Boundless, Austin, Texas, has appointed Chris Piper to lead the distributor’s customer success team. Piper comes to Boundless with more than 20 years of hands-on experience as a Certified Advertising Specialist (CAS), helping clients achieve measurable success with high-impact branded promotional concepts. Piper also serves as the president of the Northwest Promotional Marketing Association (NWPMA).…
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Forever 21 is under fire this week after the company released a graphic T-shirt featuring the phrase: “Don’t say maybe if you want to say no,” according to Refinery 29. The men’s T-shirt has received extensive backlash on social media for promoting rape culture and victim-shaming. Although there has been no explanation for the meaning…
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Plenty of people make their New Year’s Resolutions things like “run more.” Reebok thinks that the current presidential candidates should do that, if they haven’t already. The sportswear company is offering to donate $50,000 to a health charity if any presidential candidate can run a mile in less than 10 minutes.
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Hi there, Promo Marketing audience! I’ll get to the tools in a quick second, but I wanted to introduce myself first. My name is Mandy Kilinskis. I’m the content and social media manager for distributor Quality Logo Products, Aurora, Ill. I’ll be here monthly to share practical tips on digital marketing. Enough about me—on to the…
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Re/Done, a Los Angeles-based clothing retailer, has partnered with Hanesbrands Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C,. to revamp the apparel manufacturer’s classic cotton T-shirt. According to Observer, the redesigned T-shirt comes in two women’s styles—the 1950s style features a boxy fit, and the 1960s is longer…
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iClick, Seattle, announced that Cynthia Troiani will represent the tech supplier as a regional sales manager for the South territory. This territory includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Troiani, a 15-year veteran in the promotional marketing industry, brings to iClick a distributor and supplier background. “We are…
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If you recall, last week Justin Bieber’s Purpose tour kicked off with an embarrassing mistake: a typo on the tour T-shirt. Fans dropped $45 to purchase the tee and were less than pleased upon realizing the mistake. The T-shirts featured a passage from Proverbs, which said: “Many…
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From pizzerias to pie shops, everyone is getting in on the Pi Day fun. You don’t have to be a mathematician to take part in the infinitely (see what we did there?) fun holiday—you just need a good pie promotion. Give your end-users an excuse to celebrate this tasty holiday with these seven pie promotions, and…
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Ad Trends Advertising Inc., a Blue Springs, Missouri-based distributor, announced that it has merged with Overland Park, Kansas-based distributor Custom Specialties LLC. “By combining the companies’ strengths and having offices on both sides of the state line, [it] will provide a huge benefit to our clients and personnel,” Mark Cromwell, president of Ad Trends Inc.,…
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Big D Promos, Dallas, announced that it has relaunched as Elevate Brand Marketing. The change reflects the company’s broader strategy and expanded capabilities. According to a press release, Elevate Brand Marketing’s goal is to ensure often overlooked areas of the promotional products industry and integrate event management into a brand’s overall marketing strategy to build…
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