Team Phun Announces New Brand Sales Manager

Team Phun, San Diego, announced the promotion of Brittany Aanestad to brand sales manager. Aanestad joined the Team Phun crew in 2020 as a brand consultant, bringing more than 13 years of hospitality and 10 years of sales and marketing experience. She is a motivated leader and a valuable…

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YouTube Will Sell Coachella Merchandise During Livestreams

Coachella sets have been live-streamed for years, even before the pandemic. If you’re not able to make it out to the desert in California for the music festival, you can still watch your favorite artists perform. Now, you can buy your favorite artists’ merchandise while you’re watching the stream on YouTube…

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Supply Chain Issues Have Delayed MLB Uniform Deliveries

Phillies fans noticed this weekend that their team wasn’t wearing its usual cream-colored home alternate uniforms, which it typically wears on Sundays. Some Phillies fans (like me) think they’re the best of the Phillies uniforms, so to miss out on them felt like a personal affront. https://twitter.com/JonnyHeller/status/1513199954294095880 It turns out that even an organization as…

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Proforma Hosts Its Largest Million Dollar Club Event in Company History

Proforma, Cleveland, hosted its largest Million Dollar Club trip at the luxurious Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel. More than 250 Owners joined over 50 supplier partners to celebrate more than $1 billion in collective sale and recognize 90 new and next level members of the Million Dollar Club. These next-levels accomplishments include induction into the Multi-Million,…

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9 USA-Made Promotional Products for Spring and Summer

With all the supply chain issues suppliers, distributors and end-buyers are dealing with, sourcing domestically can alleviate some of the pressure. There’s less worry about factories shutting down or ships waiting outside of ports for days at a time (let alone the time it takes to unload them). Here are nine USA-made promotional products to get you started…

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Past and Future: 7 Promo Lessons From a Departing Industry Veteran

I’ve spent one third of my life dedicated to the promo industry, and I’ve had the absolute pleasure to work with so many phenomenal people and share so many amazing memories along the way. Throughout the years, I’ve learned countless things about myself, my business and life in general, and I thought it’d be great to share some of those…

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