It’s March 1st and for many imprinting businesses March signals the start of busy season. It certainly does here at Stahls’. In fact, we are happy to report that we have seen in increase in NEW customers in February. It might be due to the fact that we have updated our website to accommodate Guest [...]

Yes, those are boat docks in the background and this is how this whole thing got started. We were doing some repairs to the docks, much easier when you have solid ice to stand on, and we had some leftover wood we needed to get rid of. A good friend said that it’s no problem [...]

It seems I mistakenly attributed comments to the wrong person in one of my last postings, so my apologies to Sue Burgess and Cyndi Mills for the mix up.  I have corrected the blog posting and given credit where credit is due! Here are a few more comments on the state of the industry from [...]

Got this in my inbox from Lee Wayne who is in the promotional products industry and I thought it made some good food for thought for those of you who haven’t jump started your sales for 2010 yet. Maybe this article will give you the motivation, by making the sales process into a game of [...]

How Josh got the folks at Hotronix (he must have connections) to custom decorate a heat press for him, is his secret. What’s no secret is that your heat press can be your best friend this busy season, especially if you are planning on printing a lot of garments. More lettering and number application tips [...]

If you read some of our predictions for 2010 from various GroupeSTAHL people, you might be wondering how accurate they really were. Well, we’re only into February, but we have received some valuable feedback from customer service reps at Stahls’ ID Direct as to what is going on out there. On average our reps have [...]

For those of you have been experiencing bad weather lately– we have had our share here in Michigan recently– maybe this will bring a chuckle to your day.  It did for me and thought I would share.
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Hang In There–Ducks On Ice

The commercials shown during the Super Bowl didn’t exactly blow me away yesterday, sometimes I think companies out there are trying too hard to be funny. And there were way too many people not wearing pants. Since commercials seem to be the topic of the day the day after the Super Bowl, I thought I [...]

Heinz Ketchup introduced their new ketchup packets this week, a new improved design that has been a long time coming in response to customer complaints. From a story I just read online, they introduced the old packets that squirt and are impossible to open back in 1968. Supposedly the complaints started coming in in 1969, [...]

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks that the idea of promoting the service of adding lettering to existing or pre-printed garments is a good idea. Josh Ellsworth mentioned that he laughed when he read my blog post this morning about the MI Elite Volleyball club because his already submitted article for the [...]