We get it. The economy is challenging. It’s all we seem to hear about these days. How about a few pointers as to how to make this down economy work for you and your business?
Read MoreHALO/Lee Wayne Acquires Novelties Group
Sterling, Illinois-based HALO/Lee Wayne, announced the purchase of the Advertising Novelties Company, a promotional products distributor based in Tulsa, Oklahoma in an all-cash transaction.
Read MoreCedar Crest Manufacturing Begins Operations
Cedar Crest Manufacturing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a new supplier of writing instruments to the promotional products industry. Founded by a team of former Norwood/Souvenir staff, the company offers a distribution network with more than 80 years of experience.
Read MoreThirteen Distributors Affiliate with iPROMOTEu in February 2009
Wayland, Massachusetts-based iPROMOTEu announced 13 promotional products distributors affiliated with iPROMOTEu in February 2009. Presently, more than 400 distributors from 43 states, in addition to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, are affiliated with iPROMOTEu.
Read MoreThere’s No BPA in BABY!
Being a first time parent, there are a lot of things I didn’t know going in, but perhaps the biggest thing I didn’t even think about is how much stuff goes along with parenting. Babies need stuff. Babies need batteries
Read MoreRecession Disorders?
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist (1856 -1939)
Hooray Hooray for Deadline Day
I know I didn’t tease this in last week’s post, but I thought it might be fun to give you all a glimpse of what it’s like on deadline day here at Promo Marketing, mostly because it’s deadline day today, and that’s pretty much all that’s on my mind. Not that deadlines really bother me, it’s more that if you can see the finish line, you mind really isn’t on kittens or the great sandwich you had for lunch. We’re going to do this piece time-stamp style, and promise each other that we won’t think about kittens until it’s over.
Read MoreAdmints Garners Industry Awards
Save the Date
I’ve been talking a lot about the Web recently, it seems. By my running tally, some type of Internet news or terminology has been mentioned in oh, I don’t know, at least three of my last five blog posts. So, in an effort to keep my (almost) weekly howdy-dos fresh and fizzy, today I’m going to discuss … the Web.
Read More20 Questions
I’ve recently started work on Promo Marketing’s Top 50 Distributors List, which is amazing and wonderful if for nothing else than the fact that I’m getting paid to make a list. The Top 50, much like the masthead of our magazine, is arranged by income level, ability to wreck house at shuffle board, and whether I can get ahold of your information or not.
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