The State Of Responsibility 2024

Back in 2007, when flip phones were snapping shut for the last time and MySpace Top 8s decided social hierarchies, T-Pain’s verse on the 2007 hit “Low” had everyone singing about “Apple Bottom Jeans” and those unforgettable “boots with the fur.” Since then, the six-time Grammy winner has been flooded with tags and memes asking […]

Proforma (PPAI 196835, Platinum), PPAI 100’s No. 3 distributor, has announced that Michael Roney has rejoined the company as its new senior vice president. Roney previously served as senior director of product development at Proforma before departing in 2023 to launch a mobile app startup. He developed the platform behind Scout, a software that now tracks […]

PPAI technology partner SAGE has announced that 1,128 supplier and decorator companies have earned A+ and A rating awards for 2026 based on an aggregate of their distributor ratings collected through SAGE Workplace, the company’s product management and business management solution. This Year’s Honorees The SAGE rating system was developed to empower distributors to make well-informed […]

A sales process is essentially a repeatable set of steps sales reps follow to turn leads into customers. In the past, that process may have run more on instinct and simply remembering who to call next. Today, though, things look different. Buyer journeys aren’t as linear, and AI is reshaping every interaction. Because of these […]