There aren't too many places that you can be as noisy as you want to be and have others try to rival you and make even more noise. That's why the stadium is a great place to enjoy a game and relieve a little stress. Sports stadiums are also a great place to promote your business. By branding sports noisemakers, you give the fans the tools to make even more noise while cheering for their favorite team and you market your business at the same time.

Your local high school and middle school sports teams would most likely welcome you to donate school spirit items for their team to either give away to their fans or sell in their school booster club store. The most common practice for ...

Most high schools are either finished for the school year or nearly finished; however, it's now time to be thinking about your lineup of school spirit items for the upcoming football season, which starts in August. Below you will find several of the most popular football spirit items to help your booster club raise money, along with suggested selling prices for your spirit items.

College football season is only a few months away and it's time to think about which type of mini footballs you will buy. When buying spirit items for your football games, there are typically 3 main types of mini footballs. Those would be plastic mini football, vinyl mini footballs, and foam mini footballs. The foam footballs are much more expensive and can typically be discounted as an option for bulk football giveaways because they are quite a bit more expensive. Therefore, that leaves plastic and vinyl mini footballs. We recommend buying the ....

The school year end is upon us, but with the shorter summer breaks than many of us use to have a several decades ago, that means you have to be planning the beginning of next school year now. That includes planning for your high school or middle school football games. Most school football games begin within just a few weeks after the start of the new school year, giving you a time crunch if you wait until then to get your order together for mini footballs.

Almost every business uses promotional items to help promote their business or organization and for good reason! Promotional items have been proven to be one of the most effective means of marketing your business, especially in terms of the cost per impression. Since recipients keep promotional items for a long term and use them repeatedly, the cost per impression is extremely low, typically less than a penny each. That means your custom printed message on that one item is exposed to hundreds or thousands of people. So how can you get FREE promotional items for your business, school, or non-profit organization? Well, it's actually much easier than you think.

As summer approaches and outdoor activities ramp up, it is common to see businesses all around you giving around koozies. This is because personalized koozies are cheap and useful. Who doesn't have a drawer full of various custom printed koozies that have been accumulated over the years. Although we do offer the traditional foam drink koozies, we challenge you to look past the standard old koozie and look at some of the more unique and fun koozies.

If you are looking for unique shaped koozies, we have...

When you are at the football stadium, it can be a time to de-stress and just let it all out in the form of yelling and cheering. However, at times, close games can be stressful too, but there is always loud cheering to help alleviate that stress. One of the best ways to show that school spirit is to use school spirit items such as thunder sticks. What are thunder sticks you may ask? They are inflatable tubes, typically about 2 feet long that you bang together to make a loud noise. These spirit items have taken sports by storm over the past decade. In this article, we compare these ever-popular stadium noisemakers to stadium horns, which are also a very popular noise making spirit item. Read on to see which one prevails....

Promotional drawstring bags are great summer promotions. Summertime is a season for fun. It is a time for travel, beach excursions, picnics, sports event, and many other outings. A drawstring bag with your custom logo imprint is a great giveaway which is not only useful but also a tool for . . .

Whether you are talking about football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or volleyball, one of the main job of cheerleaders is to keep the crowd involved in the game. That means keeping them yelling loudly. This keeps your team motivated, excited and actually helps them play better. Cheerleaders use music, dance, cheers, and spirit items to get this job done.

A cheap cheer megaphone is a ...

It seems like a lot of people of searching on google for "stadium cups no minimum" and landing on our site. We have a huge variety of stadium cups in many different sizes and colors. We even offer some specialty stadium cups that glow in the dark and some that are mood changing. Below is a brief rundown of a few of our stadium cup options that we can offer you with an extremely low minimum order, as low as ... 

Regarding to high school sports, there are dozens of sports to choose from. The first ones everyone thinks of are football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. However, another popular sport that is often overlooked is volleyball. Custom mini volleyballs are...

Now that March Madness, the Elite Eight, the Final Four, and the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship game has concluded, Louisville came out on top as the 2013 National Champions. The Cardinals entered the

The NCAA 2013 Basketball Tournament starts today. Round 1 gets underway this evening, so make sure you get your FREE Printable March Madness Bracket 2013. This is the most exciting time of the year for college basketball as the top 74 teams in the country go head to head to see who can make it to the Final Four and eventually become the NCAA National Champions.

Because of all of the excitement in the air, this is a great time to . . .

