to manage stress without drawing attention. This type of product takes the power of touch by our industry to another level, by touching several senses at once! That's prime brand message real estate. Given our graphic design skillset, this is also a fun, playful way to insert your brand message. It's definitely a quirky enough to work option and as a bonus, USA Made! Comes in packs of 4. Explore options here.

Are you sure you want a plaque? I meant, it's recognition- but is it exciting? The surface can become colorful, but there are so many more ways to be creative with recognition pieces. Since it's National Creativity Month, let's explore a multi- process option in today's post. Creativity adds so much more to this story. A fire department wanted to honor members of their team. The award applies several processes, including a 3D rendering inside that captures the details of the uniform, boots and water from the hose- the fire, well that's a bonus to this story. Take a look at the steps in this process: Now you gotta admit, that's fire! Take a look below. There are 3D etched images inside of various shapes, full color added to the award, color fill etch added to the surface for even more dimension, encapsulated products to further tell the story and several of these twist. Motion, color, layers of dimension. Which is more exciting- these options or a plaque? Behind every reason to provide awards & recognition is the story. These creative awards tell the story behind the moment. Let's get creative for your brand story.

Sometimes there's no reason to over complicate your message by adding too many words! Imagine the attention you'll gather rolling through the airport or sitting at the gate waiting for your flight with a full color fabric wrap on your luggage. Highlight VIP's Advertise your new product or service Add unity to your team as you all gather from around the country to the national sales meeting Have fun! Regardless of your location- indoor or outdoor. Regardless of your reason- sponsorship, donor relations, expo sales development, security, festivals, tradeshows, pop up retail events, fundraising, special events, education or directional signs; we've got you covered! Ask us about USA MADE and Eco Constructed options Remember, we design in house, making your project planning simple. Visionary Assurance, United Purpose is our creativity at work for your brand.

We've got an innovative & creative solution for a wearable that needs a BRAND refresh! Instead of discarding your favorite jacket when your business, school or organization rebrands, simply refresh! Frequently during a rebrand a client will ask, "What can you offer me to cover over my current embroidery that looks sharp and is a durable solution?" We've got a solution to help you: Decorate Rebrand Repair Reuse Reduce Upcycle Today's post is definitely one of our quirky enough to work products. January is National Creativity Month, but that doesn't mean at Promotional Partners that we ever stop focusing on creative solutions. Nope- we're always on the hunt for innovative & creative products. Our new partner is another woman-owned partner that's committed to: Innovation - a way to share your passion with a material that offer alternative ways to brand. Self Expression - is your moment to tell your story and shape a powerful message Creativity - providing a durable, flexible product that's easily transformed into any color or shape. Offering creative individuals, brands, and non-profits a way to amplify their voice. Community - Ask about qualifying discounts for non-profit organizations using this product for education outreach, donor relations and events to advance your cause. Sustainability - environmental impact & awareness- made from recycled water bottles This totally customizable fabric is USA Made, quick turn, requires only 50 units, is water proof and sticks permanently to almost anything. Which means, you can decorate or repair. The material works on tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, gloves, hats, shoes, backpacks, jackets, screens, and even a ding repair for surf boards. Go ahead, make waves!

Have you heard? Uncle Sam turns 250 this year. Yep, America's celebrating 250 years! A celebration this large deserves year long promotion. Lucky for you, we've secured exclusive, licensed America 250 products that can have your logo added. Imagine the possibilities. From special events, to demonstrating your American Pride, to gifts for your key partners- we have options. Like what? A few of our favorites captured here: Explore more options: Food Gifts, promotional Items, wearables here Hand held flags Flag s for the house or your business Would you like your own signature line? We create your own curated collections, including graphic design and custom product development. Additionally, we have experience with store enthusiast programs, creating riveting narratives and celebrating benchmark moments .

