SnugZ USA

More than 400 Geiger sales partners, suppliers, associates and professional industry speakers attended this year's National Education Conference in Phoenix, an annual event that Lewiston, Maine-based distributor Geiger hosts.

Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, old and new, are in print this week. While style and subject are in stark contrast, both are worth a read.

Make sure to sign up for tomorrow's free, one-hour webinar "Product Safety: Not just the right way to do business, the WAY to do business."

We've written in this space before about the unique challenges faced by a product when a celebrity endorser goes off the rails. Now, as Jessica Alba's Earth-friendly Honest Company is just about to launch in Target stores, there are new reports that some products imported by the company from China have been previously blocked by the FDA as unsafe.

When I worked in the corporate world, I worked for a Fortune Global 500 company. When it came to sourcing brand merchandise, protecting the corporate image by mitigating damage from an unsafe promotional product was the only way to do business. At the time, at least in my mind, safety was pretty much a black or white issue. It was either safe, or it wasn't. Since then, I've come to understand that product safety is more like a thermometer.

In this week's grand spectacle of glorious video combat, new champion Quality Logo Products faces off against returning champion SnugZ USA.

In this week's video battle, Quality Logo Products tries to dethrone ePromos with maybe the greatest ad for ping-pong balls ever created.

The Howard Alan Blum 5K Run benefiting the SAGGNY Foundation will be held in conjunction with Expo East May 21 on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in New Jersey. Suppliers and distributors unable to attend Expo East can still participate by taking part in the Howard Alan Blum Virtual 5K Run.

Workaholics. Office Space. The Office. All modern office-themed TV shows and movies lauded for their workplace accuracy, but also all with sets missing one major detail—promotional products.

This week's video battle pits current champion Bag Makers against a springtime snowball fight for the ages, courtesy of ePromos.