Surge Culture Blog

Dec28

The Next: Delectable Collectible

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They’re coming.

We can’t stop them.

Standing in the shadow of our increasingly popular line of Squeezie’s Surge shirts they linger, grasping at any spotlight they can catch! They’re the new Squeezie’s, and they’re yearning to be the Next Top Squeezie!

But who will win? That’s the colossal question that these Squeezie’s face! The answer will come, soon enough. We’re still trying to get Ryan Seacrest for the unveiling, but he’s kind of busy. Something about being famous…I don’t know.

Stay locked for more information regarding the fate of these malleable miniatures!

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Dec22

The First Annual Surgie Awards Kickoff!

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‘Twas the night before the 22nd, and all throughout Surge,

About 20 people were stirring, as laughter emerged,

From out of their mouths, loud and obnoxious,

As Devon laughed so hard, he nearly became unconscious.

The awards were pronounced, and all were filled with glee,

As each was awarded their very first Surgie.

Last night we hosted our very first Surgie awards ceremony, and, needless to say, it was a rockin’ evening! We laughed, we cried, we gave awful acceptance speeches, all in good fun! Many nominations were written for each employee, (such honorable mentions were the “Best Mennonite Ninja Assassin” Award and the “What’s That Bunny Thing With the Horns Called?” Award), but only one nomination for each employee rose to the top! The winners of this years Surgie Awards are:

“Most Nonchalant Order-Sneaker” Award – Matt

“I Laughed So Hard I Pooped A Little Bit” Award – Devon

“Most Likely To Mess Up Right Before a Review” Award – Katie

“Biggest Risk to Worker’s Comp” Award – Bryan

“Most Likely to Scream When a Customer is Up Front” Award – Clark

“Queen of ‘Pop’” Award – Jennifer

“Best Adjectives” Award – Jered

“Most Likely to Break Out in Song” Award – Clay

“Most Likely to Count an Order Three Times” Award – Kristin

“Smiley-Pete” Award – Josh

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Ain’t it purty?

Each employee gave a heartfelt, tear-jerking acceptance speech after each recognition. Actually…most just sat back down. But, they were smiling! And that’s what’s important!

So thank you all, for a great year! We look forward to bringing in 2010!

Keep checking back for more updates on our crazy-cool lives here at Surge!

You guys are awesome!

Dec14

And the winner is…

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…DUM DA DAAAAH!

Shirt Numero Uno (number one, for those who don’t speak/read spanish)!

Let’s give a round of applause for Shirt Number One for winning the contest!

If the shirt could talk, it would say, through misty eyes, something like, “Oh my goodness! Thank you!” [Long pause and waving hand in front of its face like it was going to cry] “I’d like to thank Jered for designing me in all of my coolness, and I’d like to thank my fans, all of you who voted for me this year! It just means so much to me! I’d also like to thank Tom Hanks, who taught me everything I know about being on the big screen!”

But…it can’t talk…because it’s a shirt.

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the winners of the new Surge Promotions Promo Shirt!

1. Sara Worth 6. Rob Glessner

2. Jerry Thacker 7. Holly Tussey

3. Karen Parrish 8. Cynthia Holbrook

4. Joe Wood 9. Scott Soard

5. Jessie Russel 10. Teresa Long

Let’s give another round of applause to our winners (pretty much just keep clapping until we tell you to stop)!

We’d like to thank all of you for voting for your favorite shirts! Remember, you’re all winners!

(You can stop clapping, now)!

Dec8

Inside Every Box…

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Remember when you used to buy the lame-o, taste-like-cardboard cereal because it had the rad toy inside? Sure you do. There were many times when I got in trouble for dumping half of the box out so that I could retrieve what would become about 3 1/2 minutes of play time. Then I would get bored and throw it away.

Well, we have a similar thing for our customers…only ours are so much cooler, words cannot even contain the awesomeness!

So, instead of attempting to explain how flippin’ sweet they are, I’m going to leave a large blank so that you can pause and ponder the epicness of our gift!

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Excited? You should be. So what are these marvelous little knicknacks of joy? Squeezies stress relievers! They’re both fun, and practical (I now feel as though I’m writing an infommercial)! We know how crazy life can be, and so we decided to help out our customers by giving them something to squeeze the living daylights out of!

Every single box of shirts receives a squeezie. Note that we said that each box receives a squeezie, not just each order! So, if you order 300 shirts you get around 4 or 5 squeezies, depending on the shirt sizes. We can only fit so many shirts in each box. And we know what you’re thinking. No, we can’t pack your order with only 3 shirts per box to get maximum squeezage.

So, if you’re really stressed, you should buy more shirts, so that you can get more squeezies! Unlike that nasty cardboard cereal with the junky prizes, our gifts are awesome, and our shirts don’t stink. I still wouldn’t recommend eating them.

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Dec3

Introducing…the First Annual Surgie Awards!

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Our employees are awesome. They’re hardworking, fun, folks who deserve a little recognition every once in a while–but not too often So, in order to do this we’ve decided to have our first annual Surgie Awards ceremony!

Here’s what ’s going to happen…

Nominations will be created during the next few weeks, with each of us writing down ridiculous/funny (or ridiculously funny) awards for one another. Then, on December 21st we will have our mega-awesome awards ceremony, where the top nominations (chosen by Devon and Matt) will be awarded to each employee! We’ve already begun nominating up a storm, so Matt and Devon have a lot of reading to do!

