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6 Secret Habits to Boost Creativity While Traveling for Work
November 17, 2015 at 8:04 pm

Traveling for work doesn't have to be a draining experience with back-to-back meetings. There are lots of opportunities to enhance your creativity. Recently, I asked colleagues working in health care, fashion, PR and education this question: "How do you spark creativity while traveling for work?"...

Record Number of Shipments Predicted This Holiday Season
November 10, 2015 at 8:28 pm

While package carriers were unable to deliver all holiday packages in time for Christmas in 2013, they achieved a better outcome in 2014 and hope to continue their successes this holiday season, which is forecasted to have a record-breaking number of deliveries...

How One Laid-Off Worker Over 60 Beat the Odds, Found New Job
November 3, 2015 at 3:56 pm

By almost any measure, the odds were against Bob Rohrig after he lost his job as an account manager for a printing and direct mail company in 2011. He was nearly 61 years old. The commercial printing industry was, and still is, in decline. The unemployment rate in Connecticut was above 9 percent...

Polyconcept North America Launches New Time-saving Website Features
November 3, 2015 at 4:14 pm

Polyconcept North America (PCNA), Pittsburgh, has introduced enhanced online inventory search tools for logged-in users to make locating the products distributors need for projects faster. Once logged in, a distributor can use the new inventory search filter on any search on PCNA’s website...

To Manage Sales, You Must Manage Sales Leads
October 27, 2015 at 6:16 pm

“Why,” I was asked, “must you manage sales leads in order to manage sales? Sales lead management is a marketing function, isn’t it?” It was with a slight hesitation that the sales manager added the second sentence...

PPAI Announces Promotional Products Pioneers
October 20, 2015 at 5:53 pm

Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, recently announced its inaugural Promotional Products Pioneers. The 2016 Promotional Products Pioneers are Advertising Specialty Institute Chairman Norman Cohn...

If You Don't Build Relationships, Nothing Else Matters
October 20, 2015 at 5:58 pm

A coaching client of mine, Nate Wadsworth, has the busiest schedule of any entrepreneur I know. He runs a highly successful real-estate business, a forestry business and has a family as well. Last year, he embarked on another challenge: running for office...

Discount Labels Expands Customized Label Printing Capabilities
October 13, 2015 at 5:45 pm

Discount Labels, New Albany, Ind., recently purchased and installed a new HP Indigo 6800 digital press. The addition of the new press has expanded the digital offering of Discount Labels, bringing the total to seven digital presses...