The Giving Season

It may be the tail end of August, but the holiday season is right around the corner. One of the biggest stresses that comes with the season is sending and spreading that holiday cheer. To save you some of that stress, we came up with eight tips to get you through the most wonderful time of the year.

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Man’s Best Promotion

Pet owners love nothing more than giving their pets things, and because of that, they’re an incredible end-user market for promotional products. Looking to get in on the action? Check out the quick primer below.

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My Best Promotion

The Image Group created a successful promotion by taking a new and ultra-trendy item, conductive texting gloves, and inserting them into a direct mail holiday promotion that showed off the company’s creative design skills through a decorated holiday envelope.

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Ritter Pen USA Office Closing

Ritter Pen Corporation will be closing its U.S. office on July 31 2013. The Ritter Pen line will be carried through Mi Pen Company, a Canadian and U.S. supplier as of August 1, 2013. The decision was made in order to provide a larger distribution area, as well as a more flexible and quicker production time.

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Superior Uniform Group Reports Second Quarter Operating Results

Superior Uniform Group Inc., manufacturer of uniforms, career apparel and accessories, recently announced that for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013, sales were $30,854,000, compared with 2012 second quarter sales of $29,335,000. Net earnings were $1,438,000 or $0.23 per share (diluted), compared with earnings of $977,000 or $0.16 per share (diluted) in the 2012 second quarter.

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Less Than One Week Before the 2013 SAAC Show

Less than a week remains before the 2013 SAAC Show. Scheduled for August 7 and 8, the trade show is put on and organized by the Specialty Advertising Association of California (SAAC). Many new features and events have been added this year, including a $12,500 prize giveaway and new food vendors like In-N-Out Burger and

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AHEAD Unveils Company’s New Design Studio

AHEAD, the headwear, apparel and accessories company, recently opened the doors on its first-ever in-house design studio to help foster creativity, promote collaboration between senior designers and provide a place for customers to interact with staff on their custom graphics, products and logos.

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Logomark Expands Product Offerings

Custom promotional products and corporate gift supplier Logomark recently announced it will now offer decoration on two well-established retail baggage lines: Ellehammer and Solo. The company also presented over 50 new products in its core categories at the ASI Show in Chicago on July 17, where it also debuted its Holiday 2013 Catalog.

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Ricko’s Patent-pending Bullseye Accounts Method for Success, Part 2: Targeting

This is the second half of an article that covers my Bullseye method of pursing and landing large accounts as PART of your account prospecting effort. If you are just coming to the party, go back into Blog Historyville and read up on Part One before continuing here. Otherwise, you’ll just be half-effective—and Bold, Different and Memorable-type Peeps don’t do things by halfsies.

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