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5 Tips to Successfully Knit Text on a Custom Sock
Whether you’re wanting your logo to be the main focus or your company’s slogan, our expert designers use their knowledge of knitting practices to best display the text and our top notch knitting machines execute it. Here are five tips for knitting text into a custom sock.
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How to Plan a Successful Fundraising Event | A Guide for Nonprofits
In this comprehensive guide, we will take you through the essential steps to plan and execute a successful fundraising event that exceeds your goals and expectations.
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Volunteer Appreciation Gifts: The Ultimate Guide to Show Gratitude
From nonprofit merchandise to swag for nonprofits, we'll cover it all. By the end of this guide, you'll have a plethora of ideas for fundraising merchandise, board member appreciation gifts, thank you gifts for sponsors, and more.
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A Comprehensive Look At Alumni Giving Statistics And Membership
Alumni giving plays a vital role in higher education institutions, as it not only supports their financial needs but also fosters a strong connection between alumni and their alma mater. It is essential to comprehend alumni giving statistics and implement effective strategies to optimize programs and achieve better outcomes.
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Volunteer Appreciation Gifts: Show Your Gratitude and Support
In this article, we'll explore a variety of gift ideas that will not only show your thanks but also foster a sense of belonging and inspire continued engagement.
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Should I Create a Merchandise Shop for My NonProfit Organization?
Are you wondering if your nonprofit could gain from having a swag store? If so, you've come to the right place! This article will explain the advantages that a swag store can offer your nonprofit.
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How to Generate and Nurture Leads through Corporate Gifting
Corporate gifting is an effective strategy for building relationships, expressing gratitude, and promoting brand awareness. By giving meaningful client gifts, businesses can connect with clients, employees, and stakeholders, which helps build loyalty and long-term partnerships.
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From Seed to Sock: Sock Club
We have grown from a team of 2 to a team of almost 40, and from making a few dozen pairs a month to making a few hundred thousand pairs per month. Join us as we unravel the yarn and explore the fascinating history of Sock Club – a journey of passion, creativity, and perseverance.
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Corporate Gifting, Event Gifting, and Conference Swag: How To Do It Right
In this blog post, we will talk about the differences between these practices, suggest the best types of corporate gifts for each occasion, and explain why they are important.
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Employee Spotlight: Michelle Twite
The design team scaled up rapidly once the sock business picked back up after the pandemic, and with that, we needed to scale up leadership. When Head of Design Layla Hubbard interviewed Michelle for the position of Design Manager, she knew it would be a great fit.
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What is corporate gifting, and why is it important?
In the realm of business, corporate gifting has emerged as a powerful tool for building relationships, fostering brand loyalty, and driving business growth.
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10 Steps to Planning a Company Holiday Party
In this guide, we'll show you how to plan the perfect company holiday party step by step. So, let's get started and create an unforgettable celebration for your team!
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4 Strategies of Corporate Gifting That Elevate Your Sales
To take advantage of the stagnant conference budget and create tangible connections that boost brand recognition, bring in new clients, and promote customer loyalty, here are four strategies and corporate gift ideas your team can implement.
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Employee Spotlight: David Harper
From keeping the team basically running on Celsius, to being the first person all new candidates get to know in the hiring process, David is an integral part of what makes Sock Club, Sock Club.
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7 Social Media Strategies for Promoting Your Custom Merch
Looking to promote your online merch store and connect with customers? By implementing these strategies, you can boost visibility, engagement, and conversions for your custom merch.
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Why Branded Merchandise is the Ultimate Marketing Tool
Branded merchandise acts as a business card, attracting potential customers and delivering your brand's message. With a great return on investment, even on a small budget, promotional products are an affordable way to achieve big marketing goals.
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Why High-Quality Custom Merch is Worth the Price
Learn why investing in premium materials and manufacturing methods can boost brand perception, customer loyalty, and sales. Find out how choosing the right materials and manufacturing techniques improves comfort, durability, and eco-friendliness.
