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Another week, another great slew of promotional products. From minor league promotions to concert apparel, it was (as always) a difficult task to narrow down my finds. But, I did my best, and here is this week's fave five...

Question: I have online stores. Do I need to collect sales tax on web sales? Answer: It used to be that you only had to collect sales tax in other states if you had some sort of presence or “nexus” in that state. Everything changed with the Supreme Court decision South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc.…

Buy a mirror. There are two kinds of people in the world. And you can learn a great deal by their responses to handling a misstep. Let’s say you are going on a walk and trip on a crack in the sidewalk. The first kind of person gets critical of the homeowner with the crack…

It’s time to blow up much of the nomenclature that is used by others—and by us—to describe what we do. But certain words keep cropping up, even within the industry. And they’re not the only ones that give us a bad rep. I want people on the outside to understand how creative and impressive everyone involved is. Here are a few terms to reconsider...

I might have to officially dub February the month of promotional products because I keep spotting amazing promos left and right. Honestly, it was difficult to even narrow my list down to five, but, readers, I did it. From musician merchandise to restaurant collaborations, here's what I've had my eye on this week. 1. Kacey…

What’s your reputation? How can you fix or improve it fast? About 30 years ago, Proforma had a reputation problem. We had been in business for 10 years, and the distributorship was growing fast along with our new franchise business model. Actually, our growth was a little too fast for our capital structure, resulting in…

Question: I wanted to know if I could have an employee off site do some entering of invoices without having full access to the other financial parts of QuickBooks. Answer: When you set up users in QuickBooks Premier, you can set up certain restrictions that limit the access of each user. This is a helpful…

Now that I've fully immersed myself in the AAF life (aka finally learned the name of the Stallions' quarterback), I feel that there's no better time to take a look at the promotional marketing efforts behind the league...

Question: Can I have SAGE Online integrate with QuickBooks Premier if my QuickBooks is in a cloud-based storage platform? Answer: The SAGE Online system integrates with QuickBooks well—saving time and effort; recreating orders, customers, vendors and items in QB without having to reenter the data. Unfortunately, at this writing, SAGE cannot integrate with QB when…

When I used to be heavily invested in music, teachers would often say, “The more you put in, the more you’ll get out.” This is true with my career, in my relationships and with my health. This is equally valid with regard to digital information. For example, the more online digital information I knowingly or…