Marketing and Sales

Welcome to PM Screen Time! In this new video series, Sean Norris and Brendan Menapace talk with promotional products professionals about their challenges, wins and creative ideas, in the hopes of sparking some ideas and inspiration for anyone who needs it. In this episode, Denielle Lue, owner of Stitch to My Lue Promotions, shares an idea involving a businesses communications platform she's putting together for clients while promotional products sales are slow...

On Thursday, April 16, OmniPrint International will host its Creators Boardroom Digital Conference 2020, featuring presentations on marketing, sales, business, social media, finance and more. The free event is designed to support screen printers, decorators and related businesses and help them thrive through these difficult times...

While many sales other than PPE have grinded to a near stop, we’re still processing quite a few orders daily and wanted to share with everyone what it is that we still see selling. As a manufacturer of badges and nameplates and small signage, we process orders for a multitude of different markets across the…

But in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson has an idea for the call you can make now to set up a future call.

Working from home, we’ve had plenty of time to ruminate on what makes a good promotional product. Not that we don’t do that every single day, but staring out the window at a quiet Philadelphia just puts us in a deep-thinking mood. This week's batch includes references to "Saved by the Bell," "That Thing You Do!" and the movie "Airplane!"...

These very different times call for a very different approach to my blog, Million Dollar Mindset. The main purpose of my blog is to help you develop the mindset to create your own million dollar success. Some of you were probably well on your way until a few weeks ago. Then our world changed in…

For events like SXSW, there’s no sense in throwing out all of the merch just because things didn’t happen as planned. With technology being what it is, a lot of these events that can move online have. In these instances, promotional products companies are still fulfilling their orders, just a little differently...

Late on a recent Thursday night, Matt Wagner started writing a song the way countless songwriters have done over the course of pop music history: He grabbed his guitar, strummed a G chord and made up some lyrics about getting referral business as a promotional products professional. By 5:30 a.m., he had finished "Promo Expert"...

Crystal D, St. Paul, Minn., the leading supplier of corporate awards and gifts, has promoted three employees and hired two additional employees. Evan Lodin has been promoted from production team lead to production manager. Linda Chang has been promoted from mask maker to production team lead. Matt Boyles has been promoted from order entry specialist…

BIC Graphic North America, Clearwater, Fla., has built a new resource page to help promo distributors during the current COVID-19 public health risks. The Resources for Continued Success page includes timely fliers, relevant shareable content and weekly updates on BIC Graphic business operations from CEO David Klatt. “While our top priority is the health and…