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10 Creative Band Merch Ideas
Investing in high-quality, custom merchandise is essential for artists as it generates income, promotes their brand, and engages fans. By implementing effective merchandising strategies and offering diverse and unique fashion merchandise, artists can maximize sales, strengthen their brand identity, and stand out in the industry.
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6 Tips for Increasing Custom Merch Sales At Events
Increase your event merchandise sales and improve event success by developing a strategic plan that involves knowing your audience, maintaining a consistent theme and design, utilizing digital marketing, ensuring a user-friendly online shopping experience, analyzing data, and actively engaging with customers for feedback.
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Sports Merch: Tips for Making Your Team Swag Look Professional
To make sports merchandise look professional, you need good materials, a recognizable look, careful planning, and always getting better. By doing these things and looking at what successful teams have done, your team can make its brand look better and earn more money from selling merch.
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Sustainable Merch Is Trending: Here’s What You Need To Know
Sustainable merchandise is important in today's retail and entertainment industry. By using eco-friendly materials, making products fairly, and producing them locally, businesses and artists can demonstrate their environmental concern and attract like-minded customers.
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10 Best Branded Merch Store Platforms for Creators
By using the right online merch store platform, you can create awesome products that your audience will love, and it will help people recognize your brand even more. Take a look at the platforms mentioned in this article and find the one that works best for you and your merchandise.
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The History of Festival Merchandise
The history of festival merchandise shows how music brings people together and lasts through time. As the industry changes, merch becomes more vital for artists to connect with fans and establish their brands. Festival merchandise started with basic band T-shirts and has grown into a huge industry worth billions of dollars.
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From Seed to Sock: How To Finish A Custom Sock
Have you ever wondered how high-quality branded socks make their way from custom sock manufacturers to your feet? In this blog, we'll delve into the intriguing process of washing, drying, and finishing bulk custom socks after they're made on the circular knitting machine.
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12 Surprising Branded Merchandise Statistics
Branded merchandise is a powerful tool that businesses and organizations use to connect with their audiences. This blog explores the world of branded merchandise and reveals some interesting facts about why brands, corporations, festivals, and bands are using it for marketing.
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How To Design Socks: Choosing The Best Yarn Colors For Your Design
Choosing the best yarn colors to make your custom logo socks pop can be a daunting task. Do I want to design custom socks with a monochromatic theme or complementary yarn colors? Or even go a little zany and choose a wide range of yarn colors for the custom socks I’m designing? The options are endless!
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Employee Spotlight: Rebecca Palomares
Rebecca joined the Sock Club Sales team in January of 2018. Rebecca famously sent the Sock Club team a box of Tiff’s Treats after her interview, and working with her has been every bit as enjoyable as a box of those cookies.
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From Seed To Sock: How Sock Knitting Machines Work
Have you ever wondered how custom branded socks are made? In this blog, we will be discussing sock knitting machines, and how a custom sock manufacturer like Sock Club uses them to create high quality custom socks.
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How To Design Socks: How To Put A Logo On Socks
Designing custom socks with logos requires a different type of artwork called bitmapped artwork. Bitmapping uses pixels, and one pixel equals one stitch of yarn, so designing in pixels limits a designer in ways that vector artwork doesn't.
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Employee Spotlight: Ryan Wood
Ryan Wood joined the Sock Club team in January 2023 as our Sales Operations Manager, helping to level up our sales business intelligence and software so that we can grow with our customers.
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How To Use Company Swag Stores To Power Your Sales Funnel
In this blog, we will guide you through the various stages of a sales funnel and suggest ways in which a company's store can enhance the sales team's performance by enabling them to execute more focused and scalable corporate swag campaigns. No crucial details will be left out in this walkthrough.
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Why is customization important in your company swag store?
By providing customized corporate swag to employees, companies can create a unique and personalized experience for their workforce, which can help build loyalty and a sense of ownership, and motivate employees.
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5 Benefits of Setting Up a Company Store for Your Business
It is possible to get the benefit of personalized promotional products while avoiding the typical problems that come with the process. This can be achieved by utilizing an online store specifically designed for your company's branded swag.
