Management

Proforma, Cleveland, hosted its 50th Rise and Thrive Webinar to help owners and their sales representatives optimize their sales and thrive through these challenging times. The webinar series hosted by the Proforma Pivot Teams is designed to provide the Proforma community with the expanded product knowledge, marketing and supplier resources and motivation to create more…

This week, the Senate passed a bill that would change the way small businesses can spend federal loans they received during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as extending deadlines relating to rehiring and loan forgiveness. Today, the president signed the legislation into law. The legislation, amends the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), giving small-business recipients the…

Altitude Group PLC, parent company of AIM Smarter LLC (AIM), has expanded AIM’s presence and programs to the U.K. with the launch of AIM Smarter Limited. AIM offers a membership model that provides benefits, resources and community to both distributor members and supplier partners within the promotional products industry. Through this expansion, AIM welcomed more…

  By now, we have heard more than enough of these words: COVID-19, coronavirus, social distancing and many more. I will tell you one more word I have heard enough of: excuses. I hear people blaming their low sales on the virus, on their customers being closed, on the fact they can’t make face-to-face sales…

After a successful three-year tenure that included the overseeing of a complete company rebranding, the introduction of numerous supplier and distributor services, and the development of an industry destination for content, PromoCorner and its president Bill Petrie have mutually agreed to part ways. Joel Moore, owner and CEO of PromoCorner, will serve as president going…

HPG Brands, Braintree, Mass., the parent company of Hub Pen Company, Debco, Origaudio, Handstands and more, announced today that it is once again officially open for business. “Thank you for enduring with us during these times of uncertainty and continuing to trust us with your business,” Trina Bicknell, senior vice president of sales for HPG…

Ask the Accountant… Question: I have been trying to load customers into QB Premier from an Excel file, but I keep getting error messages about duplicates. How can I fix that? Answer: Here’s the fix: QB Premier runs on lists. Once you enter data into lists, you can use that list entry over and over…

Proforma, Cleveland, announced Kimberly Fulford as its new product and PPE manager. In her new role, Fulford will report to CEO Vera Muzzillo. Fulford brings more than 20 years of business experience and success in sales, operations, distribution and marketing. During the last six years, Fulford has held various…

StrombergBrand announced that Richard Meth has joined the company as director of sales. Meth will lead StrombergBrand’s internal sales team, as well as multi-line sales representatives nationwide. Most recently, Meth spent 18 years as vice president of marketing and sales at Rainkist Umbrella Company...

Let’s face it, most folks have experienced some very tough times in their business and in their life over the last couple of months. Many have come face to face with some great loss—loss of sales, loss of income and loss of strategies that worked for years, even decades. Great loss creates grief and most…