My Best Promotion: Infusing Bold Solutions & What We Do Do

This year, the Be Bold, Be Different, Be Memorable blog postings will have a common theme. Promo Marketing has asked me to focus on the topic “My Best Promotion.”

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What’s Your Biggest Business Threat?

We’re beginning to craft the editorial content for the next QCAConnect, coming out in March. I hope you have enjoyed our supplements to Promo Marketing so far—but if you haven’t yet had the opportunity to check it out, here’s a link to the winter edition of QCAConnect. It’s chock full of valuable information for your business and definitely worth the read, if I do say so myself.

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Suppliers, Where Are You? Distributors, Where Are You?

I am hardly an expert in the area of social media. In my personal online life, I will post pictures of my cute, but very weird dogs and family outings. I’ll occasionally “check in” at restaurants, since it’s important for my “friends” to know I’m eating well and hanging with the right people that I “tag.”

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So You Think it’s Fun?

Having just returned from some early-season trade shows, I am in awe of the commitment my industry colleagues have to help us build our business. I wrote about this some time ago in a commentary entitled, “A Salute to Our Industry Heroes.”

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A Memorable Week!

You don’t realize the impact of some things until you have a few days to reflect on what happened. I’ve been to many PPAI Expo weeks, but this one was like no other. In this commentary, I share a few of my video reports that offer some insight on what went on in Vegas.

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We’re Not Going to Change It

At the 2015 PPAI Expo, FreePromoTips.com will be receiving a technology award for our website. We are honored that what we do for suppliers, distributors and the industry is being recognized by PPAI. This is also a positive for the supplier and distributor companies that understand and support what FreePromoTips.com does.

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It’s Simple. Be Nice. It’s Good for Business

Good communication leads to good relationships, and good relationships are good for business. This applies to both our personal and professional lives.

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It’s Tested, Right?

Trust, but verify. Three simple words that form the best advice I can offer when talking about sourcing safe product from suppliers in our industry.

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