I spend a lot of time thinking about t-shirts, noticing t-shirts, reading t-shirts. This weekend was no different. In a restaurant I sat people watching, mostly t-shirt watching actually. Summertime in San Diego is great for t-shirt watching. I can see the Southern CA t-shirt influences, the out-of-state/tourist t-shirt influences, the younger generation, the [...]
Continue Reading →The Evolution of the T-Shirt
T-shirts have to be one of the most enduring of all clothing styles for the last 50 or more years. The plain white t-shirt was broken out of its “undershirt” role by rebels like James Dean, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, overexposed by Fonzie only to be re-invented again [...]
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I’ve been thinking about signs a lot lately. Not sure why. It may be that our office is located off an extremely busy thoroughfare that is packed with stores and strip malls all vying for the traffic’s attention. Every retailer dreams of high traffic counts in front of their store but of course [...]
The SAAC just ended a two-day run in Long Beach and I was lucky enough to be able to attend yesterday. For those of you who are outside of California, and I know that a lot of you are, the SAAC is the Specialty Advertising Association of California. California as most of [...]
Continue Reading →I know this horse has been beaten to death but everyday I am reminded of the terrible state of customer service by the actions of those hired (and paid) by companies to serve me; be it in a restaurant, a coffee kiosk, a grocery store, even a toll booth. [...]
Continue Reading →I spent a day comparing and contrasting two very different types of trade shows. One is the largest trade show in San Diego; Comic-Con. A trade show all about pop culture, with an audience ranging from young to old, but all with the same passion for the non-conventional. 125,000 attendees, dressed in any number of [...]
Continue Reading →If you have been following our last couple of blogs, you’ll recall that we’ve been using ourselves as a case study for trade show marketing as we prepare to participate in a local trade show. While we may have seemed a bit coy about which show we were attending, if you [...]
Continue Reading →PromoVentures is offering a pair of free tickets to next weekend’s (July 22 – July 25) San Diego Yacht & Boat Show. To win, you need to be the 5th person to DM us on our twitter account (@PromoVentures). Hurry!
More tickets next week and more details on our plans for showing [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, we blogged about an upcoming regional show we are planning to show at to expand our local footprint in our hometown of San Diego. PromoVentures is a national apparel producer (if you missed the story of our recent Disney job, click here) and promotional products distributor. But like a lot [...]
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