Value, as an art element, renders a 3D or life-like quality to an object through the illusion of mass or volume. Value in business is associated with worth and benefit- we all want more volume! When your needs and our services overlap, that interaction adds value. As a company we offer goods & services, but our growth requires your partnership. As artists, creatives and industry professionals- we add value! Our design team is a tremendous resource of talent and creativity. Rather than working with one designer, you have three minds at work. Our diversity of thought, combined with our own skillsets creates a unique collection of ideas. We are creatives, but we're designing for your brand and your vision. Listening is an essential element. Through our questions and your answers, we're able to to extract your preferences. A couple of years ago, our college intern captured the behind the scenes work of Miranda and Isabel - exploring their love of graphic design and what keeps projects fresh. In this post , I shared how our role is a care taker for your branding. Over the years we've refreshed and designed numerous logos. We've designed tee shirts, coins, posters, tents, tradeshow booths, brochures and business cards. Some of our favorite collaborations required working within your brand guide to insert fun, heart and milestone moments into your brand story. The variety keeps each collaboration interesting. Here are a few projects, we designed, for Merck. The collaborations include a custom charity bike ride jersey, breast cancer walk tees for their team and special event celebrating 20 years since breaking ground at the Durham NC location in 2014. Each product also demonstrates our graphic design skillsets at work! Visit our design studio to work one-on-one with graphic design team. Compare fabrics, papers and products. Each product has a canvas. Explore your options with award-winning professionals that understand how color, font, and design matter when maximizing your message within a specific imprint area. As a partner, your design process includes a suite of services! We love adding more value to boost your brand. Value add is always part of the Partner Experience. Thank you for supporting us- your partnership of our woman-owned company is "our why."

We talk about moments in life that are fun or make us feel special. Gourmet food gifts aren’t just for the holidays—they’re a versatile, memorable way to make any event special. From employee appreciation drops and onboarding kits to conventions, trade shows, and birthday or anniversary gifts, a thoughtfully curated gourmet treat leaves a lasting impression that goes beyond the moment.  Food is universally appreciated as a morale boost in the day. An unexpected gift immediately turns into a smile, which makes a food program a thoughtful way to showcase your company culture. Behind the face of your logo, is your identity. Interesting packaging is social media worth sharing. Our graphic design team knows how to create compelling visuals. Besides, food gifts naturally spark conversation when shared in a group setting like a convention or conference. Food gifts are USA Made, low-cost high impact choice. Think about it- food is not a quirky marketing idea, we all consume food. No matter the occasion, gourmet food gifts have the power to bring people together, celebrate achievements, and leave a lasting impression. They’re not just treats—they’re experiences, connections, and memories that your recipients will associate with your brand. Create an experience, you'll become memorable. We're ready to assist! Discover the options here.

