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Productivity Tools for Distributors – The Capture

Posted on June 19, 2012 by PromoKitchen Contributing Editor

Jen Vaughn is the Marketing Director for commonsku; commonsku is a next generation CRM, order management and social collaboration tool for the promotional products industry. Distributors are constantly being pulled in many directions at once. Quotes, research, RFPs, meetings, new products, order follow-up, ringing phones, and the inevitable fires to squelch can derail the best of daily to-do lists. I’m…

Why “Made in China” Isn’t As Bad As You Think

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Mark Graham

The Made in China debate in the promotional products industry confuses me. An article in a St Louis paper got me thinking about the sensationalist approach the media has towards our industry as it relates to the Made in China issue. While this article highlights the irony of promoting U.S. jobs by handing out Made in China carabiners, I…

The Facebook Hiatus

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Bobby Lehew

Two weeks ago I decided to take a Faceook hiatus and deactivated my Facebook account. (Those that know me well know that I have had a love/hate with Facebook since it’s inception). My reason for removing myself from the social slipstream? Purely attention deficit. I was spending more time reading status updates than reading essays or books. Now, I’m a…

Bite-Size Business Development

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Bobby Lehew

You know the old adage: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Do these phrases sound familiar? I wish I had time to focus on new business When things slow down I’m going to start calling on new business Next quarter, I’m going to call on one hundred new businesses a week This year, I’m focusing…

Erecting Firewalls to Protect Your Priorities

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Bobby Lehew

Admit it: you have work avoidance habits. We all do. Checking email obsessively, frequent social media monitoring, news consumption or simply chatting it up with coworkers, we all have idiosyncrasies we use to evade those hairy projects sitting on our desks (or staring at us from our email inboxes). In and of themselves, these activities are not bad but calculated…