By now, you should have received our 2011 Top Supplier’s Issue. While the issue is intense to produce, it’s also exciting to see exactly how the supplier segment of the industry is fairing and who does what the best in your eyes.
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Being a distributor in today’s business environment is challenging. But the sales cycle has become even more complex due to the variety of compliance expectations from end-buyer customers.
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This week marked my five year anniversary with Promo Marketing. In an industry with so many 20-year vets, five years may seems a pittance, but for me it’s a milestone.
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Consolidation and convenience have advanced so much in the consumer world, I can solve almost any material problem I have in a single store. I see a similar trend beginning to swell within our industry.
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While some may wish it were so, product safety is not going away.
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Someone brought an article to my attention that I wrote a couple years ago. For years I presented this content in seminars at industry events around the country, but now it’s online for you to enjoy.
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There are few topics in our industry that stimulate more lively discussion then trade shows. Are there too many? What do you really get out of them? What will you miss if you don’t go? And the question that seems to be hotly debated recently… should industry trade shows allow hosted end-users to attend?
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Research firm IBISWorld says United States apparel manufacturing is a dying industry. What do you think?
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Change is something that many of us have a hard time with. And times they are a changing for our industry. In fact, I truly believe the way our industry operates now is fast becoming obsolete. That may sound harsh, but please hear me out.
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The American Motorcycle Association fought the law, and the law lost.
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