SAAC Announces New Officers and Board Members for 2013

Election results for the Specialty Advertising Association of California (SAAC) 2013 Governance Team were announced October 30, 2012 at the annual meeting in Anaheim, California.

Sarah deBoer with A.T. Cross will head the executive board as president, with Beverly Walter with Brown and Bigelow serving as vice president, Bob Levitt with Bob Levitt Company as treasurer, and David Chen with Totally Bamboo as secretary. Filling out the executive board is Immediate Past President Craig Reese with Jack Nadel International.

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PPAI Introduces Health Care Planning Tool

Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) on November 7 introduced the PPAI Health Care Planning Tool. In an effort to address the needs of its members, PPAI has added this new tool to help members navigate the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

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Employee Appreciation: Answering the “Why”

Let’s look at it from the employee’s point of view. They come into work everyday in snow, rain, sunshine or even hurricanes. They work diligently on making customers happy and carrying out tasks that keep everything moving. In the beginning of their career they were excited to work for you, and connected to the work you were doing as a company. As time went on, your employees forgot the real mission and got lost in the details of day-to-day tasks and meetings. They have stopped communicating the “why” of your brand and are now more focused on their job title.

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Itʼs Not Your Clientsʼ Job to Remember You. Itʼs Your Job to Make Yourself Unforgettable.

So youʼre resourceful and you can find nearly any product. Congratulations. So can Google. So you can deliver on time and within budget. Congratulations. So can about 25,000 other distributors out there. So you really care about your customers and you seriously want to help them. Good. Most of us do, too. What are you doing that is going to make you stand out?

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EmbroidMe Signs Master Franchise Agreement in Central America

EmbroidMe, the world’s largest embroidery franchise, announced today the signing of a master franchise agreement with Ernesto Martinez and Adolfo Martinez for development in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala over the next several years. The agreement was signed at the Annual EmbroidMe Master Summit Conference in Nice, France.

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QCA Hires Jeffrey P. Jacobs as Executive Director

The Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional product industry’s only independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products, has hired Jeffrey P. Jacobs as executive director. In this new role, he is responsible for increasing visibility of QCA both within the supplier/distributor community as well as outside the industry.

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