More and more companies—from Fortune 1000 corporations to local organizations—are only interested in vendors who understand the importance of safety and compliance, and who insist on it as it relates to every component of the manufacturing and import process. Additionally, the public is demanding more accountability and greater positive impacts on society from the businesses…
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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…
Read MoreIn ‘Back to the Future Pt. II’ we were all promised that, in the future (which is now the past, actually), we’d all have self-lacing shoes. It turned out to be a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Nike made the shoes Marty McFly wore in the year 2015 as a promotional product. As these…
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Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, announced the Specialty Advertising Association of California (SAAC) has selected PPAI to provide it with management services. SAAC will continue to work under the stewardship of its Board of Directors and will maintain autonomy and a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit status as a professional trade association. A dedicated PPAI representative…
Read MoreThe 2018-19 season has not proven pleasant for the Memphis Grizzlies, who find themselves way out of the playoff hunt in the NBA’s Western Conference. The organization had been hoping to inject a little levity into what has been a sloppy campaign by issuing a bobblehead featuring rookie sensation Jaren Jackson Jr. last Friday. However, his…
Read MoreGirl Scout cookies have arrived! One Colorado-based Girl Scout along with her mom created a clever way to market these delicious cookies. They replaced the Somoas cookie packaging with a shirtless image of ‘Aquaman’ actor, Jason Momoa, and called them ‘Momoas’.
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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…
Read MoreAs the president of BreakingT, Jamie Mottram revels in helping the public don sports apparel that reflects undying allegiance to a team, with 25 franchises across the athletic world relying on him and his company to stoke their fan bases. One such rabid set of devotees calls Raleigh home and roots religiously for the Carolina…
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American Solutions for Business (ASB), Glenwood, Minn., announced that it is officially using PromoStandards to streamline its e-commerce platform to integrate with industry suppliers. “We are expanding to allow suppliers to load our Product Information Management (PIM) system with product information and media content to be used for feeding to our e-commerce sites,” said ASB…
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There’s no greater feeling of buyer’s remorse than when a product arrives looking completely different than it did online. It might be a different size, the color might be a little off in real life, or it could arrive broken. In the case of Fanatics’ Overwatch League apparel, which it recently received the rights to…
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