How do decorators ensure they are stocked up on everything from basic T-shirts to hats and more? And how do they make sure they’re staying on top of current trends? They work with suppliers, like Delta Apparel, to make sure everything from Ts in every size and color to hats and bags are always ordered, on-hand, and ready to go.
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Pillbox Bat Company’s Dan Watson joins the podcast today to talk about how one branded bat promotion led to a relationship with the Minnesota Twins, and how that relationship led to a referral to other teams across the league. Watson also discusses the idea of a baseball bat being an artistic medium.
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DFC provides fulfillment for any promotional product program with quick-turn solutions using the latest in heat printing technology. Promotional Fulfillment is ideal for any brand looking for unique solutions for on-demand printing, specializing in corporate programming. With transfer manufacturing in-house we can execute fast turn times without being held up by supply chains.
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What’s the best way to showcase modern online marketing methods and the latest advances in packaging and labeling products? A fictional murder mystery set in the 1920s, of course. If that made you do a double take, well, that’s what Repacorp Inc. was counting on…
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As we say often around here, a good strategy for standing out in a heavily commoditized market is providing value beyond price. One way to do that? Exceptional creativity that elevates an otherwise basic product to build a real connection between customers and their target audiences. Here’s how one top distributor is doing that…
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Silver Swag Box founders Brandi Allen and Ashley Rollins told us what it was like starting a subscription box service with no prior experience, how they select the themes and items for each box, how they use personalization to make each box special, and much more…
Read MoreIn January 2020, Ampersand Group’s Todd Mellon and his team officially launched The Power of One Group. The idea was simple: Create a robust directory of vendors in print, promo and office supplies, giving distributor members easy access to all three segments…
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In the first half of 2020 alone, iPromo booked 1,000 percent more sales and shipped 800 percent more orders than it did in all of 2019. But after months of soaring PPE sales catapulted iPromo to these record numbers, discarded PPE was now littering the streets and piling up in waterways, raising alarm from a growing number of environmentalists. The company has a fun idea to help clean it up…
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Superior Group of Companies, parent of Los Angeles-based distributor BAMKO, announced record operating results for the second quarter 2020, including a 73 percent increase in net sales to $159.4 million. BAMKO was largely responsible for that growth, reporting that its Q2 2020 sales increased by 218 percent year over year to $75.5 million. Much of that was PPE, but not all…
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Each year, Promo Marketing compiles the top promotional products distributors into one comprehensive list. We asked some of the 2020 top distributors for their thoughts on the industry, their plans for the future and more. Here, we talked to Dawn Conway of Shumsky/Boost Engagement, the No. 45 company on our 2020 Top Distributors list…
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