Who is Promotional Partners?   If you think we’re a company that just sells promotional products, you’re missing the true value behind our partnership.     Sure, we sell promotional products.   However, our partnership advantage lies in our commitment to invest in the story and identity of your brand.  The words visionary assurance and united purpose represent more than our tagline. Instead, these words define the essence of our relationship.   75% of our clients have been partners for over a decade, some for two.   Jetting towards two decades operating in a creative space, our core values of creativity, collaboration, certification and community continue to be the guiding principles and framework behind our brand.     Rooted in public education, and a mother of two, it’s natural for our founder, Olivia, to invest in developing others over self. Choosing to never monetize our marketing & creative talents was intentional; instead, we saturate our collaborations by sharing our treasures freely and liberally with our clients. Does offering two of our strongest assets at no charge diminish the value? It hardly strengthens our partnership.   Is every service we offer free? No, we are a business.   We offer and charge for our graphic design services. However, true to our core; we still offer some of our graphic design services for free. Which services? Become a partner, you’ll find out which ones!   Each time a client visits our showroom and design studio, it’s obvious our graphic designers possess specialized skill sets. Sure, there are fun tools like Canva and even AI for generating graphics, but true designers communicate emotions, stories and target your message to your intended audience through their craft.     When a comedian riffs off a moment then makes you roll with laughter or artist crafts a visual that makes you pause to reflect, or a musical performance draws a tear, you’ve experienced a master at work. Genuine creativity is not contrived and can’t be harnessed; it’s intrinsic and it should be shared unselfishly.   There’s a reason our testimonials , case studies on our website and in the blog , along with our reviews consistently include the word creativity.   When the canvas is blank and the shape has not been formed, our creativity shines.   By remaining immersed in our industry, acquiring more skillsets, meeting routinely with key industry partners and maintaining our certifications our team is sharp and relevant. As idea engineers we transform innovative ideas into custom crafted solutions and assure our original products are compliant and safe. Well-crafted campaigns require meaningful product selection. For a product to become the vessel that narrates your story, requires a partner knows how to nurture your brand. As a branding agency, we'd been part of numerous stories. Sometimes we're the expert voice for creating a custom product. Sometimes we're the expert that knows which product is best suited to your capturing your vision and message. Often we are the graphic designer, but when we're the partner printing your graphic designs our expertise ensures your graphics are spectacular. It never grows old seeing our partnerships play out in social media, experiencing the promotion during an events or even as we travel around the triangle and state watching a recipient enjoy using their promotional product. Partnership is about lending our talents, experience and skillsets to your expert team.   Partners support each other, they listen, communicate and are equally invested.   By intent our website is not an e-commerce platform for loading products and checking out; that’s transactional. The benefit of our suite of services is a distinct advantage to each partner, regardless of their size. As holistic marketing professionals we continue to share our award-winning assets, spanning an array of value-added services which include social media savvy, marketing strategy, creating experience-based events, logistical planning, and graphic design.   What’s the secret behind our brand?   The wealth behind our brand manifests in our partners’ inability to discern the moment another value will unexpectedly be woven into our collaboration; that seamless magic is The Partner Experience. We aim to make an impression that lingers. We invite you to discover the story behind our brand. Through each of our Partner Advantage stories we’ll reveal The Partner Experience. Spoiler alert, we also might make you laugh. Our work is serious, but professionalism doesn’t negate fun; we’re authentically ourselves.

Tees are more than your grandpa's underwear. More than underwear? Yep. That statement was part of a 2021 post listing all the many reasons our partners ask us to design tee shirts. Tee shirts are a walking billboard, telling a story visually through the graphic design. Tees can also share a deeper story, like sustainability and become a canvas for good. Explore these earlier posts. 9 Considerations when selecting tees & creating designs include: If you want to add an additional marketing element, as us about tap technology tees . Tie dye remains popular, especially for school spirit sales. What's trending for fabric, fit and color? Muted tones & tropical colors are popular, take a look in this catalog. Right now the thicker the shirt, the more on trend, plus those boxy styles for fit. Explore more in this post . Sublimation processes, like on the crossroads jersey below, allow us to create a totally custom, full color option for your team. That means sports or even inter office fun. Cloud Dancer is the color of the year. A white surface is the perfect canvas. Repetitive patterns have visual power, creating rhythm and reinforcing messages. Font selection is a huge impact on your visual message. Because your brains process images 60,000 times faster than text, it's important that tee designs convey the intended message and well, make you look! Since 90% of the information that gets transmitted to the brain is visual, we prioritize first impressions. Marketing & advertising your brand is a strategy. We don't just design tees, we create graphics that make our partners stand out in the crowd. Here's a gallery of some of our favorite designs. Delegate those tasks to our talented team of designers for fresh approach! Capturing & holding attention is essential, we have nineteen years of experience.

