American Ad Bag

As you're reading this, I'm headed back from a great end-user event at Shumsky. The QCA Distributor Advocacy Council member gathered folks...

AIA Corporation, Neenah, Wis., honored suppliers at its National Sales Summit in Orlando, Fla.

Premier Promotional Group, Pittsburgh, presented various awards for 2013 outstanding efforts and results to members during its annual meeting in Tampa, Fla.

LinkedIn has added a new “click” feature that enables you to very easily “endorse” people for their expertise in the skill areas listed on their LinkedIn profile. A recent article from Social Media Examiner talks about this new feature and offers 6 Tips for Using the LinkedIn New Endorsements. Endorsements has been met with mixed reviews. But it does set the stage for additional dialogue on how social media connections turn into actual business relationships?

Fortune 1000 companies continue to focus on vetting their supply chains and requiring their partners to prove compliance. In order to meet these customer requirements, two more suppliers have begun taking the necessary, proactive steps to provide safe and compliant products. Woodstock, Illinois-based American Ad Bag and Ontario, California-based Otto International Inc. have applied to participate in the comprehensive compliance accreditation program developed by the Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional product industry's only independent, not- for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products.

The SAAGNY Foundation contributed to a fun-filled day of smiles, surprises and goodies for the children at Hilltop School in Rockland County, NY on August 8. Several members of the promotional products industry donated items to the event, which were handed out by SAAGNY volunteers.

Volunteers from The SAAGNY Foundation, located in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., spent Wednesday, July 18 at Happiness is Camping in Blairstown, N.J. This is the 12th year that the foundation volunteers participated in the camp's annual "Pirates Day" festivities.

Anyone who has been in our industry a while has a few client horror stories to tell. I am no different. I do like to think, however, that in every cloudy rant there is a lesson that can be learned.

Reusable tote and recyclable bags are the buddy film of the promotional industry: popular, reliable and guaranteed to be a blockbuster.

American Ad Bag, Woodstock, Ill. announced the company will continue its “Fixed Plate Program” for 2010.  American Ad Bag introduced the program in 2009 to help distributors give a quick quote on a project by allowing them to know plate costs up front.