Showing Most Recent Articles by Natasha Lavender:
How Stress Balls Are Made
We call them stress balls, but in fact, we make them in a genuinely impressive number of shapes. We’ve got buffalos, brains, houses, horses, peppers, peaches, and penguins. Suffice it…
The 411 on Pantone
The color Pantone 411 C is a dark grey with a muddy brown undertone. That’s right, colors can have numbers – at least they can in the world of Pantone,…
The Stress Ball Squishiness Experiment
Buying stress balls online is hard. We should know, we sell around 3-4 million a year. It’s easy for people who have a specific shape in mind, and we do…
What Makes Embroidery Pucker and How to Prevent It
Depending on how you spend your free time, you could have encountered embroidery on anything from branded polo shirts to fancy tapestries hanging in museums. Probably none of those had…
Your Handy Guide to Tote Bag Materials and What All Those Terms Mean
A little known fact about tote bags is that they multiply when left in dark spaces. This is why you have so many in your house, and car, and at…
How to Make an Emulsion Stencil for Screen Printing
Screen printing involves pushing ink through a stencil made of mesh coated with emulsion. Maybe that’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about emulsion’s role in screen printing, in which…
We Tested How Much Weight Our Tote Bags Can Carry
Tote bags really only have one job: hold stuff while you carry it. And look good while doing it. If they can’t do that without breaking, they’re not much use.…
How to Figure Out T-Shirt Sizes Without Losing Your Mind
Let’s say that your company’s pickleball team, The Big Dills, is preparing to defend their championship title, and you’ve volunteered to order the team shirts. It seemed relatively straightforward –…
Heat + Pressure + Time: How Heat Transfer Printing Works
Heat transfer printing uses high temperatures to print designs on promotional products made of fabric, like apparel, camping chairs, and bags. If you’ve ever been a Girl Scout and/or a…
What Employees Really Think About Holiday Gifts (And How Much They Want You to Spend)
Unless you want four, kind-of-intense ghosts to show up on Christmas Eve on a mission to correct your miserly ways, now’s a good time to give your employees some extra…
Tumblers on Trial: We Tested Our Water Bottles and Tumblers for Toughness and Leaks
Hydration is having what fashion people call un moment, which makes water bottles today’s must-have accessories. And unlike $1,000 platform Crocs and jeans that are more rip than denim, this…
Welcome to Quality Logo Products: Kelsey Busche
We’re happy to welcome “Harry Potter” fan and self-proclaimed book nerd Kelsey Busche to the QLP team! Kelsey is Sales Assistant to Sales Executive Stacy Gruca. She previously spent 10…
Welcome to Quality Logo Products: Stefano Andrianopoulos
We’re excited to welcome Stefano Andrianopoulos to QLP, especially since we can’t compete in cool points with what else he’s been up to. Sales assistant Stefano previously worked at State…
The Quick and Clean Guide to How Imprints Work on Your Promotional Items
“Imprint” is the name for the mark that’s added to your product. Examples include “CORNHOLE CHAMPION ‘03” on your favorite mug, “PRINCESS SNUFFLE BUTT” engraved in your dog’s collar tag,…
No Logo, No Problem: Easy Tips for Creating a Custom Design
You don’t need to already have a logo to order a customized product from us. Yes, we’re excited too! Maybe you’re ordering products to celebrate a wedding, family reunion, or…
What Are Promotional Products? We’re So Glad You Asked
Your home is already full of promotional products – you just don’t think about them like that. That pen you took from the bank? Promotional pen. That medal from that…
Can Portable Chairs Really Hold 300lb? We Put Them to the Test
One thing you have to give us humans credit for is taking things that we like and making them portable. For example: music, the internet, clocks, hot drinks, cold drinks,…
Welcome to Quality Logo Products: Erica Liedberg
The newest addition to the QLP team is Erica Liedberg, a Halloween-loving horror fan with the coolest secret talent we’ve encountered. Erica’s previous jobs include serving with the Air Force,…
It’s All Greek to Me: How Does Licensing Work for Sororities and Fraternities?
Don’t let the movies fool you: There’s a lot more to being in a fraternity or sorority than massive parties and secret handshakes. For example, organizing massive parties and making…
These Are the Promotional Products People Keep for the Longest Time–and the Ones They Dump the Quickest
Sometimes we wonder about where our products end up. We send them to our charming and delightful customers, and you give them away–and then what? Which ones become permanent fixtures…
We wanted to break stuff so we did a mug drop-test. It didn’t go as planned.
You realize your mistake three seconds too late. Trying to avoid making multiple trips from one room to another, you’ve picked up way more than you can carry. Your favorite…
Welcome to the Quality Logo Products Team: Natasha Lavender
Get to know Natasha Lavender, the newest member of our team! As you’re aware, interviews traditionally involve at least two people. However, since I am the new Senior Copywriter at…
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