Promo Products
January 25, 2019 at 1:34 pm
HUB Promotional Group’s Hub Pen Company accepted the Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) Gold Pyramid Award at the PPAI Pyramid Award Celebration held Jan. 15, 2019 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, in conjunction with The PPAI Expo in…
January 25, 2019 at 1:27 pm
#LikeTheEgg #EggSoldiers #EggGang. Do those hashtags mean anything to you? If so, you were part of the weird Instagram phenomenon that got a picture of a brown egg to be the most liked image in Instagram history. And, of course, there is merch...
January 23, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Buying an album isn't just buying an album anymore. Even if you go the classic method and buy an album on vinyl or (gasp) CD, most artists these days have some sort of promotional tie-in to sweeten the deal, or at least make the whole thing more interesting to people who otherwise aren't buying it. That brings with a whole bunch of questions...
January 23, 2019 at 1:05 pm
Ozzy Osbourne chose to mark the occasion of his most infamous metal moment by releasing a promotional plush bat that, yep, has a detachable head. The branded plush, a callback to the iconic set in which Osbourne bit the head off a possibly still-living bat, sold out of its first run...
January 23, 2019 at 11:59 am
If you stopped into our Power Meeting happy hour or visited our booth at the PPAI Expo last week in Las Vegas, you might have entered one of our raffles. Well, now we can finally announce the winners!...
January 22, 2019 at 2:07 pm
Last week, Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, presented The PPAI Expo, the world’s largest and longest running promotion products industry trade show, with more than 13,000 promotional consultants from nearly 4,000 distributor companies and 30 countries in attendance. Promotional products industry professionals from around the world converged in Las Vegas to experience the…
January 21, 2019 at 2:10 pm
At the end of the last few PPAI Expos in Las Vegas, we've made it a point to catch up with Paul Bellantone, PPAI's president and CEO. The conversations cover his feelings about the show, usually as it's being broken down around us (as was the case this year, too), and tap into larger themes regarding the industry and the economy overall...
January 21, 2019 at 11:36 am
Given that he's had an ice cream flavor, a spider and a treadmill named after him, not to mention his healthy collection of awards and honors, one can safely presume that Stephen Colbert won't soon see his popularity dip. Americans often rely on humor to manage troubling times, and the U.S. federal government shutdown that…
January 18, 2019 at 12:58 pm
Wandering around the show floor and taking it all in is one of our favorite parts of the PPAI Expo. And as much as it might seem like aimless strolling, there’s actually a great deal of learning involved. Here are some of the biggest promotional products trends we saw at the show this year...
January 17, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Obviously, business owners, principals or businesspeople in general want to create a loyal customer base. That’s how their businesses stay afloat. But, how do you go beyond that? How do you create a customer base that can’t get enough of your products or services?...