Super Bowl XLVII (47) is on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans, LA and it is a time for Super Bowl parties all over the country. Some of the parties are small get togethers at a friend's house, while other parties are organized by schools, organizations, and companies. Giving out mini footballs to larger parties is a great time to not only have fun and enjoy the game, but also a great time to promote your business. Below are a few mini football ideas to help bring in some new business

Custom tokens are extremely common promotional items because they are cheap and effective marketing tools to bring in new business. They have been used for decades to lure in customers who want to redeem the token for a free drink or item, percentage off of a purchase, or a specific dollar amount off a purchase. Promotional tokens can be used by any business, school, organization, or for promoting an event. Plastic tokens are great items to giveaway at events with large crowds such as festivals, parades, and concerts. Here are several ideas on how to effectively use custom tokens to promote your business, school, or event:

Mini basketballs are one of the most popular spirit items used for basketball.  Each mini basketball can have your logo, mascot, or team name printed on them.  They are fun, cheap, and have many uses.  Below are just 10 of the many ways to use mini basketballs.

1. Generate Team Spirit – It is so important to keep your fans in good spirits to help your basketball team.  It is well known that athletes thrive from cheering pans.  It gets their adrenaline pumping allowing them to play and focus better.  These mini basketballs can be thrown by the cheerleaders to the crowd after a slam dunk or after a big play.  They are also great to throw during timeouts, between quarters, or during halftime to keep the fans engaged.  Just have your mascot and team name printed on the balls and the lucky fans who catch them will have a keepsake to take home.
2. Pep Rallies – Fans love...

A Well-Established Restaurant Chain increased their sales by 11% for the week by throwing out Custom Mini Footballs with a Free Smoothie Coupon Printed on it.

CHALLENGE:  Find a giveaway that is inexpensive and will drive customers into their restaurant.  This client had experienced a dip in sales for the past few months due to the opening of similar restaurant chain in the area.  They wanted to pull the market share back into their direction. 

SOLUTION:  After some...

There are four major sports in the United States, their places solid and their popularity secure. However, in the coming decades a newcomer may threaten to overtake one or more of them. The rest of the world has already figured out something very important - soccer is...

It's December and college basketball season has started. Most of the games right now are non-conference games for most of the NCAA teams; however, conference games are right around the corner. It's important to show your school spirit and buying and using school spirit items are extremely helpful to cheer on your favorite team.

Though they might usually be associated with people who are sticklers for cleanliness and organization, promotional coasters are actually very important items. It isn't because they protect precious furniture from watermarks and coffee stains. Rather, coasters play an important role in

Passionate sports fans only want one thing - for their beloved team to succeed. If it weren't against the rules, and if they thought that it would actually help, they'd leap onto the field and start tackling receivers or knocking the ball out of the catcher's mitt. Unfortunately, their roles are limited to...

Saturday will be a big day for college football. Nearly all of the conference championship games will be that day and the outcomes of those games will decide not only the bowl games, but also the BCS National Championship game. College football is one of the most watched sports in the U.S. and the BCS National Championship along with many other of the major bowls are certainly extremely popular events. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish do not play a conference championship game, so they finished their regular..

One of our clients, Shalimar Elementary School, provides a program through their physical education department that encourages running/walking during P.E. The program is called Miler Club. During select P.E. days, the kids have the opportunity to run as many laps as possible and earn...

College basketball opening weekend has come and gone and the pre-season AP polls were relatively unchanged from the pre-season polls. This exciting time for college sports is a time to take advantage of the high energy and promote your business through the use of basketball spirit items. In addition school spirit items are great items for fundraising for the team.

The fans of different types of sports often go through ordeals to watch games in person proportional to the trials that their favorite athletes go through. Baseball players expend the least amount of effort, and their fans get to enjoy a relaxing day at the park in the summer. Basketball players sweat indoors in a claustrophobic arena that they share in close proximity with their supporters. Hockey players feel the chill of the ice, so naturally hockey enthusiasts have to bundle up for games.

A spirit item is a product that allows people to show enthusiasm for a particular sports team or school, while a promotional product is an item that helps a company or organization to market itself. These two devices can often intersect, such as when sports teams use promotional products to increase awareness of themselves. However, never before have the two so delightfully merged as when the stress reliever was invented.

The elite group of sports that are widely popular in the United States – baseball, basketball, football and hockey – will never want for fans, donations or enthusiasm. It will take quite some time for people to stop loving the action of the gridiron, craving the intensity of three-point shots, yearning for the tradition of a diamond or hoping to see a fight break out on the ice.

