Sock Club Client Spotlights

The Whataburger team was not only impressed with the quality of the product, but how our in-house design team was able to act as an extension of their branding team. “We have sold out of almost every design we have ordered from Sock Club over a span of at least 3 years. We always have new designs and reorders in the works at Sock Club.”

Talent.com’s clients’ needs are constantly changing and their technology needs to adapt quickly to offer a good job search experience. With all the ongoing changes, they need to innovate and always find the best ways to connect the right candidates with their employer clients.

For their first project with Sock Club, the Palisades Canyon team designed a gift that was full of a mix of high end snacks and corporate swag sure to be used. Moore said of the client’s reaction, “Sock Club was a huge hit!”

The Catskill Animal Sanctuary team was looking for a gift to offer digitally to generate donations to their following. Our mutual friends at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary recommended Sock Club’s custom socks, as they had previously had success generating donations by offering socks as a gift to their donors.

“I haven't been this pleased with a product, process and service in a long time. This is a no-brainer,” said Marzullo. “100% will be ordering again.”

1338Tryon is a WBENC-certified Woman-Owned tangible engagement agency based in Portland, Oregon. They primarily focus on Fortune 1000 companies and the agencies that serve them. 1338Tryon bridges the gap between traditional marketing agencies and branded merch providers.

What sets Teak & Twine apart from other corporate gifting companies is that they’ve kept the high bar for customer service essential for working on weddings, and applied that to working with their awesome corporate partners.

Corporate Couture is a women-owned & operated promotional product distributor in the SF Bay Area. Founder Sarah Costello and her team have been collaborating with companies big and small on custom corporate gifts since 2008! They produce all things custom swag from branded apparel and bags to drinkware and tech... you name it!

After having some success with his t-shirt designs, Adamson and the OBS team were looking for the next unique merch item to add to their collection. “I really wanted to branch out into something that I haven’t seen as much, tattoo inspired socks!"

Tynt is a new way to experience natural light at home with smart tinting windows. Founded in 2020, Tynt makes elegant, ultra climate-friendly windows that adapt to your changing needs throughout the day.

The Herban Cannasseur is a lifestyle brand established in 2020. They want people to be just as proud wearing a cannabis themed piece of clothing as they would wearing alcohol branded clothing.

As Chief Wellness Officer and founder of Self-Care by Aisha, Aisha Moore has taught countless women executives how to put themselves first and avoid burnout through life-changing self-care practices.

Matt Fischer turned to branded swag to help raise money for JDRF and support the team. When Fischer found out about Sock Club through an internet search, and saw the low minimum order quantity, he wanted to give Sock Club custom socks a try.

FACTUALITY evokes empathy, increases cultural competence, & enhances self-awareness. Having reached over 55,000 global participants, spanning across six continents, in under seven years, FACTUALITY is arguably one of the easiest ways to engage diverse groups in conversations on diversity.

One of Torq’s main drivers of new business is attending in-person tradeshows and events. Torq team looks to source the swag that they give out at event responsibly, meaning companies that minimize carbon impact, give back to their communities, or have fair labor practices.

The museum of the Seminole Tribe of Florida is tasked with telling the rich and vibrant story of the Seminole people in Florida. Their target audience is the local community as well as those interested in the art and culture of the Seminoles.

Golden State, along with their business philosophy, began in 1954, at a time when customers were treated as partners and companies acted small. For the past six decades, they have continued to embody this philosophy by putting their customers first. As the premier Northern California supplier of building materials, their priority is to put their customers in the best position to succeed. “When You Succeed, We Succeed!”

Humboldt Distillery has been in business since 2013 when 5th-generation Humboldt County resident Abe Stevens and his wife Courtney began hand-bottling their organic vodka. In the 8 years since they’ve been proud to become California's best-selling brand of organic vodka, and they’ve introduced other spirits such as spiced rum and hemp-infused vodka.

Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, Calif., Technica Communications is an award-winning, boutique, public relations, social media, and content marketing firm. With over 90% of its client base focused on the cleantech and sustainability markets, Technica possesses the deep expertise and contacts required to deliver top-quality results in these challenging sectors. 