If you’ve seen the Dundie epidode of The Office, you know how this thing will play out , only our ceremony will be…Surgier (I think I just made up a new word). We’re even going to have trophies, with the award title engraved on the front! How sweet is that?!

Needless to say, we’re pretty excited about this, and we look forward to sharing the results with you!

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Dec2

Win a Free T-Shirt!

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Did we get your attention? Well we don’t lie! You read correctly; we’re having a contest of sorts where you can be entered to win a free T-Shirt!

Here’s how it works…

We have a condundrum. We are looking to create a new promo shirt for ourselves, and our graphic artist, Jered, has created six super-sweet designs, and we can’t narrow it down to which one we want! So, we place the decision in your hands! That’s right! You get to vote on which shirt design you like the best! On Friday, December 11th we will tally the votes and see which design wins it all. We will then print that design for our next promo shirt!

We will randomly select ten winners out of those who voted using extremely complicated methods of theoretical statistics. Basically, we’ll draw the names out of a hat.

Those ten winners will receive a free T-Shirt, courtesy of Surge Promotions!

You may be asking, “how in the world do I vote?” Well all you have to is leave a comment on this blog with your name (first and last) and the number of which T-Shirt design you want to win! You must put your first and last name in order to be placed in the drawing (because we won’t know who you are)!

So get to votin’ friends!

To see each design side-by-side in fuller detail, click the image above!

And to see each shirt on it’s own, click the following links!

Shirt 1 Shirt 2
Shirt 3 Shirt 4
Shirt 5 Shirt 6

Nov30

We got tired of our Thanksgiving leftovers…

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…yes we still have some. Don’t judge us! We love turkey! Anyway, like I was saying, we got tired of our leftovers, so we decided to buy some Pop-Tarts. Here’s how to enjoy a box of Pop-Tarts…the Surge way!

Stay locked on this blog as we’ll be having regular updates, including news, videos, photos, and any other noteworthy notes that we feel like sharing!

Also, if you didn’t know, we’re on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, so follow, add, and subscribe to our pages and we’ll be your friend forever! Okay…we’ll be your BFF anyway, but it’d be sweet if we saw you in the cyber world, too!

Here are some link so that you can find us online!

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Nov17

Smellin’ that fresh Richmond air!

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Surge loves this planet.

So, to show our love we took a trip to the Richmond-Madison Recycling Center to deposit some of our recyclables! While we were there, we decided to test our athletic prowess, to much disappointment. Watch the video to witness our story!

Nov6

Break out the pointy hats, we’ve had a birthday! And we got ourselves a new press (pointy hats still apply).

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We here at Surge love birthdays…a lot! Actually, we love cake, and birthday’s are associated with cake, so there you go.

Centuries ago, on November 8th, sweet baby Devon Price was born in a bassinet! Years later, we celebrated this momentous occasion with some delectable brownies, a large tv, and a whole lotta hooplah! No one knows for sure, but we project his age to be somewhere between 27 and 68, give or take a few years! When asked directly his approximate age, he answered, “nunya.” I still don’t know what it means – it must be an Eastern Kentucky thing.

I know what some of you are thinking, “what’d he get?” Well, friends, think no more. Devon scored a sweet 42″ flatscreen tv from his family and Matt. Matt purchased 41.347 inches of said television, while his family bought the remaining, very expensive, 0.653 inches (it all balanced out in the end)!

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An Awesome New Toy For Us to Play With!

In other, rather unrelated news, we’ve purchased a new press! So what’s the big deal? Well, first of all, it’s shiny…and huge…and blue! Actually this is great news for you (and for us) as it’s an automatic screen-printing press, which means that we can produce a significantly greater amount of t-shirts per hour. This allows for us to get our shirts printed and shipped to you more quickly and efficiently! To say that we’re excited about it would be a vast understatement…we’re flippin’ ecstatic!

To see it in action, watch the video below:

Aug1

Ribbons + Scissors + A Whole Lot Of Friends = Awesomeness

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On Friday, June 30th, magic happened.

Okay, so it wasn’t literally “magic,” but it was still a huge day for us, as we celebrated moving into our new facility with a traditional Ribbon Cutting ceremony, sponsored by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce! We began the festivities around 11:30 AM, and had about 200 of our friends come out to celebrate alongside us (as well as to dine on some fine hamburgers and hot dogs–what outing is complete without food, right)? As people socialized, they signed their names and “good luck” messages on our Testimonial Banner, and printed their own shirts (with supervision, of course). We had two different designs and colors of t-shirts (gray and orange) that our guests could choose from, and we let them go to town. We walked them through the process, step-by-step, and let them set, turn, and print on our manual press (a little effort never hurt anyone)! All enjoyed the fruits of their labor, as they got to keep their self-produced work of t-shirt art.

In terms of space, we’ve acquired a significant upgrade, as we’ve moved from having only 1500 sq. ft. to 2700! That’s a 80% increase! Is it lame that I just figured that out? Oh well…

Not only do we have significantly more room, but we’re also in a much better, more convenient location! Our new location is at 307 Jason Drive, right behind Porter Paints.

They say that a picture paints a thousand words. Now I don’t know who “they” are, but I think they’re right, so here’s some pictures recapping the day:

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