Miellyn is the Director of Marketing Content at Custom Ink. Her work has spanned marketing for television networks like TLC and Travel, educational content for Smithsonian and National Geographic, marketing and story for indie video games, essays for publishers including Random House, The Telegraph, and Smart Pop Books, and stories for press outlets like VICE and VH1.
Educator Trend Alert: T-shirt Rewards and Recognition
If you’re an educator, you probably spend a lot of time thinking about how to motivate and reward your students. Maybe you use reward stickers; candy prizes; good, old fashioned praise; or a combination of all of the above and more. An exciting new trend we’ve noticed is schools using custom t-shirts to celebrate and drive students’ [...]
10 Common Business Card Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
In this digital age, there’s still one thing that’s really handy to have on paper: your business contact information. Whether you’re meeting with potential clients, at a networking event, or just want to throw it in a fishbowl to enter to win free sandwiches for the office, a business card is an essential must-have for every wallet. Now [...]
“You Are Always Enough” Pride T-shirt Fundraiser
Sometimes the world changes us, and sometimes we change the world around us. Natalia Seth started changing her world through surrealistic photo compositions that turned into the wildly successful Instagram account Escaping Youth. Her work has now given her a social media platform to be able to help make things change for others. In honor [...]
Getting a New Leash on Life in Custom Team Shirts
Early on a recent Saturday morning, people from across Virginia gathered with their teams at the Richmond chapter of the national charity WALK MS, a walk to raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis, also known as MS. One group stood out from the others, and it wasn’t just because of their bright orange custom team shirts. The [...]
Sticking Power! 10 Events for Custom Stickers & Decals
Custom stickers can be a great way to show off your brand, team, or club’s personality. They are easy to share, can start conversations, and can be a reminder that sticks around for a long time whether it’s on your laptop, car, or someplace more unexpected. Here are ten different ways you can use stickers for all your products and [...]
Conference Survival Guide Series: 15 Promotional Products for Making an Impression
Conferences are not for the weak. They are a full-on onslaught of people, booths, networking, and opportunities and you have to be on your game. And people attending them get a lot of stuff. The best way to help your company stand out from the crowd is to make unique, memorable custom promotional products that they’ll actually use—at the [...]
Cancer Can’t Kill Love
Meaghan McGoldrick had lost both of her parents to cancer by the time she was 22 years old. Her father John Patrick “Butch” McGoldrick, an ironworker, passed in 2008 from lung cancer caused by his work at Ground Zero, and her mother Joanne died just five years later after a short bout with leukemia. After she lost her mother, [...]
16 ‘Dad Jokes’ Perfect for Father’s Day Shirts
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? Okay, but seriously, dad jokes are the best jokes, and while you don’t have to be a father to appreciate them, they are a great way to relate to the men you know who happen to have a kid or two running around. This Father’s Day, tell all the dads in your life that you love [...]