Nashville and middle Tennessee promotional merchandise, logo apparel, and swag.
Nov 10, 2025
Edibles like chocolates, nuts, cheese, sausages and more; make for excellent holiday gifts for employees or customers. Some of the ones with a lot of variety are great to give to an entire office ...
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Before you do a search for some good seasonal swag ideas, check out our Q3 Specials that has many ideas appropriate for this time of year. Here's 10 great ideas below, but there's plenty more in o...
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Want to get the most effectiveness our of your promotional product gifts this summer? Give the recipients something that will come in handy while they are having fun during these warm months! ...
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Nothing like the relief of sunny and warm weather after those cold and dreary winter months. People are ready to get out more and have some fun! Here's some spring and summer appropriate items th...
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Q2 specials are always fun to research and post because there's so many fun activities coming up in the warmer months. Whether it is for fun, like camping, golf, beach items; or work items li...
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There are a lot of sales conferences or other business and group meetings to kick off each new year. Here are 10 promotional products that make great gift items for such events. If you orde...
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Offering logo apparel to your employees and customers will achieve many objectives, among them building morale and free advertising. Whether you are looking for office attire or to clothe servi...
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It is getting to be crunch time for purchasing holiday gifts for clients and/or employees. Promo Hounds can help you find just the right gift no matter your budget! Here's 7 suggestions: In...
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Promo Hounds' Q4 specials are live on our site now! You can view all of them here - Promo Hounds' Q4 Specials Besides the items highlighted below there is an emphasis on holiday gift ideas wit...
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We've been hard at work the past few weeks lining up the featured items for our 2024-2025 Fall/Winter apparel line! Here's 10 of the top picks below, and you can view the entire line at Promo H...
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Tailgating is a great way for friends, clients and prospects to come together and celebrate with good food, beverages and cheer. It is also a great opportunity to get your organization's name ...
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What ever happened to school starting after Labor Day? IDK but since it is starting soon here are 10 ideas for promotional items your company could donate to local schools, especially to help t...
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Life can be stressful, so why not give promotional items that are fun and/or relaxing to help the recipients relieve stress? Your promotional items are more likely to be kept and used then, a...
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After being cooped up for the cool winter months people are ready to get outdoors and have some fun! You can be sure people will keep and use your trade show swag by giving them items they ca...
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Giving the right promotional item for the right time of year greatly increases the chances of the recipients keeping and using them...and keeping your name in front of them. Outdoor type items ...
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The weather's getting warmer and people are ready to get out and have some fun! Here's a few items from Promo Hounds' Q2 Specials to make your spring events more fun! Sitka 18 Can Cooler ...
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We are excited to roll out our 2024 Spring/Summer Apparel line, featuring more name brands than ever before! We also have plenty of industry staples that make for great uniforms, etc. To refre...
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The way we work, especially from where we work, has changed significantly since Covid. Working remotely does not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, though for many now the week means ...
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Looking for holiday gift ideas or other seasonal promotional merchandise? Be sure and look through Promo Hounds' Q4 Specials. Here's a brief overview of some of the great ideas: 3¼...
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There are some great additions to this year's Promo Hounds' 2023 Fall/Winter Apparel Shop, and there a few best-selling returning pieces. You will find some nice choices including oxford shirt...
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Unlike retail, it really is getting to be time for choosing your holiday gift ideas for clients or employees because of production times, inventory, etc. Food items are always popular for holid...
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Looking for some promo ideas to enhance events or needs during July, August or September? Check our Q3 Specials on Promohounds.com! Here's 10 great ideas to give you some examples. Just click...
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Summertime, time for fun outdoor events to relax and renew ourselves. You can make your organization's events more memorable by adding some fun summertime promos. Here's 11 suggestions of popular...
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Warm weather usually means more outdoor events for clients and staff. Here's a dozen warm weather kits to make your events more memorable! Fun In The Sun Kit Deluxe Fun I...
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Spring and summer months are made for fun as the weather warms and people are out and about more enjoying themselves. You can mix business and pleasure with just the right promotional merchandise....
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Promo Hounds' 2023 Spring/Summer Apparel is out now! This year you will find more retail brand name items for your company's or organization's imprinted apparel, making your employees look even mo...
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We had another great trip, first in a few years, to the Promotional Product Association's annual new product show in Las Vegas. Here's a sampling of some of the best items found: Savannah ...
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We are definitely headed down the backstretch of 2022! We hope yours has been a good year. Promo Hounds Q4 specials are now online! Check out these Q4 specials below, our top 12 choices! Pop...
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Promo Hounds is excited about our new Fall and Winter Apparel Line and hope you will be also! We've updated the selections with name brands like adidas, Under Armour, Callaway, Oakley, Ogio ...
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Have you had a chance to check out Promo Hounds' Q2 Seasonal Specials? There's a great assortment of useful items during the warmer months along with tech items, sustainable items and more. He...
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Promo Hounds rolled out its all new 2022 Spring/Summer Apparel line in our online Apparel Shop. Our Apparel Shop is where we display some of our top choices for the current seasons. It is BY FAR ...
