Print+Promo Marketing is proud to present its annual “Women in Print and Promo” feature. This year’s group of honorees is changing the narrative of female representation in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Meet Grethe Adams, president/CEO for Southern Plus…
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2023 Women in Print and Promo: Amber Hill, IDLine by Halls & Company
Print+Promo Marketing is proud to present its annual “Women in Print and Promo” feature. This year’s group of honorees is changing the narrative of female representation in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Meet Amber Hill, creative director for IDLine by Halls & Company…
Read MoreHow One Supplier Used Her Creative Voice and Found Her Joy in the Industry
The true grit of a New Yorker can’t be outdone. Just ask Judith B. Friedman. With a freshly minted English degree, she used her flair for words to churn out snappy ad copy for several major players on Madison Avenue before finding a home in the TV ad spot buying crowd. Back then, the scene…
Read MoreHow One Industry Pro’s Virtual Game Nights United a Community (and Showed The Lasting Value of Online Communication for Promo)
This is the story of “Quarantime,” an interactive party game that began as an impromptu Instagram Live hangout and ultimately became a way for a socially-distanced community to stay connected while raising thousands of dollars for charity (and much more). But let’s start at the beginning…
Read MoreHow One Top Promo Distributor Built a Culture of Creativity in the Workplace—and the Big Ways It’s Paying Off
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…
Read MoreSilver Swag Box’s Brandi Allen and Ashley Rollins on Starting a Subscription Box From Scratch, Product Curation, Personalization and More
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 MoreDecoration Diaries: How One Distributor Set Up a Nonprofit Customer for Branded Apparel Success
Bret Mealing, owner of SC Embroidery & Screenprinting, a promo distributor and decorator based in Columbia, S.C., explained how he expanded his apparel decoration business and helped a nonprofit create a branded merchandise program that grew into the organization’s second-largest revenue stream…
Read MoreAn Industry Veteran Wrote the Book (Literally) on How Promo Businesses Are Finding Purpose, Doing Good and Getting More Business
In the months since the pandemic started, we’ve all turned to various hobbies to stay sane and pass the time. Some of us started baking bread or tie-dying shirts. Others brushed up on guitar or watched all of Netflix. Roger Burnett wrote a book. Here, Burnett fills us in on how it all came together, what the book is about and why promo professionals should give it a read…
Read MoreHow One Promo Company Turned Massive PPE Sales Success Into a Creative Give-Back Effort
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…
Read MoreDecoration Diaries: How a Promo Distributor Turned a T-shirt Order Into Much More (and Gained New Customers)
When a parent organization at a Philadelphia charter school approached Damien Smith with a chance to provide students with T-shirts and various school supplies for an event, it gave Smith an opportunity to upsell with more promo items that fit into the school’s water park field trip and become the go-to distributor for a community…
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