Management

For employees who’ve reached noteworthy goals and employers who want to inspire more achievement, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: awards and recognition season. From November to January, companies will be giving year-end awards and deciding how to recognize employees over the next 12 months. If you plan, and educate your customers about…

In this week’s blog, Bill suggests a simple change that will make printing industry salespeople happy, wealthy, and popular.

As part of Print+Promo Marketing’s ongoing feature, Executive Perspectives, we get to know leading professionals in the print and promotional industry. This month, we interviewed Steve Stancic, president of Specialty Mailing, St. Louis. Here, he highlights the issues he’s monitoring, shares his company’s new capabilities and explains why solution-based approaches work...

Check out our conversation with Billie Staton, president of Staton Corporate & Casual, about how robust inventory allowed for double-digit sales growth, and how her company benefits from its family-like atmosphere.

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…

As part of Print+Promo Marketing’s 2022 Top Suppliers list, we asked some of the top-ranked…

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…

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 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…

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…