The Marquee guidebook
Clear, practical guidance for choosing merchandise, preparing your artwork and planning a project that works.
Start with the essentials
A step-by-step ordering guide covering a useful brief, samples, quote comparisons, minimum quantities, proof approval, and delivery checks.
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Events & Trade Shows
Plan a trade show giveaway program around audience, booth conversations, realistic quantities, budget tiers, transport, and a useful follow-up.
Read the guide : How to Choose the Right Promotional Items for a Trade ShowPromotional Products
Understand promotional products, choose a useful role for merchandise, and plan a first order around audience, cost, artwork, and distribution.
Read the guide : What Are Promotional Products? A Practical Guide for BusinessesPromotional Products
Choose useful branded merchandise by audience, setting, quality, portability, branding, and a practical sample scorecard instead of generic best-seller lists.
Read the guide : How to Choose Promotional Products People Will Actually UseBudget & Planning
A step-by-step ordering guide covering a useful brief, samples, quote comparisons, minimum quantities, proof approval, and delivery checks.
Read the guide : How to Order Promotional Products Without Missing the DetailsBudget & Planning
Compare the full cost of branded merchandise: quantity, decoration, setup charges, packaging, freight, and practical ways to protect your budget.
Read the guide : How Much Do Promotional Products Cost? A Practical Budget GuideBudget & Planning
Plan affordable giveaways under a real delivered-cost ceiling, compare economical categories, and save on decoration and packaging within a complete delivered budget.
Read the guide : Low-Cost Promotional Products That Do Not Feel Like an AfterthoughtBudget & Planning
Estimate merchandise quantities using eligible recipients, distribution assumptions, reserve needs, event scenarios, apparel sizes, and existing inventory.
Read the guide : How Many Promotional Products Should You Order?Corporate Gifting
Choose client gifts with recipient fit, acceptance policies, budget tiers, restrained branding, food preferences, presentation, and delivery in mind.
Read the guide : How to Choose Corporate Gifts People Will Actually UseEmployee Programs
Build a useful new-hire kit with practical product choices, budget tiers, remote and hybrid adaptations, apparel sizing, and a repeatable packing plan.
Read the guide : What to Put in an Employee Welcome Kit: 10 Ideas That Actually Get UsedEmployee Programs
Plan employee gifts for appreciation, milestones, recognition, holidays, and team events with fair eligibility, useful choices, budgets, and repeatable operations.
Read the guide : Employee Appreciation Gifts and Swag Programs That Make SenseBranded Apparel
Compare company tees, polos, caps, and outerwear by job, fabric, fit, sizing, decoration, placement, care, and reorder needs.
Read the guide : How to Choose Company Apparel People Will WearEvents & Trade Shows
Plan useful event merchandise for conferences, networking, openings, festivals, races, and employee gatherings, with kit, quantity, and distribution guidance.
Read the guide : Event Swag That Fits the Experience: Kits, Giveaways, and Guest GiftsBudget & Planning
Work backward from your in-hand date and account for selection, proofs, production, shipping, assembly, and event receiving requirements.
Read the guide : How Far in Advance Should You Order Promotional Products?Miami & South Florida
Choose preparedness-related merchandise as a supplement to an official emergency plan, with product documentation, kit scope, storage, and distribution checks.
Read the guide : Hurricane Preparedness Merchandise for Businesses and EmployeesSustainability
Distinguish U.S. manufacturing, domestic decoration, assembly, shipping origin, and union-made claims before specifying promotional merchandise.
Read the guide : Made-in-USA and Union-Made Promotional Products: What to VerifyPromotional Products
Evaluate merchandise with clear objectives, meaningful response measures, realistic cost calculations, QR-code tracking, and honest attribution limits.
Read the guide : Are Promotional Products Effective? Measure Your Own ProgramEvents & Trade Shows
Plan golf player gifts, sponsor bags, umbrellas, coolers, blankets, and outdoor accessories around the activity, transport, weather, and recipient needs.
Read the guide : Outdoor and Golf Merchandise: Choose for the ActivityPromotional Products
Compare totes, drawstring bags, backpacks, lunch bags, and coolers by carrying load, comfort, construction, decoration, and distribution needs.
Read the guide : Promotional Bags: Choose the Right Tote, Backpack, or CoolerPromotional Products
Choose branded drinkware by daily routine, material, lid, cleaning, portability, decoration, and delivery, with practical bottle-versus-tumbler comparisons.
Read the guide : Promotional Drinkware: Bottles, Tumblers, and Mugs ComparedPromotional Products
Compare writing products, notebooks, desk items, and travel accessories by real use, sample quality, imprint space, portability, and audience fit.
Read the guide : Pens, Notebooks, and Everyday Accessories Worth Choosing CarefullyArtwork & Decoration
Compare screen printing, embroidery, DTG, DTF, heat transfer, sublimation, engraving, pad printing, debossing, and digital decoration by use case.
Read the guide : A Buyer's Guide to Promotional Product Decoration MethodsPromotional Products
Evaluate branded chargers, cables, power banks, speakers, and phone accessories using compatibility, documentation, usability, travel, and packaging checks.
Read the guide : Promotional Tech Products: Buy for Compatibility, Not NoveltyEmployee Programs
Choose career-fair merchandise that supports useful conversations, clear job information, portable takeaways, and a measurable recruiting follow-up.
Read the guide : Recruiting Giveaways for Career Fairs and Campus EventsBranded Apparel
Compare printed and stitched logos by garment, design size, detail, quantity, comfort, and cost, with practical examples for shirts, polos, and caps.
Read the guide : Screen Printing vs. Embroidery: Which Is Right for Your Logo?Budget & Planning
Plan distributed merchandise deliveries with address collection, kit specifications, packing lists, carrier requirements, venue receiving, and exception handling.
Read the guide : How to Ship Promotional Products to Multiple LocationsMiami & South Florida
Plan Miami and South Florida merchandise around heat, rain, outdoor transitions, hospitality, air travel, venue receiving, and local program needs.
Read the guide : Promotional Products for South Florida Events and Outdoor ProgramsSustainability
Evaluate recycled, reusable, rPET, bamboo, FSC, and responsible-sourcing claims, and reduce unnecessary merchandise through better quantity and product decisions.
Read the guide : Sustainable Promotional Products: How to Evaluate the ClaimsArtwork & Decoration
Know what to send for printing, engraving, and embroidery, including vector files, raster resolution, color references, and small-logo adaptations.
Read the guide : What Logo File Format Do You Need for Promotional Products?Start your project
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