Timothy James Richardson, my uncle, passed away on Sept. 9, 2016 following a long, 15-month battle with cancer. He was 63 years old. My grandparents raised me, and when I was 16, my uncle came to live with us. Until then, I knew him as Uncle Timmy the doctor—kind of stiff, kind of stern. Over…
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Here at Promo Marketing, we don’t market ourselves as the healthiest people (See any of our magazine’s product descriptions. Previously used words and phrases include: pizza, lazy, movie marathon, reheated leftovers, we don’t take the stairs…), but we believe that striving for a healthier lifestyle should be top priority, so we’re trying to make some changes.
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We all know a pill box is used to organize medicine and vitamins, but what if the business you are promoting has no relation to the health or medical field? Think “outside the box” for very creative ways of promoting with pill boxes and pill trays.
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While fabrics in the performance and corporate apparel arena have seen some pretty cool developments in recent years, Nanosilver use might be one that needs a bit more research in regards to its long term effects.
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist (1856 -1939)
In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to write a bit about selling to the hotel industry this week. Larry Wilhelm, president and owner of Custom HBC, gave me a ton of information that I wasn’t able to use for my March travel feature, but I thought was interesting and useful and I don’t want to let it slip by. What follows is Wilhelm explaining different ways distributors can target the hotel industry with health-care promotions, more or less directly from our interview, edited only for length and clarity.
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