I’ve been in the promotional products industry for more than 25 years, both selling products and programs, and coaching and educating distributor sales professionals. I’ve seen a multitude of changes in that time, but one thing remains the same: our reliance on quality suppliers.
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Ricko’s Patent-pending Bullseye Accounts Method for Success, Part 2: Targeting
This is the second half of an article that covers my Bullseye method of pursing and landing large accounts as PART of your account prospecting effort. If you are just coming to the party, go back into Blog Historyville and read up on Part One before continuing here. Otherwise, you’ll just be half-effective—and Bold, Different and Memorable-type Peeps don’t do things by halfsies.
Read MoreProactive Selling in a Reactive Environment
If you have been in our industry longer than 10 years, you will probably agree that we have seen significant changes in the way we service our clients. The two most significant changes have been with communications and the “reactive” nature to our sales process today.
Read MoreThe Best Way to Use Virtual Samples. Ever.
There are a lot of great uses for Technologo’s virtual sample technology on PromoMarketing.com. This is not one of them.
Read More7 Powerful FREE Online Resources for Promotional Products Sales Professionals
This week, rather than write my usual blog post, I’m going to share with you 7 powerful free online resources guaranteed to save you time and help you make more money in your promotional products business.
Read MoreCan “Pink Spoons” Increase Your Promotional Products Sales?
The ice cream shop, Baskin Robins, made pink spoons famous. You can walk into the shop and sample any flavor, before purchase, on a little pink spoon. As an ice cream lover, I always enjoy sampling new flavors and coming back for more, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
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