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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Overlook the Delivery, It’s the Message That Counts

Last weekend, you probably sat down with a record 114 million other people in the U.S. to watch the commercials and a Super Bowl broke out. For as long as I can remember, even if the game wasn’t competitive, you could always count on the commercials for entertainment.

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Safety and Compliance: Run Toward the Problem, Not Away

When the discussion turns to delivering safe and compliant promotional products, and specifically how difficult it is to do, I usually go with this response: “You can either run toward the problem, or you can run away from it.”

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Promotional Products: The Importance of Transparency and the Supply Chain

I had a chance to spend time with Stephanie Leader, president and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based distributor LeaderPromos, and we spoke about the importance of transparency and the supply chain as it relates to promotional products.

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A Brief Look at Quality Control in an Asian Factory

Quality control is arguably the single most important part of your supply chain. In the promotional products industry it is often neglected in order to save time or simply because the whole process is not transparent enough. This is unnecessary, since doing quality control right can be much faster and much more effective than some might think it is.

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“Picture Day” – Why Factory Audits Are Not Enough

Remember back in the day when you combed your hair, brushed your teeth, put on your best pair of khakis and a new shirt—all for your classroom photo? That’s what factories do on audit day.

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Differentiating Quality Still a Challenge for the Promotional Products Industry

Of all the costs that go into making a promotional product, quality costs are often the hardest to appreciate.

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Supply Chain Transparency and Control

Corporate America’s expectations for supply chain transparency and control continue to grow as companies work to manage growing risk in light of the evolving product safety and compliance environment.

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