The pandemic is wreaking havoc on the global supply chain, with real consequences for print and promo businesses. Shipping delays and price increases are happening now, but other impacts will take time to play out—and last long after the pandemic ends. Here’s what distributors should know and what actions they can take…
Read MoreOur 5 Favorite Promotional Products of the Week: Colorful Notebooks, ‘Toy Story 4’ Forky Kits and More
Snow days were fun as a kid, but long weekends as an adult are hard to beat. The recent long weekend meant we had some extra time to prepare for this week’s edition of our five favorite promotional products, which includes a ‘Toy Story 4’ build-your-own-Forky kit, a killer notebook and some other great items…
Read More9 (Non-Mask) Product Ideas for the Health Care Market
Assisted living facilities, primary care doctors, dental offices—all have had to learn and adapt as they balance staff and patient safety with business and operational needs. Distributors have had to adapt, too, as they look to keep providing health care customers with the best and most critical print and promotional products—PPE and otherwise…
Read MoreWelcome to New Ideas With Spector & Co.!
The first month of the new year has already come and gone! We thought we’d use this opportunity to let you in on some new and exciting products for 2021. Let’s get right into it by first focusing on keeping those hands clean! First up is the Spencer. It automatically dispenses soap or hand sanitizer…
Read MoreADG Promo Products Announces Rebrand
ADG Promo Products announced the launch of its new brand identity, redesigned logo and website. This comes as the supplier builds on its momentum with growth in its new product lines. The new logo and brand identity are now live, while the website is planned for relaunch at the beginning of April…
Read MoreToddy Gear Promotes Kristian Pawlikowski to Regional Sales Manager
Toddy Gear, Chicago, announced the promotion of Kristian Pawlikowski to regional sales manager. In his new role, Pawlikowski will continue to develop existing relationships within the Midwest, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana, while prospecting and identifying new customers to further increase Toddy Gears footprint in its…
Read MoreMental Health and Diversity With Gold Bond’s Britney Godsey
The embrace of diversity is to support those diminished by stigmas, and mental health in the workplace is certainly one of the more prominent stigmas. There continues to be a great deal of unconscious bias on mental health issues in the workplace that impact quality of performance. This loss of productivity is debilitating not only to the individual, but to the organization as a whole…
Read MoreYou Must Do This to Be Successful
One key mindset ingredient of million dollar success is the mindset of knowing. Successful people have this common mindset. When they set out to achieve something, they don’t wonder if they will be successful. They don’t doubt that they will be successful. They surely don’t actively worry that they will fail…
Read MoreTinder Wants to Make Its Own Line of ‘Tinder Made’ Smartphone Accessories, Apparel and More
If you use Tinder as a dating app, you want to protect your phone, right? If your phone cracks or breaks, it’d be hard to find love. Tinder is looking to solve that problem with its own proprietary mobile accessories (and other items), based on a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application for “Tinder Made” products that was accepted on Jan. 20…
Read MoreOatly Outsmarted Twitter Trolls Hating On Its Super Bowl Commercial by Giving Away a T-shirt About Hating Its Commercial
Did you catch the Oatly commercial during the Super Bowl where the company’s CEO sang a jingle about how it’s “like milk, but made for humans,” while playing a keyboard in the middle of a field? Did you hate it? Did you hate it enough to wear a T-shirt telling everybody how much you hated it? Oatly won’t be offended. In fact, it was kind of banking on that happening…
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