{"id":98,"date":"2023-10-12T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:44:00","slug":"no-promotional-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/no-promotional-products\/","title":{"rendered":"No Promotional Products!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cringe when people say <strong>promotional products.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Promotional products, to me, is synonymous with cheap logo&#8217;ed items that are given out &#8212; usually en masse &#8212; for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know what I mean: t-shirt guns, flashlights, wireless charging pads, koozis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I hate when people think I&#8217;m in promotional products. I call it branded merchandise, and here&#8217;s what branded merchandise is to me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> high-quality items you actually want to own<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> items you CHOOSE to own (they are not thrust upon you)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>designs that actually mean something to you and reflect the company&#8217;s values and identity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Promo items&#8221; should make you cringe &#8212; it&#8217;s the wasteful stuff you don&#8217;t want. Branded merchandise can be fun, easy, high-quality, and can actually increase the bottom line in your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s a promo item you want to hate but actually love? I&#8217;ll go first: SHORTS. If you give me shorts I will actually keep them forever. I&#8217;ll probably wear them until they have holes in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cringe when people say promotional products. Promotional products, to me, is synonymous with cheap logo&#8217;ed items that are given out &#8212; usually en masse &#8212; for free. You know what I mean: t-shirt guns, flashlights, wireless charging pads, koozis. So I hate when people think I&#8217;m in promotional products. I call it branded merchandise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[16,12,10,14,9,3],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-on-demand","tag-branded-merch","tag-corporate-gifting","tag-junk-swag","tag-print-on-demand","tag-reunion-swag","tag-swag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}