Most spirit items help fans show their enthusiasm for a certain group of athletes. Noisemakers, custom t-shirts and banners are the traditional weapons of choice for the most devout of supporters, but these items are not always the best choices for showing a team that you have a great deal invested in their success. Sometimes, all it takes is

The best promotional products are ones that are tremendously useful to customers. Promotional pens, personalized calendars and spirit items certainly have their place in many consumers’ lives, but for energetic and health-conscious people, nothing could be better than a device that helps

People spend the entire winter looking forward to summer for a number of reasons. Some love nothing more than to bake all day in the sun at the beach, while others are excited about the summer sports that they get to partake in. However, there is a large group of people for whom the entire season is one 

The biggest fans of every sport would like nothing more than to emulate their heroes on the field. Avid baseball watchers wish that they could hit home runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, while basketball fanatics must surely dream about nailing a three-point shot at the buzzer to win the game. There aren’t any magic pills or virtual reality devices that can 

An excellent promotional product or spirit item is a personalized mug, which will be lovingly used each morning to enjoy a hot cup of coffee, tea, cocoa or other beloved beverage. The power of a branded mug is significant and many organizations have found success by 

Die-hard sports fans have three enemies – the opposing team, the referees and the opposing fans. In the heat of the moment, whether at home in front of the TV or at the stadium, acts of horrible violence are easy to imagine happening to those three groups of people. Of course, we live in a civilized society that rejects the use of violence to resolve conflicts. Try telling 

The idea to have professional cheerleaders who excite the crowd and help them to find their enthusiasm is a good one, but it has certain limitations. While cheerleaders can accomplish impressive feats of acrobatics and have memorized some very interesting cheers, at the end of the day

An important attribute of any successful promotional product is its versatility. Items that have a single use that they're designed for can be effectively targeted to certain groups of people, but when a company, sports team, non-profit organization or university wishes to

Fall is almost upon us and that means that kids everywhere will be returning to school. As classes begin, so too do sports practices and intramural games. The level of competition that children are capable of can differ from to kid, but one thing that's for certain is that some of the most enthusiastic fans raise the competitive stakes between teams.  One way to 

There are many things that go hand-in-hand with sports and sports fans. Besides watching their favorite teams cream their bitter rivals, sports enthusiasts often enjoy snack food and television. However, no product may be as inextricably linked to enjoyment of team sports as a taste for American lager is. That's why pilsner glasses are

There are plenty of people who participate in sports purely because of how much they actually love to play the game itself. While this description applies to quite a few fans, there are some who step into the

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words – so how many can the right frame add to that total? When branded by a sports team, university or other organization, it can be quite a lot. Promotional picture frames are

Of all the major sports in America, baseball is truly a marathon. The professional season lasts for 162 games, in addition to the playoffs and exhibitions. As a result, fans of our national pastime have quite a lot of pitches, swings and throws to look forward to throughout the year. We've just passed the

Besides the stadium itself, there are few places as appropriate as a bar to watch a sporting event. Incidentally, smart bar owners and managers should consider decking out their establishments with spirit items and promotional products that

In the summer, there's no place that's better to find relaxed and comfortable people than at the beach. Free from invasive advertising and annoying commercials, only the most subtle forms of promotion are effective by the shore. Consider using spirit items and promotional products that are

Sports enthusiasts have a lot of options when it comes to making noise with spirit items. Thundersticks and clappers make a great big din, but it doesn't convey a specific message. The rumble that comes from the stands can intimidate other teams, but sometimes it's important to

A lot of the appeal of promotional products comes from the fact that they aren't costly and can be bought in large numbers. This is an effective strategy to follow, but every once in a while, it can be a good idea to invest in some high-quality products that can be given away as

Lanyards are very simple items. In essence, they're just pieces of canvas, leather or rope that make holding and grabbing small items easier. However, there are quite a few times when this is just what folks need, so it's no wonder that they make excellent spirit items and

There are few occasions when sports fans are more passionate about their favorite team than at a party. After a couple drinks, many supporters turn up the volume on their rhetoric and let fans of bitter rivals have it with both barrels. However, with properly branded glasses

Now that summer has arrived, anyone who waited until now to buy an air conditioner is kicking themselves. It would have been so much cheaper if they had bought it in the winter! The same is true for spirit items – if you wait until the snow begins to fall, all the

Once upon a time, wearing a baseball cap meant something. First, it meant that you played baseball. Soon, it was for fans of baseball or people who needed the sun kept out of their eyes when they watched a baseball 

The passion that spirit items are intended to stir up inside basketball, baseball and football fans is a powerful tool that unites sports enthusiasts and intimidates visiting teams. This is all done in the name of adding to the fun of the game, but such powerful emotions can also be harnessed by businesses. The only difference is

Picture the following scenario – it's 1920 and the world is in black and white. You've gone to a baseball match between teams that don't wear mitts and have no helmets for when they bat. Men are dressed in