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Scaling Brand Management With Company Swag Stores
In this blog, we will explore how company swag stores can help Brand Managers utilize customized promotional items to build brand awareness, maximize impact, save time and money, and scale their campaigns.
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How To Access Tools in Your Sock Club User Account
Our user accounts offer various tools to help users access updated pricing, learn about products, and design socks creatively. We have centralized all these tools in the new Tools tab to make account navigation and tool finding easier for users. These tools can now be accessed with just a few clicks instead of phone calls or emails.
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How to Use Your Company Store for Employee Recognition and Retention
By streamlining the recognition process and providing employees with discounted access to branded merchandise, companies can strengthen their work culture, boost morale, and align employee efforts with organizational goals.
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The Future Of Company Stores: 7 Trends To Watch
Being ahead of the trends and innovations in marketing can also provide businesses with a competitive advantage. If you’re going to invest in a company swag store, it’s important to keep innovation in mind so that your store can outperform expectations and competitors.
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Employee Spotlight: Kristen Jimenez
Since Kristen started, she has been an integral part of the office management team, the trade show preparation team, and the Accounts Receivable team. Recently, she joined the Account Management team, where she puts her extensive knowledge of the business and dedication to customer service to work for our custom sock clients.
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From Seed to Sock: Yarn Dyeing and PMS Matching
Over the years, the Sock Club design team and I have worked together to identify and create the most beautiful, versatile, and popular yarn colors. We want to make sure that we have the best, truest colors to represent your brand accurately and make the most unique and eye-catching designs possible.
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9 Tips for Choosing the Best Company Store Swag
Company stores make a lot of campaigns a lot easier than traditional direct mail or bulk distribution campaigns, but there are a few things that are more important to consider when choosing customized promotional items to put in your swag store.
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10 Tips for Launching a Successful Company Store
Creating a successful company store requires careful planning and execution. By following these 10 tips, you can create a company store that is aligned with your business goals, resonates with your customers, and generates revenue.
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The Impact of Branded Merchandise on Customer Loyalty
Company merchandise such as t-shirts, custom socks, water bottles, magnets, and coffee mugs have been proven to increase brand impressions with data showing that 76.1% of consumers remember the brand of a company due to corporate swag they received in the past year.
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Bulk vs Pick and Pack Fulfillment: Which is best for your company swag store?
In this blog, we will go over Pick and Pack Fulfillment, Bulk Fulfillment, and Kitting. We will explain what each is, what its benefits and drawbacks are, and how Sock Club fits into each one.
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Employee Spotlight: Hunter Haug
Hunter Haug joined the Sock Club team in December 2022 as an Operations Coordinator, helping to create the systems that will enable us to maintain the quality of our custom socks at scale.
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Step Up Your Workout Game: Choosing the Right Socks for Your Fitness Routine
In this comparison between cushioned socks and thin socks, we'll take a look at the pros and cons of each and determine which is the better fit for your active lifestyle.
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What Fabrics Make the Best Sports Socks?
To uncover the science behind the perfect socks for sports, this article will explore the unique benefits of various materials used to make athletic socks and provide tips on how to choose the right pair for each activity. With the right knowledge and information, athletes can ensure they have the best possible gear for any sporting event.
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How To Expedite Your Designs In Your User Account
We created our user account system to speed up the ordering process for all of our users. With this new feature, we have made our already speedy design process even faster! When you request new sock designs through your user account, you can easily rush your designs.
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What are the different types of sports socks? The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Athletic Socks
Custom socks are a great way to express your individual style while also providing important protection and comfort while playing sports. In this guide, we’ll explore the benefits of wearing custom athletic socks, the different types, and how to choose the right pair for you.
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Employee Spotlight: Katreece Hattaway
Katreece Hattaway joined the Sock Club operations team in the summer of 2018. In her time at Sock Club, Katreece has grown from an Operations Coordinator to the Director of Operations at Sock Club, and is a member of our predominantly female leadership team.
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The Art of Sock Design: How To Knit A Gradient
More and more companies are using gradients in their branding, and we at Sock Club are getting more and more requests for knitting gradients into our sock designs. We put together this helpful guide to answer a few questions about knitting a gradient into socks with logos on them.
