Friday Rewind
99designs, based in Australia and backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners, boasts a network of freelancers in logo design, custom apparel, custom printed materials and a variety of other advertising and design services. The platform allows customers to hire a designer directly or open a brief and select from ideas submitted by designers...
We got our first full look at the Apple mask, a face-covering the company developed specifically for its retail and corporate employees. Like other Apple products, it's meticulously branded and packaged, and has some original design elements that set it apart from competitors. Say what you will about Apple, but it has branding down to a science...
Getting a steady flow of new clients is vital if you have set high sales goals for your business. Despite the challenging times we are in right now, this can still be achieved if you have a systematic prospecting method. It not only gives you a repeatable process, but also allows you to train others when you're ready to delegate. Here are 10 steps to a proven prospecting system...
Amazon is set to significantly expand its digital and on-demand printing capabilities with a commitment to buy $400 million in digital printing products from Kornit. Separately, Amazon plans to open a new Merch by Amazon facility in Phoenix as the company's e-commerce sales soar...
Members of the Proud Boys, the far-right organization, are known for wearing black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirts typically seen at rallies or protests. In response, Fred Perry said it will stop selling the shirts in North America. It may not matter, as Tuesday night's presidential debate led to new opportunities for the Proud Boys to design shirts of their own...
The quest to see what a beer can can’t do has now yielded the first “Cantenna,” which Miller Lite says is “the only reception device on the market that is great tasting and serves up football straight to fans’ living rooms.”
A&P Master Images pitched the idea to use a trendy screen print technique to bring a customer’s hand sketch to life. The product was such a hit it evolved into an online company store for fulfillment and future business with the client on other projects...
A Utah-based distributor is accused of presenting himself as a 3M representative and claiming to have millions of N95 masks for sale. John Anthony Taylor, owner of Positive Marketing LLC and Wasatch Promotional Products in Park City, reportedly claimed to have access to one billion 3M N95 masks, which raised eyebrows...
A promo distributor was the victim of a scammer who ordered hundreds of T-shirts totaling more than $3,000, only to issue and receive a chargeback once the T-shirts were in their possession. In an email to Promo Marketing, Theda Furlonge, owner of TAF Promotions in Colorado Springs, described the scam...
A Fully Promoted franchise owner has found a clever way to not only enforce safe practices at in-person events, but do it in a way that doesn’t inconvenience attendees. Using color-coded bracelets, Fully Promoted of St. Charles gave people at the St. Charles, Illinois, Chamber of Commerce a way to nonverbally communicate their level of…