January 22, 2026

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Custom Notepads

Custom Coloring Notepads Still Trending For Businesses

Brands are taking notice of the impact coloring notepads have. Two years after adult coloring became a trend, big brands are designing branded coloring pages. As our society becomes more and more busy, so does our stress level. Coloring notepads are a great stress reliever that can be done any where any time. When you are relaxed and focused, a brand’s message on a custom notepad is a positive experience. (more…)

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Ring in the New Year

The holiday season is a period of giving and reflection on the previous months—and a view toward the year ahead. For small business owners, it’s also a time for optimism, as the holiday shopping season is often one of their most profitable periods. (more…)

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Custom Printed Notepad Company, Captain Notepad, Releases Year In Review

Captain Notepad reviews 2016, including new products and the company’s growth.

Captain Notepad (www.captainnotepad.com), a producer of image personalized calendars, custom notepads, magnetic notepads, and other promotional items, today released its annual Year in Review for 2016. Captain Notepad has continued to see significant year-over-year growth. Highlights this year include new product designs for promotional calendars, new equipment, and increased sales. (more…)

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New Year, New Marketing Strategy part 2

Let’s not forget about your once well-organized marketing strategy. As we discussed in our last blog, Boost Your Business In the New Year, we looked at different ways to clean up your business to help bring in the New Year on a clean slate. As we continue to look at your business strategies, marketing should be at the top of your list. Most people come across new marketing ideas and try to adopt it and add it to your existing approach. This can leave your marketing strategy jumbled without any clear vision. Not to mention a lot of wasted time, money, and energy. Strategies and tactics tend to accumulate and linger even when they may not be working as well as you’d like. To improve your marketing, you’ll need to clean out some old ways of working, continue reading to see how you can clean up your business and marketing and get ready to take advantage of the New Year to grow your business. (more…)

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Boost Your Business In the New Year part 1

Part one in our two part series of How to Boost Your Business in the New Year. It’s officially December and if you are anything like the hundreds of small businesses out there, you are thinking about how you can wrap up your end on a high note and how to better prepare your company for the New Year to come. Here’s a list of what you can do to help your small business now as well as what you can do throughout the year to it’s not a looming task at the end of each year. (more…)

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The Coloring Book Craze

There’s a little nostalgia in the latest craze of coloring. Every grown up has an inner child that wants to have fun and play, and adult coloring books do just that. Whether shopping online or visiting your favorite book store, coloring books are everywhere. Why are these coloring books so popular? Professional behavioral economists point to five reasons why adult coloring books are trending. First, coloring books are fun! Second, it reminds us of our childhood. Who doesn’t remember coloring your favorite picture and taking pride in your work? Third, it’s relaxing. Even just coloring on a simple notepad, can relax anyone. Fourth, you get to be creative without having any drawing skills. (more…)

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Why Promotional Items Work For Your Business

Today’s consumers are more savvy than other, demanding more personalized experience in everything they see and touch. What better way to connect with consumers than with promotional products. Mobile, highly-targeted and inexpensive, promotional products are the only advertising medium capable of engaging all five senses. Adding your message to a tangible product turns an ordinary message into a marketing experience people can see, touch, hear, smell and even taste. In 2011, advertisers spent more than $18 billion in promotional items. Promotional items produce valuable referrals from satisfied customers. A survey conducted by a local university indicated accompanying a request for referrals with an offer of a promotional product incentive drew as many as 500% more referrals as an appeal letter alone. Can’t ask for better results than that. (more…)

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Why do we need promotional items?

Do promotional items really work? In this article we look at why they work for you and what may interest your potential clients.

Most research reveals that “freebies” of any kind can have a huge effect on people in any context. I know you’re thinking to yourself that there are so many promotional items out there, what difference would mine make? I’m here to tell you that choosing the right promotional items, such as something people use daily like customized notepads, make a great way to connect to your clients. Custom promotional items are more than just slapping your logo on a pen or notepad. It’s taking the time to pay attention to the details that your customers will remember you by. Using something like our die cut shaped sticky notes, is a great way to be unique. There are so many shape options out there, that we can match almost any business with a customized die cut sticky note. (more…)

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Notebooks

Finding Joy In A Paper Notebook

Never underestimate the power of a paper notebook. Like our customized notepads, notebooks serve a needed purpose. There are several types of notebooks out there, how do you know which one is right for you? From the creative type to the engineer, notebooks are a great way to keep ideas fresh in your mind without having to pull out a clunky laptop or tablet. (more…)

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