Easy Cruising: 3 Automotive Promotions That Work

Long work commutes and heavy traffic patterns cause automobiles to be second homes to some people, which means the automotive market is large for promotional products. We spoke to Janet Trachter, vice president of sales and marketing for Superex, Toronto, Canada, and Paul Dubois, general manager for Ready 4 Kits, Keene, N.H., to find out what three automotive promotional products sell best.

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The Long Way ‘Round

Don’t worry about spending $12.00 to see Fast & Furious 6 in theaters for auto product inspiration. We checked with a few auto products suppliers and apparently the movie offers no practical advice for selling automotive products. Follow these tips instead.

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Accelerate to Innovate

The fruits of automotive innovation are starting to pay off with a renewed strength in car sales. And with strength in sales, there is typically renewed strength in marketing, which is where you come in.

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Supplier Excellence Awards Finalists

THE EDITORS AT Promo Marketing are thrilled to announce this year’s finalists for the 2011 Supplier Excellence Awards. With so many great suppliers on the semifinalist list, it was tough deciding who in the industry is top in any given category. So this year, we put the decision making in your hands, dear distributors. We…

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Sunny Days Are Here Again?

ACCORDING TO THE U.S. Travel Association, a nonprofit travel industry group based in Washington, the travel industry shed approximately 400,000 jobs in the past two years. This number is significant for a market that accounts for 7.7 million U.S. jobs and indirectly affects 10 million others.

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A Room of Its Own

“HOME IS WHERE the heart is,” may be perfectly cute and philosophical as far as generic cultural idioms go, but ?information-laden it is not. After all, the home is a big place, so where exactly in the house might the “heart” be? The kitchen?

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