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Custom Dress Socks vs. Custom Sports Socks: What’s the Difference?
Whether you’re looking for a custom business socks for a trade show giveaway or creating custom athletic crew socks for a corporate wellness program, the right socks can make all the difference.
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From Seed to Sock: Manufacturing Quality Cotton Yarn in the US
From ginning to spinning, this guide will take you through the step-by-step process of high-quality cotton yarn production in the US. It will cover the important steps such as cleaning and carding, spinning, and plying and will provide insight into judging the quality of cotton yarn.
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Employee Spotlight: Tatiana Arnold
Tatiana Arnold joined the Sock Club team in November 2022 as our Email Marketing Manager, helping to strengthen and deepen the impact that our emails have on our clients.
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Company Culture Examples: 13 Companies Who Get It Right
We put together some examples of great company culture at companies that have proven themselves with employee retention. The hope is that by following these steps, your top talent will consider working for these companies as they look to replace retiring executives.
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Custom Socks: The Effective and Unique Way to Promote Your Brand and Inspire Your Team
In this ultimate guide to custom socks, we will explore the different types of custom socks, how to design and order them, as well as how to promote your brand and inspire your team.
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Employee Spotlight: Abby Gilligan
Our marketing team has evolved quite a bit over the years, and is scaling to focus more intently on the lead sources that have historically brought us business and are continuing to grow. Abby Gilligan joined the Sock Club team in November of 2022 as our first ever E-Commerce Manager.
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How To Use Sock Club's Online Custom Sock Designer
Use this new tool in combination with our custom sock design team, instead of our design team, as an additional design to your order - really however you want.
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Best Employee Appreciation Gifts of 2023
Employee Appreciation Day 2023 is March 3, 2023. This means it’s time to start thinking about employee appreciation gifts for your team. Employee appreciation gifts can lead to more productive, engaged, happy, and excited team members.
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From Seed to Sock: Sock Club's Cotton Grown in the United States
Our spinning mill was founded in 1967 and specializes in carded and combed cotton. We pride ourselves on quality and make a point to reduce waste whenever possible.
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Retain Top Talent: How Workplace Culture Affects Employee Retention
If you’re looking to retain top talent, you’ll likely want to make sure that the working culture you’re cultivating is one that embraces top-notch employee retention strategies. But how exactly do you go about doing that?
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Employee Spotlight: Molly Lawrence
Molly Lawrence joined the Sock Club design team in the spring of 2020. The company and the world experienced a lot of changes at that time, so Molly has truly seen it all when it comes to Sock Club.
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Conference Giveaways vs. Trade Show Booth Giveaways: What's the Difference?
Giveaways for trade shows and team conference giveaways are both event swag that is used to increase brand awareness and attract potential customers. However, there are some key differences between the two types of giveaways that can impact their effectiveness.
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The Importance of Employee Recognition: How to Make it Happen
If you have a large organization with different departments and staff, it can be difficult to determine which policies and programs work best. However, with the right workplace recognition program in place, you can support your company culture while meeting your financial goals.
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How To Create A Quote In Your Account
Getting the most up-to-date pricing in just a few clicks is a great benefit of our user account system. This eliminates the need to email one of our Account Managers each time you need a quote, and allows you to get that quote back in seconds. Our Account Managers are pretty quick responders, but nothing beats a calculator!
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Employee Spotlight: Kevin Barrett
Kevin Barrett joined the team in November of 2022 as our Development Manager, and brings a background of document imaging, project/process management, enterprise change management, and the better part of a decade in performance marketing (lead gen).
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Attending a Tradeshow? Here’s your tradeshow planning checklist (Google Sheets Download)
In this article, we’ll review the essential tradeshow planning timeline, best practices, and provide you with a free tradeshow planning template to help you plan your trade show. We’ll also provide tips and tricks for making your trade show a success.
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How does Chinese New Year affect shipping and the promotional products industry?
To better understand the effect of Chinese New Year on the manufacturing of promotional items, it is important to look at the various factors that come into play.
