Trend Watch: NFT
NFT merchandise and NFT promotion are taking the world by storm. Read the article to find out how NFT merch is used in the promotional products industry
Trend Watch: Keep on Truckin’ with Trucker Hats!
Welcome to a new series covering all things trends, and how these trends impact the world of promotional products. Once a month, we’ll deep-dive into a current trend, share examples from the retail space, and inspire you to create beautiful merch for your next project!
Trend Watch: It’s Green Season!
Welcome to a new series on the commonsku blog covering all things trends, and how these trends impact the world of promotional products. Once a month, we’ll deep-dive into a current trend, share examples from the retail space, and inspire you to create beautiful merch for your next project!
Episode 220: “The What, Why, and Wow of Marketing!” with Shelley Williams (VP Marketing, SanMar)
From pixie dust to promotional products, Shelley Williams has tackled a wide range of creative and marketing challenges over her 20+ year career. Shelley joined SanMar as the VP, Marketing in January 2020.
Episode 204: Marketing is the New Sales (skucamp Panel)
During the past year, there’s been a huge shift in the sales world with marketing playing a key role. Marketers are now the new Sales Makers.
Episode 200: What Fundraising Teaches Us About the Power of Promo
We’re learning lessons from the world of fundraising and we have three guests on the skucast from two different organizations.
3 Simple Things You Can Do to Prep for a Mind-Blowing skucamp Experience
We’re only a few days away from skucamp in Palm Springs and because we want you to make the most of your time, we created a shortlist of the three simple things you can do to prep for an amazing experience.
2 Shifts You Should Make in Your Marketing to Grow Existing Clients (Part 4)
If buyers now engage with us largely through digital channels, the face-to-face selling model is outdated and ineffective.
Is Your Marketing Ready for the New Buyer Surge? (Part 3)
The current tidal wave is material, the next tidal wave is digital.
2 Vital Laws of Attraction Missing From Your Marketing (Part 2)
Given the street-cred of branded merch, there has never been a better time to be in the business. Our category, long a second-cousin to other forms of advertising, has sky-rocketed past other forms of advertising when it comes to acceptance, celebration, identity, and reform.
Marketing is the New Sales (Part 1)
One danger in running a business post-pandemic --alongside massive supply chain issues-- is that we’re overwhelmed handling critical HR challenges while swatting away supply chain problems project-by-project.
4 Terrible Email Marketing Practices and How to Fix Them
Distributors use email because it is an efficient way to communicate. However, when email is used the wrong way, it can lead to all sorts of challenges for the sender.
3 Easy Steps to Improve Your Digital First Impressions
Just as you’d pay attention to how you looked for an in-person client meeting, you should pay attention to the digital face that you’re presenting to clients and prospects.
Episode 187: Social Media Secrets from the Pros
Today, we’re chatting with a super panel of social media thinkers, three of the most influential social media managers working for three of the most influential brands in the industry: Aly Brunton, Taylor Borst, and Melissa Newman.
Inventory Shops Have Made a Comeback in 2021, Here’s Why (Inventory Series, Part 1)
Inventory was once an ugly word to customers. But times have changed and inventory has made a comeback.
Do Your Sales & Marketing Tools Power 10x Growth? (Modern Office Series, Part 4)
Have you ever been cruising down the road, brain in full focus mode, deeply lost in thought, and suddenly you hit a speed bump that “pops up out of nowhere?”
Does Your Marketing Make Sense?
Kelli Bernd and the whole group over at INM Marketing Group create really smart marketing, which is why we were so thrilled to feature Kelli and her team’s work during our recent skummunity live event on the topic, “Does Your Marketing Make Sense?”
Episode 170: "Do Less and Obsess" with MarketingProf's Ann Handley
In today’s episode, Ann Handley empowers us to escape marketing mediocrity and she compels us to do work we’re proud of. Ann is also our opening keynote speaker at skucon on January 7th where she will share “The Big, Bold, Brave New World of Content and Storytelling.”
Episode 147: Mastering Kitting Projects with Matty Toomb of Profill
In this #skucast Matty Toomb, Vice President at Profill, discusses the important aspect of campaign kits: creative, design, messaging, packaging, building an unboxing experience, freight, plus, how to price these complex projects.
The Only Marketing Strategy You Need to Supercharge Your Sales (Marketing Series, Part 4)
ABM might not be a sexy name, but if you hang with us for a minute, you’ll find out that it is the single most effective approach to ensure your B2B marketing grows sales.