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Promo Hounds is dedicated to showing clients and prospects sustainable swag items. Following is a blog from one of our chief suppliers, Koozie Group (which is A LOT more than Koozies) we fin...
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Are you still in need of holiday gift ideas for your employees or clients? We have plenty in our Seasonal Specials but let's highlight a few here to get started! If you like giving fun item...
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Logo apparel has continued to be a top sales category throughout 2020 and 2021. Part of this is with all the online meetings it provides better identity of your business. We've just updated our A...
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I'll admit that I'm guilty of this, not realizing that when the world returned to “normal” after Covid things would just never be the same. I actually did realize that would be t...
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We are especially excited to roll out our 2021 Q3 specials as there are some nice new items included along with some that due to Covid (when many weren't even looking at swag) may be new to you. H...
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This is a short and sweet blog to introduce you to the Next Level sueded fabric t-shirts and apparel. They say it is the softest material in the industry and it just might be! This fabric has a ...
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Though I usually try to stay from any kind of topic that may be controversial, I do feel it is imperative to promote getting back to business as close to what used to be normal as possible. I d...
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Rhetorical question, who's ready for things to get back to normal or as close as they were to before Covid? We are! This may be a bit premature but in just the past few days we have seen a ...
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Promo Hounds would like to wish everyone the happiest and merriest holiday season this year! We would like to express special appreciation to all our customers who helped us this year, in ...
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What could be a more appropriate swag item for 2020 than a stress reliever? If this year hasn't presented unusual stress for you I'd like to meet you! Here's a few suggestions along with appropri...
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Promo Hounds' 2020 Q4 Specials are live now! This quarter's specials have a slant towards holiday gifts, PPE items and ideas for gifts to give employees to welcome them back to your physical work ...
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With so many businesses keeping their employees working from home for a while longer, some till at least 2021, maybe it is a good idea to make their home work space more productive and feeling m...
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Well I wish I could give you an unbiased position but that's a little difficult given our line of business. But yes, you should. Since I am not an expert on this subject I did some online resear...
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As businesses ease back into what I call the “new reality” it might be helpful to know what type of swag items are of more use now besides PPE items. We do have just about a...
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If you are contemplating how to push sales in this new environment, direct mail is worth considering. Promo Hounds has expertise in helping you do this! First a little background. Before fou...
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We are very excited to let you know about the newest innovation with Promo Hounds designed to give you less expensive costs and higher quality when printing on lower quantities of t-shirts! Promo ...
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With a little luck and peeps adhering to staying at home for a couple more weeks, hopefully many will be returning to their offices soon. We certainly hope so as you do also. It's been such a tim...
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Promo Hounds New 2020 Spring and Summer Apparel Line is online now and can be viewed in our Apparel Shop! Though there are literally hundreds of other shirts available, we have chosen these based ...
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Doing business when everyone is being encouraged to social distance is a bit of a challenge. We believe, and practice ourselves, it is important though to keep your name in front of clients and...
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Just like with automobiles, which used to only come out with new models each fall, new swag items that traditionally were introduced in January of each year are now introduced year-round. There st...
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I'll have to admit that when waist, hip, or fanny packs started showing up from suppliers a couple years ago I was skeptical. I thought that maybe a senior citizen place could use them, but who el...
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This article is reprinted from Advantage Magazine, a promotional products trade journal. By Crissa Debree Some trends spend years growing incrementally before reaching a tipping point. Other...
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If your company plans to encourage healthier living for your employees in 2020, here's some relatively inexpensive items to help carry that message throughout the year. Prices are based on 2019 pr...
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Whether you are looking for a swag item to give employees to kick off 2020 or for customers, these following 10 are inexpensive and effective. Yes they may seem like common items, but they are als...
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Sure you are wondering why we are publishing a post in early November about 2020 trade shows. First you can order now and avoid price increases from suppliers that typically come January 1. ...
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Though there's so many holiday gift ideas available and trying to narrow it down to a dozen is a formidable challenge, we're crazy enough to do it anyway. So here's 12 Holiday Gift Ideas for Busin...
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Promo Hounds, after much sniffing around and tracking down the best choices, has introduced our 2019 Fall/Winter Apparel Line. There is over 25 new items including dress shirts, ladies shirts a...
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Are you familiar with sensory memory? Here is a definition from Wikipedia: Sensory memory (SM) is an automatic response, not under conscious control. It deals with the input from the senses. The...
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This is probably true for most business sectors, but it occurs to me often because of client requests that most people are not familiar with how the promotional product industry works. So here's a...
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Hopefully you caught our last post about football-themed promotions in general. This week we are covering some great tailgating items more specifically. First of all no one wants to bake i...
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August workouts have started, even though it is still July, and football season is right around the corner. Whether you are doing a promotion to support an actual team or just a football themed pr...
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Writing instruments, which includes pens, pencils and highlighters, are the top-selling category of promotional items. There are so many different type pens available now that we thought it would ...