Cellino Law has been in business since 1958 and has helped collect over $2 billion for personal injury victims across NY State. When people are out of work or unable to lead a normal lifestyle due to an injury, they are there to help them take on the insurance companies and get their feet back on the ground financially.

Patrick Gabaldon, the artist behind Gabaldon Art, said he started his business because “First impressions are usually lasting ones- good or bad. Our hometown has been subject to some bad first impressions so I made it my goal to make a new first impression for El Paso Texas and the border.”

Founded in 2016, Unchained Capital provides a range of financial services to long-term bitcoin holders. Products include collaborative custody vaults, a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin retirement accounts. All of their services use bitcoin multisig to maximize clients’ ownership over their bitcoin. Not your keys, not your coins.

Founded in 1864, The Peddie School is a private, independent, co-educational boarding and day school for grades 9-12 and postgraduate located in Hightstown, NJ.

Ashby Creative Lab created an entire brand identity for Adlai E. Stevenson High School located in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Every year, Stevenson’s Superintendent, Eric Twadell, comes up with a special birthday gift that he shares with each employee on their birthday. As teachers were returning in-person post-pandemic, he knew that this year’s birthday gift needed to be special. 

Bozz Prints was founded by John Bosley (Bozz) in Des Moines, Indiana in 2015 with the vision of paying homage to the cities and landmarks widely known and loved through thoughtfully designed art, apparel, and other goods. The idea took off and Bozz Prints quickly transitioned from a one-man enterprise operating out of John’s basement to a full-blown brick and mortar shop in West Des Moines’ Historic Valley Junction.

Effectively opening the window of communication for brands to engage with consumers in new, exciting ways requires a skilled team of creative problem solvers that find purpose in advocating for their clients’ brands. Founders of the all-inclusive TV agency Marketing Architects noticed a lack of such teams existing within the media advertising space more than 20 years ago and accepted the challenge of making quality engagement opportunities within the medium accessible for performance brands of any size or tenure.

When it comes to accelerated analytics, OmniSci is the pioneer. The platform is used to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. The power in their data tool is for their sought after in-cloud and on-premise capabilities.

Starting in 2008, A Thinking Ape is changing the way people socialize. They’re creating unique worlds in their mobile games and the “secret sauce” they take pride in -- building a sense of community within the worlds they create. ATA currently runs four mobile games: Party in My Dorm, Casino X, Kingdoms of Heckfire and, the classic, Kingdoms at War.

As a public charter school, ACA works with a relatively small budget. Faculty typically have dual roles and they rely on a strong community of volunteers. According to Mia Russo, Coordinator of Fundraising and Development, “Our Parent Teacher Organization has been incredibly instrumental in providing much-needed resources, activities, and morale-boosting celebrations for our students, parents, and staff. Through their generous donation of time, our parents send a positive message to all students about the importance of education.”

“We have a wide ranging audience and broad reach so can be a challenge marketing to them all at one time,” said Metro's Merch Manager, Tara Shanahan. The Metro team was impressed with the high quality custom socks that Sock Club creates for our clients, as well as the quick turnaround time.

Flyhomes is an innovative real estate firm that has reinvented the home purchase process for buyers. Clearing obstacles to homeownership was their primary goal for their clients. With multiple counterparts that Flyhomes encounters, their goal was to find a way for custom socks to be used in various promotional ventures. Chase from Flyhomes described their venture needs for "employees, leads, clients, friends/family of employees, trade-show attendees, event promotion, and gift bags." 

“Our industry holiday, 4/20, was coming up. One of the things we wanted to focus on this year was celebrating our budtenders at our partner dispensaries. Budtenders are the people that help you shop at a dispensary, similar to a bartender. Expressing our appreciation was the ultimate goal. We delivered 'budtender boxes' with custom cannabis socks, various samples of our products, a booklet of information, and more to a bunch of our accounts.

Although Radio already has great branding, the Sock Club in-house team was an essential part of making Wilson’s dream for custom socks come true. “We've been extremely happy with the product Sock Club has provided. The buying process was quick and painless. Using Sock Club is easy, affordable, and quick,” said Wilson.

Although the original thought behind ordering custom socks was a creative corporate gift, they socks have been such a hit that the Bluetent team quickly had to reorder. “Our clients and prospects love them, as do our staff, so everyone is getting a pair."

