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We love working with our clients 1:1 to find the perfect products for their projects.  In our posts, you'll find lots of examples of previous projects, our favorite products, our process, and small business tips.  We look forward to working with you!

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Seasonal Swag: Leveraging Promotional Products for Year-Round Impact

November and December are by far the most popular months for gifting.  We are in the holiday spirit, and commercials are inescapable.  While gifting at the end of the year is wonderful, your gift may get lost in the holiday shuffle and not leave the impact that you intended.  So, instead of focusing all of […]

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Top Trends in Promotional Products for 2024: Making Your Brand Stand Out

Our team recently traveled to Las Vegas for a vast industry tradeshow to scout out the top trends in promotional products for 2024. We spent two days in education and two days walking a tradeshow floor.  My feet ache just thinking about it. There were more than 2,000 vendors and more than 250,000 products. We […]

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The Power of Tangible Branding: Elevating Your Image with Promotional Products

What do you envision when you think about powerful marketing that leaves a lasting imprint on your audience? Postcards quickly get tossed in the recycling bin.  Billboards are passed without a second thought.  Organic content can be lost in the crowded sea of social media platforms.  Digital ads are skipped, muted, or closed as quickly […]

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6 Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged and Inspired

6 Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged and Inspired

With almost limitless sunshine and activities, keeping employees engaged over the summer can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be.  In this article, we share 6 strategies for keeping employees engaged and inspired. The point of these strategies is to show your employees that you care.  You recognize the additional challenges that may come […]

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Reduce, Reuse, Promote: How to Shop for Eco-Friendly Promotional Products

Reduce, Reuse, Promote: How to Shop for Eco-Friendly Promotional Products

You know promotional products significantly impact your company’s marketing efforts. Still, you feel a little icky when you need to order hundreds or thousands of a product to give away an event.  You know the ROI will make it worth it, but you are concerned about your environmental impact. Does this sound familiar? Our environmental […]

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4 Reasons to use Gifting in your Client Retention Strategy

Client retention is critical to a healthy business, and an effective client retention strategy involves the right blend of activities based on your audience. This post covers four reasons to use gifting in your client retention strategy.  Keeping clients is much less expensive than chasing new ones, and the clients you keep are much more […]

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SEPTEMBER‘22 EDUCATION GIVEAWAY

THIS GIVEAWAY CLOSES ON 9/30/22! SIGN UP FOR OUR EMAIL LIST ON THE HOME PAGE TO MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT MISS THE UPDATES! It’s time! Time for our favorite giveaway! If you know should know one thing about us, you should know that we are so grateful to work with amazing schools all over […]

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North Carolina Pickle Festival

It’s baaaack!  The North Carolina Pickle Festival will be in person this year, and we couldn’t be more excited!! Co-chairs Julie Beck and Lynn Williams gave us all the details to share with you because we know this one is going to be a very big dill!   This marks the 36th year of the […]

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CCM Trademark

Show me the ®!

Does your business need a trademark? This post is so incredibly special for a couple of reasons. We get to announce that our name is now officially trademarked!!!  I’ve never been so excited to see the ® symbol in my life! Our brilliant trademark attorney, Paige Hulse, shares all of the legal details on trademarks. […]

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Announcing New Website

New Website!

We are so excited to announce our new website!  We love it not only because it’s gorgeous (you must check it out), but we know it will allow us to serve our clients and potential clients even better. For a little sneak peak, we’re highlighting a few of our favorite pages below! Products Page Our […]

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hey there, it's Caroline!

Categories

We love working with our clients 1:1 to find the perfect products for their projects.  In our posts, you'll find lots of examples of previous projects, our favorite products, our process, and small business tips.  We look forward to working with you!

Client Spotlight

Products

Process

Small Business

Project

Start A

Click here to contact us to get your project started!

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