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Editorial Type: Best Practices
SEO Best Practices for Business of All Sizes
SEO is a necessary part of doing business in this day and age. The way companies spread the word about themselves is different.
Read MoreA Comprehensive Guide to Pricing Screen-Printing Jobs for Screen Print Shop Owners
While every screen-printing shop has operating costs, those can differ depending on your locale. Setting the right price for a screen-printing job is crucial.
Read More6 Time Management Hacks to Try in 2024
No matter who you talk to, there never seems to be enough time in the day for the tasks that need to get done. And because the promotional products industry can bring unique curveballs to distributors, it can make sticking to the most important tasks difficult.
Read MoreCautionary Tales: Reddit Users on the Worst Promotional Product They’ve Received from an Employer
A recent Reddit thread on the r/AskReddit subreddit posed the question, “What’s the worst company gift you’ve ever received?” It provided some good insight into what distributors can avoid, and how they can improve their own promo campaigns.
Read MoreBe Careful If Using QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping
Ask the Accountant… Question: Do you have any experience with QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping? Answer: I have not personally worked with QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping, but I have had a couple of distributors come to me after trying to use this service. In one instance, a distributor had a QuickBooks file that he had not kept up…
Read MoreGrowth Opportunities for Apparel Decorators
This article originally appeared in Apparelist. To see more, click here If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that diversification and flexibility are key operational functions to remain in business. For apparel decorators, the idea of convergence (or adding additional products and services) has emerged over the past several years. It’s clear that to survive…
Read MoreProduce Industry Podcast Calls Out Perceived Lack of Promo in Industry
It’s always nice when an end-buyer group comes out and says what they want, or addresses a promo-sized gap in their business. According to Fresh Plaza, a produce industry podcast host said on his podcast that the industry hasn’t paid enough attention to merchandise and promotional products like other industries have, and companies like Nike…
Read More10 Considerations to Get the Most of Your Wide-Format Investment
While it might be tempting to jump into wide format printing with both feet and hope for the best, there are a few things to keep in mind if you want to truly make this new venture successful.
Read MoreQuickBooks Shortcuts You Might Not Know
Ask the Accountant… Question: There are lots on ins and outs in software, and the percentage that any user knows about is likely very small. I was working with a distributor, and he pointed out a shortcut with which I was not familiar. I have shared it below. Answer: In QuickBooks Desktop (Pro, Premier, or…
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