Although holiday corporate gifts were not the first thought for custom socks for Xos, Russo-Zirkel was happy to add that use case to the wide variety of applications for custom socks that can help the Xos team stay engaged and connect to their clients.

“We had a great experience with Sock Club. The buying process was very efficient and smooth. Even though we were in the midst of Covid, that was not a factor.”

“We have used our Sock Club socks as Evergreen/monthly Donor gifts. The process was easy. We got great feedback from folks about the socks last year!”

The Elevate team hosts an annual golf tournament in an effort to reach the correct audience for fundraising, and found Sock Club in a search for golf tournament swag. “Our socks will be given to attendees of our charity golf tournament. The goal is to make branded socks our signature for the event each year.”

"The socks were such a hit that we have noticed alumni wearing them at other events on campus. I look forward to working with our design team on next year's Giving Day sock design!"

“We set out to make a pair of socks that would motivate people to give and they did! We usually have to reorder! And we see them out in the wild all the time on our donors' feet."

“Sock Club is a perfect fit if you're nervous about designing or don't have much experience in creating branded products. Their friendly designers do all the nitty-gritty design work and collaborate with you to find the style you need.”

“While I was not sure how the custom socks would be received by the board members, I was simply blown away by how much they loved them and wanted more."

“We also use Sock Club often to source for our clients who are also looking for high-quality and well-designed socks for their events and gifting initiatives. Sock Club is fast, reliable and their custom designs never fail to stand out in the crowd."

“We gave the socks out as part of our 2022 kickoff to get them ‘running’”, said Hart. “Very simple, quick turnaround, and fast delivery. It was about as good as you could get. We will definitely order again. We might create a new version to mix it up!”

“Everyone sends t-shirts or hoodies, but custom socks are a fun and unique way to show off the brand. We have received a ton of praise on the design and see people posting pictures and wearing them all over.”

The Training Tracker team tried ordering custom socks for their event swag, and they were hooked. “I love giving out socks because I don't need to worry about sizes. Besides, people seem to love fun and comfy socks.”

“We wanted to be unique and get people talking about our firm so we sent out custom socks to community partners, former clients, and just important people to our business during the holidays. These socks made such a great impact on their recipients and we received such good feedback that we just ordered our second batch of them.”

While the small initial order requirement was what initially attracted them to Sock Club, it was the samples that they received that convinced them to work with us. “The quality was what we were looking for.”

The Mosaic team counts their experience with Sock Club as a hit! "The products are of high quality and the business offers great customer service. I like that we can design them ourselves or have a design make them, it’s great for providing options!”

When asked if they would consider working with Sock Club again in the future, they said “We would definitely recommend Sock Club! They produce a great product that can help build company spirit. We plan to order more in the future! Keep up the great work.”

“From our first inquiry through our shipment arriving, Sock Club has provided the best customer service,” said Jane Violette, Marketing Manager at Participate. “I had a general idea of what our company wanted, but Sock Club brought them to life and provided so many great designs. They were even so thoughtful to email me after my shipment arrived to make sure everything was great!”

“We first ordered from Sock Club back in 2017 and were very impressed with the quality of the product we received,” said Founder, Pano Kalo. “We love that it's made in the USA from US grown cotton. In addition, the excellent design work that Sock Club provides is wonderful, and the super high level of customer service is really unique and hard to find these days. Also, the ultrafast turnaround is amazing.”

The Sock Club team helped the iland team in “figuring out the best [turnaround time] so that my company can have these [custom socks] on hand for an upcoming event. My rep was extremely helpful!”

“As a repeat customer, we can rely on Sock Club to deliver a quality customer experience and quality [branded socks] for our team, our customers and our partners,” said Tracy Smith, Director of Marketing at Tripshot.

Katie Clifford, Director of Business Development at ATLA has a simple message: Sock Club makes custom sock design easy.

"Sock Club is one of our favorite custom swag vendors to work with!" says Michelle Neimeyer, Senior Marketing Coordinator at MBP.

Jennifer Luczak, Events and Marketing Manager at T2 Systems, describes custom sock design: “The process is easy, customer-focused, fast, and of great quality."

"Whether you have an idea or finished design, Sock Club will take care of you," says Dorothy Lee, Sentry’s Senior Brand Designer, of her custom sock experience.