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Making an Impact on #GivingTuesday

December 2, 2020

Every year, the team at Magellan Promotions gets involved with Giving Tuesday by donating to causes and charities that we find important. In addition to the individual donations, the company’s generous corporate match provided $655 more in donations! Even though this year was a challenging one for so many, we are happy we could continue this tradition. Here’s a look at where we donated and why we support these great organizations. Project Bubaloo Supported by Alyssa This year, I’m donating to our friends at Project Bubaloo. Project Bubaloo is a

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A New, Easier Way to Navigate Stickers

November 18, 2020

When it comes to stickers, navigating countless options for styles, sizes, quality and customizations can be a bit complicated. That’s precisely why Magellan Promotions is excited to announce Magellan Stickers, a dedicated website and store designed to make finding the perfect combinations for sticker promotions simple, straightforward and comprehensive. MagellanStickers.com delivers a customer-focused and transparent experience for purchasing sticker promotions. The site showcases our most popular products and options, along with customizations to make your marketing projects truly unique. For our flagship product, the custom sticker sheet, it’s easy to

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Promotional Products Influence the College Search

June 4, 2020

Now is a crucial time for colleges to evaluate their marketing strategies as they continue to recruit and enroll students amid extreme competition. We know that using imprinted promotional products to connect with prospective college students is highly successful. In order to continue providing the best recommendations, we conducted first-of-its-kind research to measure how promotional products are valued by students. By partnering with Advantage Research, we were able to analyze insights from 400 currently-enrolled first-year and sophomore students, who represent 298 public and private schools in 45 states. Our research

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In Response to COVID-19

May 15, 2020

We are actively monitoring the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on our industry to remain agile as we continue to serve our clients. We are continuing to fulfill projects that come our way. More product suppliers have restarted production and we are monitoring the performance of the others. Magellan Promotions has long-standing relationships with production partners across the United States which allows us to continue sourcing products from a vast network. Clients continue to seek product solutions in response to COVID-19. We are providing an active list of face masks, face

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Be True to Your Mission and Core Values

April 24, 2020

Written by Michael Wolaver, Captain of Magellan Promotions These past several weeks have been trying for businesses and organizations in varying ways.  At my promotional product company, Magellan Promotions, we moved all employees to being remote, dealt with disruptions in our supply chain, and had orders cancelled. We continue to adapt our practices despite a significant slowdown in business, and are monitoring the tremendous financial impact COVID-19 is having on our core customer base.  While other businesses have it way worse off than ours, we have a number of challenges

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Postage Permits

We are happy to mail using a client’s USPS non-profit number. Here are a few best practices for this to go smoothly. Let our team know up front on the project so we can make sure to get the information we need right away. 

While our mail house does prefer to use their permit number for the mailing, we can use the client’s permit, If using their permit number, ensure there is enough postage to cover the mailing.

The information we need to in order to use a client’s nonprofit number includes the following:

  • CRID (customer registration ID)
  • Non-Profit Authorization Number (with USPS, not their nonprofit number for the university)
  • Non-profit indicia
  • Return address that is on file with USPS for the non-profit authorization number
  • Permit number

Formatting the Mailing List

Our account team will advise on specific requirements for your project’s mailing list.  We generally recommend these best practices to format the mailing list:
  • Send your data in a spreadsheet, saving it in the comma-separated values (CSV) format
  • International addresses must be separated from domestic addresses
  • Domestic addresses should at least contain data fields for “first name”, “last name”, “address 1”, “address 2”, “city”, “state” and “ZIP code”