{"id":7780,"date":"2016-05-31T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:08:18","slug":"custom-sock-shop-spotlight-the-hash-house-harriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/custom-sock-posts\/custom-sock-shop-spotlight-the-hash-house-harriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Sock Shop Spotlight: the Hash House Harriers"},"content":{"rendered":"

For May\u2019s customer of the month, we are highlighting one of our most enthusiastic as well as unusual customers: the Hash House Harriers<\/a>, a self-proclaimed drinking club with a running problem. This international group organizes non-competitive runs a.k.a \u201chashes\u201d where participants get together to do some off the road trail running.<\/p>\n

We caught up with Megan Stafford of the SMUTTy Crabs from Southern Maryland to learn more about her group and how they use CCS socks as a part of their groups brand.<\/p>\n

How are the Hashers using Custom Sock Shop (CSS) socks to help your group make an impact?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Typically, all our runs take us off the beaten path. We wear our socks while we run and walk off trails<\/a> – usually through thorns, branches, tree, streams etc.<\/p>\n

Our socks help us identify each other as we have specific color combos that represent each of our groups. For example, the SMUTTy Crabs are located in Southern Maryland; therefore, we use the colors of the Maryland state flag (yellow-gold, red, white, and black) along with royal blue since we have blue crabs and the Chesapeake Bay nearby.<\/p>\n

How do CSS socks fit into your marketing efforts?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CSS socks fit into our marketing efforts as individuals, as well as a group. Our socks can be used to showcase that a person is from a certain group, or that a group has a unique item someone else might wish to have, or that a person has visited the Hash \u201ckennel\u201d of an area and has a souvenir to show for it. They also help us recruit hashers from other places to enjoy hashing with another group (known as Travel Hashing), or to recruit from the non-hashing population. Occasionally, we get a person who sees us running by and asks what we are about, then they show up and start hashing with us, too!<\/p>\n

How did you find CSS and why did you\u00a0ultimately go with CSS?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I found CSS through a friend of mine who had used their services before. She and I, respectively, decided to use CSS because they have socks at a good price, and, at the heart of the matter, they own their own machinery and didn’t mind us putting curse words on the socks. We are a social club that can be somewhat unorthodox and it can sometimes be difficult to find companies willing to work with us and meet our needs.<\/p>\n

Are you planning on launching any other initiatives using CSS socks in the future?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Our group will probably order custom socks<\/a> twice a year as we are a smaller group, but we have plenty of “kennels” that may order once a quarter or more of large quantities.<\/p>\n

Interested in learning more about this group and this unique past time? Do a quick search to see if there is a hasher group in your area that you can try out. Are you a part of a hasher\u2019s group? We are currently offering a 10% discount to all hashers who are interested in ordering socks for their team! Get in touch and we will get you hooked up.<\/p>\n

Are you, your team, or company using\u00a0Custom Sock Shop Socks<\/a> in a cool way? Tell us about it. We\u2019d love to know.\u00a0Contact us<\/a>\u00a0with your photos and story and you could be featured as a customer spotlight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For May\u2019s customer of the month, we are highlighting one of our most enthusiastic as well as unusual customers: the Hash House Harriers, a self-proclaimed drinking club with a running problem. This international group organizes non-competitive runs a.k.a \u201chashes\u201d where participants get together to do some off the road trail running. We caught up with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4387,"featured_media":35957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom-sock-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customsockshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}