Management

One a Day to Win the Day
November 21, 2022 at 7:46 am

Recently I’m noticing a trend when I chat with folks in our industry. In my conversations I always like to hear what people are doing to grow their business. Time spent on business development. I define this as time spent prospecting. Lately what I am hearing is lots of excuses for not doing any business…

2022 Top Suppliers: How Taking a Risk Paid Off for Koozie Group
November 15, 2022 at 2:56 pm

As part of Print+Promo Marketing's 2022 Top Suppliers list, we asked some of the top-ranked suppliers about how they managed to continue to grow and bounce back from the pandemic, their thoughts on where the industry stands, their future plans and more. Read on for our conversation with David Klatt, CEO of Koozie Group, the…

2022 Top Suppliers: A Snapshot of a Recovering Industry
November 15, 2022 at 10:47 am

More than two years removed from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're all pretty sick of hearing terms like "pivoting" and "new normal," but there's a reason that those phrases have been thrown around so much. It's exactly what business owners – and everyone else – had to do. Within the promotional products industry,…

Order My Gear Acquires BrightStores
November 14, 2022 at 4:00 pm

Order My Gear announced today that it has acquired BrightStores, a provider of online company stores for promotional products distributors. "Kent McKeaigg founded OMG in 2007 with a vision to create a simple way for team dealers to sell to groups online," Leonid Rozkin, CEO of OMG, said in a release on OMG's website. "Dan…

So Many Item Numbers
November 11, 2022 at 11:11 am

Ask the Accountant… Question: When I create orders in SAGE and bring them over into QuickBooks, I like to create generic items, such as apparel, and change the description each time. It seems like I would have too many items otherwise. What do you think? Answer: In QuickBooks Premier, you can have up to 14,500…

A Culture of Unbelief
November 8, 2022 at 9:29 am

A culture of unbelief stems from owners not following up on what they speak. Here is what you can do to fix this type of culture.

You Can Have It All If…
November 7, 2022 at 10:53 am

I talk to lots of business owners that want to have more. More sales. More profits. More fun in life. And one thing I know for sure is that you really can have it all if... You don’t do it all. That’s right. You can have it all if you don’t do it all. Unfortunately,…