Besides our community investments, creativity and certifications, we are deliberately collaborative. Our talented team is ready for any challenge. Isabel , Miranda and me sit down one on one with clients to collaborate. That's three creative minds at work! Over eighteen years we’ve designed logos and created brand guides that introduce a brand to their ideal consumer. Our story telling & marketing savvy adds to the face of your brand, expands the reach of your message.   The face of your business starts with a well-crafted logo. A logo is the face of the business, the first impression. Duplin County Libraries , is more than just books. Their brand refresh required encompassing the many resources they offer to the community they serve. Pine Springs Academy appreciated a partner who was able to cohesively connect the existing branding from the lower schools, when creating a create a new logo for the high school. The Town of Apex trusted our team to collaborate and design these logos for the trademark Peak of Good Living   merchandise, which resulted in a PPAI Silver Pyramid Award. Puppy Autowash  - partnered with us to create their logo before launching a business in Apex. More design projects for local companies and organizations, including   Little Bean , who asked us to refresh their logo. Take a look at few more logo designs from over the years. We also create a logo for a specific event or milestone celebration. Merck trusted our design team to create a 20 year ground breaking logo for their milestone celebration. GoPrime sought our design expertise to highlight 20 years in business! Even parades! We’re a “one stop” partner with a team of creative minds. Once we've created your logo, will keep using our creativity to grow brand identity. It's kinda of our thing! Creativity is part of The Partner Experience . The secret behind our brand is also The Partner Experience. Contact us to learn more about our graphic design services and pricing.

Today's post is about ingenuity, which is creativity at work. Creativity comes in many forms. Bringing original, innovative thinking to challenges in the workplace is another way to celebrate National Creativity Month. March 7th is Employee Appreciation Day. Are you ready? Now, is the perfect time to plan a program for: Performance Leadership Milestones Achievements Service Anniversaries Demonstrating Core Values Sales Goals Customer Service Innovation at work Organizations with a culture of recognition have employees who are 7 times more likely to stay with the company and 11 times more likely to feel completely committed to their jobs. Recognition is a driver of employee engagement, and reflects your corporate culture. Perpetual awards showcase and recognize individuals each week, month or year making a difference. However, all those plaques and free standing awards require wall & counter space. Here's an innovative approach. Simply insert printed paper into this acrylic award, creating a simple, budget friendly approach to your recognition efforts. If you prefer a desk or counter style- no problem. Maybe you have a break room or waiting area? Share your core values with a fun game of tic tac toe! Aligning your values and goals simply requires some creative thinking. We're ready to play. Put our visionary assurance, united purpose to work creating for your brand.

January 29th is National Puzzle Day and January is National Creativity Month. When you're solving a puzzle, the right fit- just clicks together. For some, finding creativity comes easier than it does to others. What's the secret? Play! Consider this- e veryday our team corners your market, connecting the right pieces that click with recipients.  Our creative ideas develop by exploring possibilities. You've heard the saying, a ll work and no play makes Jane and John - boring! Creative solutions occur when you allow your mind to wander. Take a break to play. Interactive products reset your mind, which is a growing trend. As a bonus, the rested mind adds a burst of joy to your day. Puzzled about product selection that connects message to recipient?  We've got some options, including products that are quirky enough to work, USA Made and provide our graphic design team to play with the surface. Stylus fidget pens , twist & solve puzzles and a double axis spinner Perhaps your services reduce stress by handling a task for your ideal consumer Maybe your hands on approach is appreciated by your consumer relationships Maybe your ideas are out of this world- something we know a thing or two about Perhaps you solve challenges- another way we love to apply our creative powers Doodling notebooks ! Many individuals like to doodle during meetings. Research supports doodling actually helps retain information! A window pad notebook is creative. The window can cut to any shape and convey a sneak peek of what imagery & message awaits when you simply turn the page. Besides, this partner is super creative, and homegrown. Not only as USA Made product partner, but a North Carolina partnership. Check out the image with removeable puzzle pieces! We have numerous journal case studies from the past nineteen years! Remember, the inside page can be a map, agenda or a call to action. Explore our collection of 2026 emerging trends here.