Toddy Gear, Chicago, announced the launch of its full-featured and mobile-friendly website, www.toddypromo.com. The company designed this new site to provide the ultimate user-friendly experience with improved functionality throughout and an extensive list of new features, including 3-D virtuals for select products. The site enables visitors to access detailed product information, options, all product specification…
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Next Sunday, I’ll be in San Diego for our Power Meeting event. This will be my first Power Meeting event, and also my first time in California, and I’m looking forward to both equally. (OK, maybe I’m looking forward to the burritos out there the most, but the event is a close second.) After booking…
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The Pittsburgh Pirates went through with a promotion featuring a bobblehead of infielder Jung Ho Kang, the subject of a sexual assault investigation, but offered fans an alternative promotion.
Read MoreAsk Melinda Durkee, co-owner of Proforma Durkee, and she will tell you, “At first I was very hesitant to consider Proforma, but now I think it’s one of the best things we’ve ever done.” After…
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Shumsky, Dayton, Ohio, announced that Keith Hawk, senior vice president of sales of LexisNexis Inc., has joined the Shumsky advisory board, effective immediately. Hawk’s professional background includes more than 30 years in a wide variety of roles (e.g., senior vice president of sales, vice president of customer support, director of marketing, director of technical support)…
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All business owners and sales reps know they should have a plan, right? We’ve all heard the saying, “If we fail to plan, then we are planning to fail,” right? There are three types of business plans, and in my next three articles I will address them. The first and most common type of plan…
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Bill Mahre, president of ADG Promotional Products. I received an invitation to participate on a recent panel discussion (as one of four ad-specialty suppliers). It was on the state of the industry in front of 800-plus key distributors and suppliers was a terrific opportunity to review key challenges…
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Question: Why can’t I email out of my QuickBooks Premier 2013 anymore? Answer: “Software sunset.” Intuit, the company that owns QuickBooks, like other software providers, continually upgrades and improves its products. And, from time to time, it stops supporting the older software in favor of the more recent versions. The QuickBooks products have been evolving…
Read MorePromo Marketing’s Video Battle pits two industry videos against each other for the chance at the ultimate bragging right: Being declared our readership’s absolute favorite. (Next up: It’s 108 degrees outside with the heat index right now. Or, as we like to call it, video game weather.) Last week, Logomark won its fourth battle, earning…
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The 2016 Specialty Advertising Association of California (SAAC) Show wrapped up yesterday, and we got to take a good look around the showroom floor. While the sun in Southern California sure was nice, getting to check out some cool promotional products really was the highlight for us. Here are some of the items that stood…
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