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.
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 [...]
Changing the World One Lawn (and T-shirt) at a Time
A man, a lawn, and a t-shirt design are working on changing the world. On a fateful day in 2015, Alabama A&M Computer Science major Rodney Smith Jr. was running late for class when he drove past an elderly man struggling to mow his lawn. Seeing how difficult it was for the man to get the job done, Rodney put all thoughts of school [...]
8 Mother’s Day Shirts That Tell It Like It Is
Moms, it’s time to celebrate you. Another year of hand holding, tear drying, clothes washing, and bedtime story reading is coming to an end. I know! Where did the time go? Gretchen Rubin wasn’t kidding when she said, “The days are long but the years are short.” And nobody knows that better than moms. Another almost as wise saying (that [...]
Do Androids Dream of Custom Shirts?
Since 1999, robots have been systematically coming to life at a suburban Maryland high school. This group of students and their mentors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring call themselves FRC Team 449: The Blair Robot Project and are dedicated to learning engineering through building robots and competing with other robotics [...]