What Do All These Eco-friendly Terms Mean?
Consumers are a pretty powerful force. While marketing can influence a purchasing decision, manufacturers ultimately cater to their own product decisions based on consumer trends. Consumers historica…
Industry Trends
Estes Park and Quantity vs Quality
Estes Park is about an hour and a half into the mountains from Denver. It's a quaint little town with an elevation of 7,522 feet. It's nestled right between the Rocky Mountain National Park and the R…
The Fidget Phenomenon
Seasoned promotional products professionals will remember the fidget spinner craze of 2017: seemingly overnight, the world became obsessed with those little plastic spinners. Industry message boards …
SAGE Show 2021: The Recap
SAGE Show, SAGE's second annual online tradeshow and one of the industry's largest online events, wrapped up a few weeks ago. With over 2,500 attendees, more than 150 virtual booths, popular and exci…
The Most Popular Products in SAGE Total Access: August 2021
Masks are back! After a two-month hiatus, Masks are back in the top 10 searched product categories and take up 6 of the top 25 most viewed products. Nationally, coronavirus case numbers are the highe…
What Your Website Says About You
I collect meteorites. I can tell you where each of my meteorites was found, the composition, where they probably came from, and maybe how they formed in the solar system. There's something pretty coo…
Don’t Play Reindeer Games with Your Holiday Orders
It might sound crazy, but the fall/winter holiday season is right around the corner! Like a lot of people, I’m a bit of a last-minute holiday shopper. Last year, I was still shopping for gifts for…
Promotional Products & The Olympics
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics (goodness, that sounds weird to type) are fully underway! At the time of writing this, the United States has 73 medals - our athletes bringing home a total of 24 in gold, 28 i…
The Most Popular Products in SAGE Total Access: July 2021
Welcome back, our old and trusty friend, the lanyard. It is finally back in the top 10 after a 16-month hiatus. Source: Giphy Does this mean in-person events are back for good? With the surge o…
Port Delays and the Holidays
It’s been well over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. While things are slowly returning to normal, much like the flu pandemic of 1918, we’re going to be feeling the effects for a very lon…