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Promo Hounds has just posted our Q3 specials and whether you need promos/swag for summer events, the upcoming school year or just trendy items; we think you will find some great suggestions here! ...
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Reusable straws thankfully are becoming much more popular now. Let's get this point out of the way first; they are not for everyone and from our experience they really seem to be more popular with...
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If you do not know about it already, let me introduce you to the Richardson 112 Snapback Trucker Cap. In my over 20 years in this business I've never run across a more requested cap than this one!...
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We understand that everyone wants to get the best deal they can when purchasing promotional products (swag) for their marketing, safety, human resources programs, etc. However, you can go too far ...
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We are seeing more requests for information regarding wireless chargers for use as promotional products or swag marketing. The main issue with them is that not all phones are compatible, except ...
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Not every promotional product (swag) company can provide you with Under Armour apparel that can be decorated with your logo, but Promo Hounds can. Under Armour limits their distribution to a se...
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Beach towels are a fairly popular warm weather promotional item. When choosing a beach towel there are three main criteria to consider: type of material, size and weight. Here's a brief guide to...
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Hopefully you are enjoying this spring weather of late as much as we are! The Promo Hound gives his approval: If you are looking for business related promotional items you'll find items like...
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We've just rolled out our 2019 2019 Spring/Summer Apparel Line and think you will find some styles you'll love there. Couple things to point out first. Almost any item shown in our 2019 Sprin...
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Seems a very popular trend these days is to put a speaker, particularly Bluetooth speakers, on items that would not normally have a speaker. Here's a few examples below: This backpack with Blu...
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If you are wondering what promotional items other companies are purchasing currently, here's your answers based on our clients. You will not see many of these matching up with some of the new item...
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Happy New Year to you all. We at Promo Hounds wish all the best for you and your business in 2019. Though we haven't been to the new product show yet (that is mid-January), we thought it would ...
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That's a rather large question I guess. If we had a wishing ball we'd probably wish for the moon. Hopefully we would hope for something to help the less fortunate also. Here's a list of some ...
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I could say we get asked often about the insulation in the popular light-weight down-alternative type jackets so popular today, but that would be a lie. I just thought you might want to know...
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Embroidery can be more than a decoration technique. It can be a work of art. However many people shy away from it due to the misconception it is expensive. Embroidery really is no more than s...
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Two biggest questions we get: What's hot or popular right now? How soon can I get.....? We will leave the second unanswered for now as it really depends on what product you need in a r...
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Maybe this has occurred to many of you already, but it was enlightening to me several years ago when I read about it. When choosing a promotional item, the more senses it can appeal to then ...
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If I had a dime for every time a client asks us “what's the newest promotional item” I wouldn't need to sell any more of them. We do like to preach to clients that the newest isn't alw...
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Currently the biggest issues facing anyone planning to buy promotional items are supply shortages and upcoming price increases. We've seen a growing trend in 2018 of suppliers being out of sto...
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I've seen a LOT of polo shirts during my twenty years or so in the promotional products business. I've seen several that claim their collars do not roll, but they do. Why is this and how do you g...
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What's hot in promotional apparel trends for 2018? Nicer dress shirts, more offerings for women, jersey type shirts and the melange/heather look....LOTS of melange/heather look! If you want to dr...
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It is by far the question we are asked most often. What are clients buying from you lately? We've reviewed our orders from 2017 to date and below are our top sellers for 2017. This is b...
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We've just posted our all new fall and winter apparel line and there's some exciting new items this year! We've included many items such as long sleeve polos, long sleeve oxford shirts, long sl...
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Our 4th quarter specials have some great ideas for holiday gifts, fall tradeshows, client gifts, and items for personal use like in your car or at home! Here's a brief overview, just click any ...
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I do in general, as in when it comes to talking about gifts and so forth for family and friends. I DO NOT though when it comes to talking about business and corporate gifts because it is such...
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What's the difference between screen printing and embroidery? How about debossing and embossing? And what's the best fabric for laser appliqué? If you're not so sure about your answers, thi...
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Almost everyone loves to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather in middle Tennessee this time of year. It's all good, except for the heat. So our Promo Hound has tracked down the best items ...
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Everyone always wants to know what's “hot” right now with promotional products. We have your answers. Lumping the top ones into two categories the most popular would be cell phone acc...
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Spring is a time of year when everything comes to life, people get on the go more, and there's correlating increased activity in business too! With that in mind we wanted to tell you a bit about ou...
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This is not fake news. Most of the metal double-wall tumblers (travel mugs/cups) you can get now are in the same category, as far as how long they will keep liquids hot or cold, as the YETI ones ...
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Let's put this spin on the holiday season this year. Let's say Thanksgiving is the beginning of the season to be more thankful for all we have, and maybe even for what we do not have. Instead of ...
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These 10 popular shirts, vests and jackets can have you and your employees looking professional while sporting your company logo this fall and winter. Still trendy are soft shell jackets, fleece j...
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We're always excited to post a new series of seasonal specials, and we think our Q4 specials will solve most your promotional product needs. Here's an overview of what you'll find (they begin on o...
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