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Sock of the Week: An Origin Story
Since Sock of the Week has become such a cult classic activity at Sock Club, I wanted to share a little bit more about its history, why we do it, and how it could impact your team.
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How to Drive Traffic To Your Trade Show Booth: 10 Proven Strategies
The success of a trade show is largely contingent on the amount of qualified leads that visit your booth. Here is a list of trade show marketing ideas to increase the traffic of qualified leads to your booth during the show.
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Employee Spotlight: Mallory Haines
Mallory Haines joined the team as our Field Marketing Manager in May of 2022. Her background prior to Sock Club included “lots of events, event management, and sales” in several different industries, including the alcohol and energy drink category.
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How To Request Free Samples Through Your Account
A guide to keeping your sample supply fresh with only a few clicks. A lot of our clients use samples of our past work to judge the quality of the socks, see yarn colors in person, or test out different types of socks.
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Employee Spotlight: Jenna Orgeron
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about Jenna, and her transition from Sales at Paperclip Promotions to a Junior Account Manager with Sock Club!
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How To Reorder Past Custom Sock Orders In Just A Few Clicks
If you are an existing customer, then this video will help walk you through reordering a past design in just a few easy clicks. If you are a new client, we’re excited to work with you! This video will show you just how easy it is to get amazing custom socks at any time through your new account.
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Best Employee Christmas Gifts of 2022
The holidays are right around the corner! What are you going to get your employees for Christmas? Did you know that employee holiday gifts can help increase retention and productivity? In fact, according to a study by Snappy, 59% of employees are more likely to stay with their job if their employers gifted “meaningful” holiday gifts.
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New User Accounts: How To Request Free Sock Designs
Our new user accounts are finally here! These new user accounts will allow you to keep track of past and current projects, easily reorder, quickly start new projects, and much more! If you are an existing customer, then this video will help walk you through requesting free sock designs in your new user account.
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The Best Holiday Custom Sock Designs
We all know that the ugly Christmas sweater from last year’s company holiday party has been sitting in the back of your closet for the last year. A better holiday corporate gift is custom socks because they can be utilized year-round for both employees and clients.
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Holiday Sock Ideas for Company Gifts
The holidays are right around the corner! Have you thought about your employees' or clients' holiday gifts? Custom socks are the perfect solution for holiday gifts because they're one-size-fits-most, easy to ship, practical, and versatile. Here are our top 5 favorite ways we've seen custom socks used for holiday swag!
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How to Increase Employee Retention with Appreciation Gifts
For businesses to be successful, you need to hire and retain the right set of people for a long time. To retain them, you can send employees appreciation gifts showing how grateful you are for their efforts towards the organization.
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Employee Spotlight: Lizzie Stratton Design
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s incredible custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredibly talented designers, Lizzie Stratton!
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Why Custom Socks are Perfect Holiday Appreciation Gifts
One of the best holiday gifts for board members, gifts for executives, or employees gifts is custom logo socks. Branded socks are gender and size-inclusive and ship easily. Here's why they make great gifts for employees and clients!
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Taylor!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Taylor Pinkin, and her transition from working in product sourcing for a distributor to being a Junior Account Manager on Sock Club's Sales team.
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Holiday Sock Idea for Company Gifts
It’s that time of year again to start thinking about corporate gifts for your company. As an HR professional, you can benefit from getting employees company gifts during the holidays because it shows how much they are appreciated, increases employee engagement, and in the long term can help increase retention.
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Employee Spotlight: Drew Hund Development
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s best-selling custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredibly intelligent Developers, Drew Hund!
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Why Companies are Sourcing Swag from USA Sock Manufacturers
Businesses made and born in the USA have a story because they represent an American identity. In this article, we will discuss everything you need to know about swag and the reason why companies are sourcing swag from USA manufacturers.
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Promote Your Company Culture with Custom Socks
One of the best ways to promote your company culture is through company “swag” or gifts like branded socks. Strong company culture can help increase team member loyalty, retention, and productivity. Here’s how custom logo socks can help!
