Salty Customs

Welcome to Saltycustoms. Where we understand that delivering useful and meaningful products should be a joy. The traditional way of sourcing for a reliable printing company for customised corporate T-shirts and merchandise can be frustrating and time-consuming.

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your company merch is saying more than you think

remember when "corporate merch" = a pen, a tote bag, zero expectations? that era's over (or at least, it should be)

freebies ≠ connection

when merch gets picked JUST to fill a giveaway table or hit a budget number, it ends up generic + forgettable + sometimes actively bad for your brand (a pen that stops working after one use is a whole message, even if you didn't mean to send it). the real question before ordering anything: "would someone actually be glad to own this?"

employees notice this stuff more than you'd think

a good onboarding kit = "you joined something intentional" energy

a nice jacket at a 5-year milestone = "we actually noticed your tenure"

you cannot replicate that with a slack message or a town hall. physical stuff just hits different

and clients definitely remember it

nobody remembers the logo. they remember the FEELING  considered, valued, a lil surprised. a good notebook on someone's desk for a year > a hundred sales emails

the actual shift happening

brands doing this well stopped treating marketing merch / client gifts / employee swag as 3 separate budgets. it's one system now, one identity, one quality bar  tied to real moments (onboarding, milestones, renewals) instead of generic mass giveaways

full article → Beyond Freebies

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ok let's talk about corporate merch because it's way more complicated than it looks

everyone thinks it's: pick logo → pick shirt → order → done. narrator: it is not that simple

the actual challenge isn't the product

corporate apparel usually ties into bigger stuff  employee engagement, events, recruitment, brand building. a good partner asks about THAT before showing you a catalogue

questions > catalogues

who's wearing it, where, what's the actual goal (visibility? culture? gifting?)  These shape literally everything: decoration, materials, fit, packaging. This is "branding mindset" vs "just take my order" energy

quality control is where things go wrong

sample looks great → production run doesn't match it

colours shift between batches

sizing gets unreliable

timelines slip

and when your team/clients get the merch, they associate ALL of that with your company, not the random vendor behind it. real partners catch this before shipping, with actual approval checkpoints

flexibility matters too

order sizes change, events move, last minute add-ons happen  the partners worth keeping are the ones who roll with it without dropping quality

one partner > five vendors

end-to-end ownership (design + sourcing + production + packaging + delivery, all one team) = way less coordination headache and way more predictable results for busy marketing/HR/procurement teams

full article → Choosing the Right Custom Apparel Partner

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Custom Corporate Merchandise & Gifts | Saltycustoms

Saltycustoms is a leading corporate merchandise and custom gift supplier in Malaysia & Singapore, offering end-to-end design, production, an

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Print on Demand in Malaysia – The Complete 2026 Guide

 Three very different people search for print on demand in Malaysia. There is the startup founder who needs 15 branded hoodies for her team but cannot justify a 100-unit minimum order. There is the marketing manager running a consumer campaign who wants every participant to receive a personalised item without holding a warehouse of stock. And there is the small business owner or creator who has a design they want to test before committing to bulk production.

All three are looking for the same thing: custom merchandise without the financial exposure of forecasting demand in advance. Print on demand in Malaysia makes that possible with no minimum order quantities, no inventory risk, and the ability to have a single unit manufactured and shipped from a design you uploaded an hour ago. This guide explains exactly how it works, what it costs, when it is the right choice, and when it is not......Read more