LinkedIn has added a new “click” feature that enables you to very easily “endorse” people for their expertise in the skill areas listed on their LinkedIn profile. A recent article from Social Media Examiner talks about this new feature and offers 6 Tips for Using the LinkedIn New Endorsements. Endorsements has been met with mixed reviews. But it does set the stage for additional dialogue on how social media connections turn into actual business relationships?
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Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), the world’s largest and oldest international not-for-profit promotional products association, in conjunction with the Regional Association Council (RAC), is offering disaster relief in the form of the Promotional Products Disaster Recovery Foundation Business Recovery Fund to assist promotional products industry members and non-members seriously affected by the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
PPAI urges affected industry members to contact PPAI at [email protected] or (888) I-AM-PPAI (426-7724) for assistance with specific needs to restart their business, to update their contact information, with questions, or to report a business outage. The PPDRF Business Recovery Fund has information and resources on its website about how to prepare for a disaster.
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In its annual fundraising campaign, Newton, Iowa-based The Vernon Company raised a total of $24,272 for the United Way of Jasper County.
Corporate-office employees raised $16,671 through a series of fundraising efforts, including raffle drawings, a silent auction, a walking taco lunch, a used office-equipment sale, “Vernon Survivor” games, and employee and retiree pledge card donations. The Vernon Company supported employees’ fundraising efforts, pledging a $7,500 match towards the campaign.
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Several of the businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy were able to reopen today, but many remain closed or are operating at reduced capacity. Below is a list noting which companies have opened and which have remained closed as of 3:00 p.m. EST today. Notes on each company’s status have been provided where available.
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ETS Express Inc. is focusing on “express” this holiday season by adding a follow-up to its highly successful 24-hour rush program called e24. The new offering is known as e48 and provides 48-hour rush service at no additional charge. Orders involving a one-color imprint placed through this new program by 6 p.m. EST (3 p.m. PST) will ship two days after the order is placed.
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Are you looking for ways to help your customers keep promotions hot and profitable? Gloves can be the perfect addition. Check out some of the latest styles here.
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Natural Trends recently announced that it has partnered exclusively with the Procter and Gamble Company as part of its Connect+Develop open innovation program on a project aimed at developing new sales channels for P&G’s Tide to Go Instant Stain Remover stain pen.
Natural Trends, which provides everyday useful items to the promotional products industry, is adding Tide to Go to its list of co-brandable promotional items available to companies, individuals and organizations in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
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Though many businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy were able to reopen today, there are some that still remain closed. Below is yesterday’s list of closed businesses, amended to note which have opened and which have remained closed as of 3:15 p.m. EST today. Messages from the closed companies have been posted when available.
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Greenville, South Carolina-based Delta Apparel Inc. achieved record revenue for its fiscal 2013 first quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an action to enforce a subpoena issued to Los Angeles-based apparel retailer Forever 21 seeking documents related to the company’s apparel contractors and manufacturers.
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