Excerpts from Education at PPAI Vegas, Part 2

Below is part two of my thoughts and notes from the education sessions I attended Tuesday at The PPAI Expo Las Vegas. Tomorrow I’ll be posting my third and final set of notes on the sessions.

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Hasn’t Wall Street Done Enough? American Businesses Suffer Due to Lack of Lending

Today in an article on the Fox News, Small Business Center website there was a fascinating article titled, “Does Made in the U.S.A. Spell R.I.P?”

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Create a No Cost Marketing Blitz

I know there are many distributors out their who simply don’t get the whole Facebook thing, how it is useful, how it can help grow your business, etc, etc. Just how useful it can be to your business depends on how much you put it to work for you. Today may be your lucky day in learning what Facebook can do for your small business.

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Drinkware tips from Huffermen

Our April issue has been out for a little while now, which among other things, contains my amazing, fantastic and generally mind-blowingly great drinkware story. It contains advice and tips from drinkware experts at Huffermen, 99CentPromos.com, Visstun and Moderne Glass on how to sell different kinds of drinkware, like sports bottles, glassware and travel mugs

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Gone Green?

The promotional products industry is full of company’s that have adopted ecologically friendly practices. From changes in office behavior and recycling practices to full-bore revamps of manufacturing methods and materials used, I think it is safe to say the “green” industry is bigger than U.S. Steel (name that movie reference).

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