Category: Helpful Resources

  • Give Back This Season: Writing Holiday Cards for Charity

    Give Back This Season: Writing Holiday Cards for Charity

    You’ve shared your signature gingerbread cookies with your co-workers and helped the neighbors put up miles of twinkling holiday lights. If you want to keep the good cheer going, grab your extra greeting cards and create more smiles. Writing a few holiday cards for charity will remind both you and the recipient of the true…

  • Don’t Battle the Crowds: 4 Last-Minute Holiday Gifts You Can Buy Online

    Don’t Battle the Crowds: 4 Last-Minute Holiday Gifts You Can Buy Online

    The holidays can come quicker than expected, often leaving us with the need to scramble for last-minute holiday gifts. The good news is you don’t have to battle the crowds while you’re shopping. In fact, you don’t have to leave the couch at all! You can instead head to your computer or smartphone and pick…

  • 8 Best Holiday Gifts for Your Boss

    8 Best Holiday Gifts for Your Boss

    No matter where you work, you likely know the value of a boss who works hard and always looks out for their team. If you’re fortunate enough to have a leader that you’re proud to work with, then why not celebrate how awesome they are with one of these holiday gifts for your boss? Whether…

  • 4 Easy Ways to Avoid Holiday Stress

    4 Easy Ways to Avoid Holiday Stress

    Holiday cheer quickly fades when you’re bumping elbows with tense shoppers at understaffed stores, creating dinner party plans to meet five different dietary needs, and finishing up travel plans on a small budget. Fortunately, holiday stress doesn’t have to ruin the season. You can avoid holiday stress by keeping a positive mindset, taking a few…

  • 7 Funny Office Christmas Card Ideas Even Your Boss Will Love

    7 Funny Office Christmas Card Ideas Even Your Boss Will Love

    You could sit around making up holiday rhymes for your office card until the reindeer came home, but the true impact of a Christmas card often comes from the picture. A funny photo can transform what could be another ho-hum holiday card into a sensational greeting that keeps recipients laughing. Check out seven funny office…

  • How to Find the Perfect Holiday Greeting Card for Anyone [Infographic]

    How to Find the Perfect Holiday Greeting Card for Anyone [Infographic]

    Are you struggling to find holiday greeting cards for everyone in your life? When shopping for holiday cards for family, friends, coworkers, or valued customers, you want to send them a card that suits their personality. Your grandma may not appreciate a card with whimsical cartoons like your best friend would, and you wouldn’t want…

  • 6 Cool Office Decor Ideas to Make Your Workspace Instagrammable

    6 Cool Office Decor Ideas to Make Your Workspace Instagrammable

    Your workspace is a direct reflection of you. It is vibrant, exciting, and welcoming? Or, is your space bland and blah? If you find yourself snapping tons of selfies at work for Instagram, pencil in a mini cubicle makeover using our cool office ideas so you can show the world more about you. After all,…

  • #ThrowbackThursday: The 5 Best 90s School Supplies

    #ThrowbackThursday: The 5 Best 90s School Supplies

    As most kids who grew up in the 90s know, school supply shopping wasn’t just throwing random supplies into a cart and calling it a day. Instead, choosing supplies was a feat that required finding the coolest binders, the best pens and pencils, and all the latest gadgets to show off your style. To pay…

  • 9 Quotes About Stationery Every Writer Will Love

    9 Quotes About Stationery Every Writer Will Love

    Humans require basic necessities to survive. These include food, water, shelter – and, for some, stationery. If you’re the type who lists stationery as one of your must-haves, you’re not alone. We found a handful of notable folks who have felt the same way, as evidenced in this collection of stationery quotes. What Stationery Can…

  • Quotes for National Parents’ Day

    Quotes for National Parents’ Day

    While we celebrate our moms in May and honor our dads in June, we can give them both the kudos they deserve on National Parents’ Day in July. Celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July, National Parents’ Day may not be as well-known as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but it’s just as important. It’s…

  • 8 Fun Ways to Improve Employee Engagement

    8 Fun Ways to Improve Employee Engagement

    Is the typical workday at your office filled with laughter, chatter, and lots of work completed with loads of enthusiasm? If your answer is no, you may want to work on boosting employee engagement. Here are eight fun and easy ways to improve employee engagement and make your staff excited to come into work every…

  • 7 Office Bonding Activities – That Aren’t Lame

    7 Office Bonding Activities – That Aren’t Lame

    Professional development workshops complete with trust falls and scavenger hunts are so 1999. If you want your team to come together without rolling their eyes at your outdated team building ideas, plan activities that are both engaging and exciting. We’re here to help you think outside the box. 1. Go zip lining. It’s easy to…

  • Who Knew? Fun Facts About Paper of the Past

    Who Knew? Fun Facts About Paper of the Past

    Since the beginning of time, mankind has struggled to find the perfect way to express himself. Once spoken language was mastered, the struggle to put those words on something permanent began. Artisans throughout history used everything from clay and papyrus to wood and slate in the search for a permanent, but portable means of communicating…

  • Staying in Touch With Your Pen Pal over the Summer

    Staying in Touch With Your Pen Pal over the Summer

    Just because the school year has ended doesn’t mean you have to lose touch with your buddies. You can stay in touch with your in-person friends by transforming them into penpal friends.  While pen pals aren’t as common as they once were, they remain a terrific way to maintain a strong and solid connection through…

  • Things Only Stationery Lovers Will Understand

    Things Only Stationery Lovers Will Understand

    Some people collect shoes. Others collect statues. And then there’s a special breed of folks who can’t help but collect stationery. We are the letter writers. The poets. The romantics. The people who preserve the art of hand-written correspondence. We are, indeed, the stationery lovers. If you happen to fall into the stationery lovers category,…

  • Certificate Wording for Sports and Athletic Completion

    Certificate Wording for Sports and Athletic Completion

    From increased endurance to improved strength, sports and athletic activities provide a plethora of benefits to participants. Now, you can add one more perk by presenting certificates for successful completion of sports and athletic endeavors. Fitness certificates can apply to a number of scenarios for a job well done. Examples can include: Students completing a training…

  • Certificate Wording for Tech Classes

    Certificate Wording for Tech Classes

    High-tech efforts deserve high levels of recognition, and you can provide that to every member of your class with a professional certificate. You have various options for the type of certificates to award, whether they’re for specific tech certifications, completion of training or your course, professional achievement, or for overall excellence. You’re also free to…

  • Enter to Win PaperDirect’s Recognition Giveaway!

    Enter to Win PaperDirect’s Recognition Giveaway!

    It’s time to recognize your employees with PaperDirect’s Recognition Giveaway! Head over to our Facebook page where you can enter our most recent giveaway and earn $200 in product plus $25 in design services. It’s finally time to start a recognition program at your place of work. We’re making it easy! Enter here Giveaway Details Prizes– Two winners…

  • Why Meditation at Work is Beneficial

    Why Meditation at Work is Beneficial

    No matter which industry you’re in, every productive office has the same kind of vibe. It’s a group of talented professionals (and part-time oddballs) who are coming together to get a lot of work done in as little time as possible. Any motivated office can be a breeding ground for stress, it’s only natural. However,…

  • How to Host a Chili or Crock Pot Cook-off at Work

    How to Host a Chili or Crock Pot Cook-off at Work

    Hosting a chili or crock pot cookoff is a simple and easy way to get the office to mingle during lunch. Also, food! Here are some quick tips and an email template that you can use during your office’s next cook-off challenge. Tips Email Twice – People forget. Make sure you let your employees know…