St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and with it, out come the green wearables—green hats and green suits, accented with shamrocks and 4-leaf clovers. Watch as eccentric leprechauns and exuberant maidens line up outside the bars, eager to transport themselves somewhere new and exhilarating. Inside, personalities and mutual enthusiasm come alive; it’s almost…
Read MoreJudge Approves Class Action Lawsuit for Fans Who Bought Rams Merch Before Team’s Move to LA
This has proven an interesting week to be a Los Angeles Rams fan. On Sunday, the high-scoring NFC champions could muster only a field goal in losing Super Bowl LIII to the New England Patriots, and on Wednesday, the franchise found itself having to deal with another formidable opponent: disgruntled former fans…
Read MoreCan I Integrate SAGE Online With QuickBooks on the Cloud?
Question: Can I have SAGE Online integrate with QuickBooks Premier if my QuickBooks is in a cloud-based storage platform? Answer: The SAGE Online system integrates with QuickBooks well—saving time and effort; recreating orders, customers, vendors and items in QB without having to reenter the data. Unfortunately, at this writing, SAGE cannot integrate with QB when…
Read MoreBuzzFeed, Sony and How Not to Use Branded Items (Hint: Not Instead of Payment)
Imagine if your boss came by your desk one day and said, “Hey, just wanted to let you know that you have had the top sales figures for this company for a whole year! Great work! In lieu of your salary, however, I’m going to give you this T-shirt.” You probably wouldn’t accept that, right?…
Read MoreThe $30,000 Grammys Gift Bag for 2019 Has Some Weird, Wonderful Stuff
We are pretty fond of misnomers around here, with Frederic Chopin’s “Minute Waltz,” which takes no fewer than 90 seconds to play, among our favorites. Since the Grammy Awards “gift bag” has come to include items valued at more than $30,000, we are tempted to add it to our misnomers list, as that thing has come to fit enough stuff to give Santa’s sack a run for its money…
Read MoreImage Source Welcomes Ray Decker, Builds Sales Footprint in Bay Area
Image Source Inc., a branded merchandise agency headquartered in Kirkland, Wash., welcomed sales veteran Ray Decker to their team working from Petaluma, Calif., with plans to grow client relationships in the Bay Area. Decker comes to Image Source with nearly 27 years of experience in the branded merchandise industry.…
Read MoreDelta Air Lines Removes ‘Creepy’ Diet Coke Branded Napkins
Have you ever been on an airplane and thought, “Wow, this would really be a great dating opportunity for me. I’m going to get that person’s phone number. Better yet, I’ll give them mine unsolicited. But wait, I have nothing to write on! Curse this airplane and it’s lack of appropriate vessels for my digits!” Probably not. If you have, the napkins Coca-Cola supplied Delta Air Lines would have been right up your alley…
Read MoreTesla Launched, Then Quickly Took Down, Branded Merch Store on Amazon
So here’s a weird thing: Tesla started an Amazon store where it listed a whole bunch of branded merchandise like drinkware, writing instruments, model cars and more. That’s not the weird part. The weird part is that, as soon as it started picking up some hype from sites like TechCrunch and Mashable, the store disappeared…
Read MoreIndustry Veterans Join Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant
Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant/Lanco has added four industry veterans to its sales team to increase its U.S. and Canadian presence. Adam Brown joined as key accounts manager, Scott Lange and Mike Oliver as multi-line U.S. sales representatives, and Donna Klaassen as multi-line sales representative for British Columbia. “As we grow both organically and thru acquisition,…
Read MoreWarby Parker’s ‘Virtual Try-On’ Feature Uses Augmented Reality, Is Extremely Cool
The only thing worse than going to the dentist is going to the eye doctor for new glasses. The entire process can take a lot of time out of your day, and if we’re being honest, we don’t have that much patience. Warby Parker feels our pain, apparently. The company just released a new version of its app, and it includes a sweet Virtual Try-On feature using augmented reality. The other potential applications are very cool…
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