Let’s imagine you go to the doctor for a sore throat. You sit down to discuss your symptoms, but the doctor doesn’t ask about your symptoms. Instead, she lists every ailment she knows without asking you any questions. It makes you feel unimportant. It makes you feel like your needs are irrelevant. It’s the same…
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Promo Marketing Releases 2019 Power Meeting and Power House Dates
Promo Marketing, the Philadelphia-based provider of product information and custom marketing solutions for distributor sales professionals, today released its 2019 Power Meeting and Power House dates. The big news? Two Power House meetings!…
Read More5 Ways to Identify Reliable Suppliers and Authentic Products
Besides being the right thing to do for your customers and your business, there are major benefits to working with reliable and trusted suppliers. Here are five things to look when identifying a supplier partner…
Read More4 Ways to Market to Millennials
On vacation a few years ago, I stopped at an amazing gluten-free bakery. I have an allergy, so I had to go inside and try something. Once home and still dreaming of the delicious baked goods I’d eaten, I left a review on the bakery’s Facebook page and immediately got a response. The owner thanked…
Read MoreWebb Company Announces New Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Webb Company, Eagan, Minn., announced the hiring of Jake Peterson as vice president of sales and marketing. With 10 years of experience in the promotional product industry, Peterson comes to Webb from LarLu Manufacturing, where he most recently held the position of national sales manager. Peterson has an outstanding…
Read MorePPAI Launches Industry Intern Education Program
Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), announced its new Intern Education Program for member companies seeking to cultivate the next generation of promotional professionals and showcase the exciting careers the promotional products industry has to offer. “The PPAI Intern Education Program is a key part of PPAI’s strategic plan to engage its membership in transforming the…
Read MoreBamBams and T-shirt Tycoon Solutions Inc. Join Together for CoLab
T-Shirt Tycoon Solutions Inc. and BamBams announced the formation of CoLab—two partner companies collaborating to give customers a full package, single-purchase-order solution with multiple product categories for all of their private label needs. Together, BamBams and T-Shirt Tycoon partnered to give customers a single creative service, marketing direction and all-inclusive pricing model that includes made-from-stock…
Read MoreSportsman Cap & Bag to Launch New Products All Year
Sportsman Cap & Bag, Kansas City, Mo., is now launching new products throughout the year. “Traditionally, we’d release exciting new brands and styles annually,” Dan Saferstein, Sportsman Cap & Bag president, said. “In 2018, we decided not to wait to offer…
Read MorePPAI Names 2018 Woman of Achievement Award Recipients
Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, announced Marsha Londe, owner and CEO of Atlanta-based Tango Partners; and Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS, CEO of Cherry Hill, New Jersey-based creative marketing agency The Scarlet Marketeer, as recipients of…
Read MorePPAI’s Paul Bellantone on Mergers and Acquisitions, Embracing Competition and Facebook Whining (Positivity, People!)
On episode 4 of the Promo Marketing Podcast, PPAI’s Paul Bellantone joined Sean and Brendan for a wide-ranging discussion on mergers and acquisitions, outside competition, Promotional Products Work! Week, Legislative Education and Action Day, and why it’s time for the promo industry to grow up and start respecting itself, dangit! Plus, have you seen those apology commercials from Uber, Facebook and Wells Fargo? Man are they bad!…
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