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The Evolution of Custom Sock Design
While Sock Club’s legacy began with its subscription service in 2012, we quickly found our footing in the promotional and custom product space in 2014.
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Design Your Own Custom Sports Socks with Sock Club
Custom sports socks are utilized visually unify your team, appear more professional, or even sell to fans. In this article, we walk you through the different kinds of custom team socks that Sock Club offers and how to design them.
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Why Choose Made in USA Custom Sock Manufacturers
When choosing custom-made socks manufacturers there are many benefits to choosing one that offers Made-in USA options. Sock Club custom logo socks are made in North Carolina which helps us create the highest quality custom socks with some of the fastest lead times in the industry, at just 5 days.
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Employee Spotlight: Nick Briscoe Sales
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s best selling custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredible Sales reps, Nick Briscoe!
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7 Unexpected Ways to Use Custom Wholesale Socks
A pair of custom branded socks can be one of the best things to give as a gift. Not only are these custom socks in bulk affordable, but they are also unique and can be used for any occasion.
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The Best Custom Branded Socks for Business
Businesses are choosing to use custom logo socks for several reasons. We’ll dive into why custom pairs of socks are a perfect item for businesses and can create a lasting effect on potential clients and customers, as well as the best custom socks.
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5 Tips for Hosting a High Converting Webinar (from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way!)
Unlock the secrets to hosting virtual webinars that convert with these firsthand insights. Explore 5 expert tips from a seasoned host for creating engaging and impactful online events that drive real results.
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Employee Spotlight: Alex Methvin Marketing
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s best-selling custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredible Marketing team members, Alex Methvin!
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How to Enhance Company Culture with Merchandise Branding
To maintain productivity and employee satisfaction, employers need to focus on employee appreciation and growing their company culture. There are several ways to enhance your company culture using merchandise branding, specifically using branded socks.
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How to Find the Best Custom Sock Manufacturer
Looking to get into the custom sock game? No matter what custom sock you’re looking for, it’s important to pick a sock manufacturer that is able to meet your needs. We’ll cover how to best pick a sock manufacturer that is right for you.
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Employee Spotlight: Blakeley Gaudina Sales
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s best-selling custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredible Sales reps, Blakeley Gaudina!
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How to Customize Football Socks for Your Team
It’s almost football season! This means it’s time to start ordering your team’s uniforms and even fan swag for your merch store. Curious about how to design your own football socks? Here are three different options that Sock Club offers for sock designs.
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ASI Chicago 2022: My First Time At A Trade Show
My name is Emma and I am a Marketing Coordinator here at Sock Club. I recently got back from my first trade show at ASI Chicago 2022. It feels so good to be back at in-person events! Sock Club is grateful to have attended ASI Chicago in previous years, but I wanted to give you the inside scoop from a first time attendee.
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Why Your Team Needs Custom Baseball Socks
Whether you are in a professional league or you are playing in a community match, baseball is fun at all levels and a cohesive team uniform can affect your team’s spirit, performance, and excitement. However, trying to find a team uniform that looks good on everyone and is the right size can be difficult. This is why you need a one-size-fits-most option that is designed to look good on everyone. This is where custom baseball socks come in.
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Why Custom Soccer Socks Are a Game-Changer for Your Team
Custom soccer socks can help build team spirit, ignite excitement, and increase team performance. The 3 things you should look out for when evaluating the perfect custom team sock include material, design, and turnaround times.
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Employee Spotlight: Sarah Schultz Operations
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s best-selling custom socks. We want you to meet one of our spectacular Operations team members, Sarah Schultz!
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Top 5 Reasons Sock Club Makes the Best Custom Dress Socks
Dress socks have been worn for centuries, used as a fashion accessory to complement a person's outfit. Now, you can have completely custom dress socks, utilized as a fun promotional product! Custom logo socks are taking over the world by storm, especially with the introduction of customized sock companies like Sock Club.
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Why Are Custom Socks are Trending Promotional Products?
Choosing the right promotional products or promotion gifts for your large business or start-up is essential to help reach and make a lasting impact on your target audience, that's why so many people turn to Sock Club custom logo socks!
