The popular online marketplace Etsy has received backlash from its users for facilitating the sale of merchandise using the "Alligator Alcatraz" branding. The term refers to a detention center that Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently establ...

When you’ve worked hard to hire the best promo pros for your team, the last thing you want is to lose your top performers. Loyalty isn’t something you can assume, though. With average tenure falling below 4 years, your best people may be on their wa...

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https://www.youtube.com/live/_vsOUcHVVzoJust past the halfway mark of a transformative year for the promotional products industry, PPAI Media brought together a panel of industry insiders to help businesses understand and respond to the forces...

UPDATE: A 90-day extension of a U.S. trade truce with China appears likely, as negotiations between the two countries wrapped up in Sweden. The current tariff arrangement is set to end August 12.Just a few days before the August 1 tariff deadlin...

If you’re like many sales reps, you give up on prospects too soon. You leave a voicemail, send a follow-up email or 2 and then you move on. You assume they’re not interested or that another touchpoint will annoy them. This belief is so common that i...

As far as professional wrestling goes, there’s Before Hulk Hogan and After Hulk Hogan.Before the red and yellow-clad herculean powerhouse with the blond hair and horseshoe mustache flexed his 24-inch pythons on TVs across the United States, bran...

Halfway through 2025, the promo industry's year-over-year growth rate has gone in only one direction: downward. Technically, promo's sales revenue is still growing year-over-year, but that margin is becoming razor-thin and is being significantly out...

It’s easy to default to meetings out of habit. Every day, an estimated 56 million meetings are held throughout the U.S. Most of these meetings are unproductive, with 65% of attendees feeling like they’re wasting their time. While some tasks require ...