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How to Make Your Trade Show Booth a Success: Event Giveaways, Booth Design, and More
Discover expert strategies for a standout trade show booth! Learn about captivating booth design, interactive content, and effective event giveaways to ensure your trade show success. Explore our guide now!
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Employee Spotlight: Lee Van Pelt Operations
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredible Operations team members, Lee Van Pelt!
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How We've Created A Successful Event Marketing Strategy: Sock Club's Guide to Trade Show Success
Unveil the winning event marketing strategy that propelled Sock Club to trade show success. Explore trade show giveaways, conference swag ideas, and expert insights, all culminating in a guide that showcases the art of crafting a triumphant event presence.
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How to Design Custom Socks Online
If you are looking to make custom logo socks, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find out that there are a lot of easy ways to find out how to design socks! The process starts with the custom sock design- this is where you will be able to customize socks with logo, colors, art and styles of your choice.
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Best Trade Show Giveaways of 2022
There are 3 important things to consider when evaluating trade show giveaway ideas. Portability, practicality, and branding. This list covers our top 5 favorite event giveaways!
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4 Reasons Branded Socks and Promo Socks are Trending
When custom branded socks and promotional socks hit the market they quickly became a trendy promotional product that stood out! As brands, companies, and businesses are always looking for the latest and greatest ideas for company swag, conference giveaways, employee gifts, etc - custom logo socks climbed the list fast!
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Giving Back to the Community: How TOOF Is Impacting Lives and Why Socks Make a Difference
Learn more about Sock Club's giveback program to help local Austin organizations in need. Featuring one of our incredible philanthropy partners, TOOF.
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The Best Custom Socks We've Found
From corporate custom socks with logos to event promotional socks, to branded socks as merchandise, we’ve created and seen some of the coolest and craziest custom sock designs as sock manufacturers!
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Everything You Need to Know to Make Custom Socks with Logos
Many brands and companies know custom socks are a unique way to excite people, whether as promotional socks or company swag so we put together everything you need to design the perfect custom logo socks and place a bulk order!
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Employee Spotlight: Hanna King Design
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s incredible custom socks. We want you to meet one of our incredibly talented designers, Hanna King!
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4 Ways to Put Your Logo on Socks
Custom logo socks are a unique and stylish way to build your brand. Custom socks will make your logo stand out, and can be customized to showcase the unique look and feel of your brand!
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How Much Yarn Does One Pair of Custom Socks Use, on Average?
Curious about the ins and outs of sock manufacturing? Did you know that depending on if they’re ankle socks, crew socks, or knee-high socks, on average, they take 200 yards of yarn! Click here to learn more!
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3 Easy Ways to Design the Best Custom Logo Socks
Are you trying to figure out how to put a logo on socks? Here are three easy ways we recommend as a professional custom sock company!
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Employee Spotlight: Michael Hintz Operations
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s incredible custom socks. We want you to meet one of our ambitious Operations team members, Michael Hintz!
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Custom Sock Manufacturing: How Custom Socks are Made
Ever wondered how custom socks are made? This is how we make our socks at our mills in North Carolina and where the future of sock manufacturing is headed.
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Employee Spotlight: Maureen Jennings Sock Designer
A series dedicated to meeting the minds behind Sock Club’s incredible custom socks. Starting off, we want y’all to meet one of our talented and creative sock designers, Maureen Jennings!
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Why Are Promotional Tools Important for Business?
Promotional tools are utilized to help businesses grow. They can help with increasing brand awareness, sales, and customer loyalty. Are you choosing the right promotional products for your goals? Click here to learn more.
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How Do I Decide Which Length of Custom Socks Are the Best?
The length of your socks can affect your appearance/overall look in a variety of ways. In this article, we will explore the various use cases for different sock lengths.
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Why Do Companies Give Out Swag at Events?
Here is an easy guide to what swag is, how to incorporate it into your marketing strategy, and giveaway recommendations to help your brand stand out!
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Austin!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Austin Van Vark, and his transition from a previous Product Manager role to being a Product Manager on Sock Club's Development team.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Mallory!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Mallory Haines, and her transition from Event Marketing and Account Manager positions to Field Marketing Specialist on Sock Club's Marketing team.
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Make the Most of Your Marketing Budget with Branded Swag
Can branded swag maximize the ROI in your marketing budget? My solutions to this problem? Lasers, non-dairy creamer, and Legos.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, David!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, David Harper, and his transition from Administrative Support for Universities to Office Manager on Sock Club's Customer Service team.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Sarah!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Sarah Valenzuela, and her transition from professional photography and photo editing to designing hundreds of new socks on Sock Club's marvelous Design team.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Casey!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Casey Cantrell, and his transition from the music industry as a Recording Engineer to the promotional products industry as a Software Engineer on Sock Club's spectacular Development team.
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ASI Chicago 2021 Trends and Takeaways
Linear helps streamline software projects, sprints, tasks, and bug tracking. Here’s how to get started.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Michelle!
Our team continues to grow! Learn more about our new hire, Michelle Twite, and her transition from designing leather accessories to designing hundreds of new socks on Sock Club's incredible Design team.
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Kitting, Dropshipping, and Fulfillment: A Step-By-Step Guide
Simplifying the process for individual fulfillment in the promotional product industry.
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Welcome Sock Club's Newest Hire, Caleb!
Our team is growing! Learn more about our newest hire, Caleb Smith, and his transition from restaurant manager to Sock Club's Customer Success team.
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Five Unexpected Ways To Use Custom Socks
Custom socks are unique and fun gifts for so many occasions. Here are five unexpected ways to spread custom sock love.
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Why Custom Socks Make the Best Volunteer Gifts
Finding the right volunteer gifts can be rough. Here's why you should give custom socks out to your next round of fearless volunteers.
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Christmas in July Webinar - Q4 Planning
Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Christmas in July webinar from Sock Club. Thank you so much for voting in the poll. I think we can all use a little bit of Holly Jolly right now.
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How to Use Swag to Enhance Company Culture
More than 16 million American workers have made the transition to working remotely since the COVID-19 outbreak became widespread in March 2020.
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How to make a virtual event a success
2020 was on track to being the best year yet for most businesses. Buyer confidence was high, and the proven methods of sales and marketing were working. However, the COVID-19 pandemic brought that to a screeching halt. Buyer confidence plummeted, and most companies are in survival mode.
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Sock Club Donations
Our Sock Club donations are geared toward helping amazing organizations get socks to those most in need. See how you can help donate today!
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Employee Spotlight: Samantha Campbell
Samantha Campbell joined the Sock Club team in July 2023 as our Customer Success Manager, helping to level up our customer service team, training, and service analytics so that we can continue to hold true to that value of service that has always set us apart.
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Employee Spotlight: Rehan Sattar
Rehan Sattar joined the Sock Club team in July 2023 as our Sales Operations Manager, helping to level up our sales business intelligence and software so that we can grow with our customers.
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How To Design Socks: Five Ways to Maximize your Header Cards
Header cards offer an ideal packaging solution for custom socks, allowing brands to display their identity, convey information, and enhance aesthetics, creating a harmonious combination with the socks for a complete and customizable packaging experience.
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From Seed To Sock: Custom Sock Packaging
In this blog post, we delve into the world of sock packaging, exploring the considerations, techniques, and innovations that go into ensuring your branded socks leave a lasting impression from first glance to the last wash.
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The History and Significance of Employee Appreciation Day
In this article, we will delve into the history of Employee Appreciation Day, explore its significance, and provide unique gift ideas to celebrate this special day.
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Employee Spotlight: Ilia Belov
Ilia Belov joined the Sock Club team in August 2023 as our B2B E-Commerce Manager, helping to level up our digital marketing so that we can reach even more people who might not realize (yet!) that custom socks are the solution to their problem.
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Employee Spotlight: Jess Kyneur
Jess Kyneur joined the Sock Club team in July 2023 as an Operations Coordinator, helping to speed up our production even further and focus on sustainability initiatives.
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