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 My workouts aren’t as frequent as they used to be, but I still find time for a run—not a long, carefree jog, but a quick 30-minute interlude from my otherwise crazy schedule. The results won’t be the same as my former training...
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 If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin, naturalist (1809-1882) There is a survival-of-the-fittest mentality that we have all been adhering to—unless, of...
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 Promo Marketing is now on Facebook and LinkedIn . Starting this month distributors and suppliers are going to have a great new place to make connections and find the industry contacts they need. Whether it's finding a sales rep for the ABC...
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 To begin on a slightly more melancholy note this week, we've had quite a few losses lately, haven't we? The reaction of the masses to the passing of an icon (and in this case, two icons) is always an interesting social study. Celebrity deaths...
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 Greetings loyal readers, We're finished with the July issue right now, and I thought it would be fun to share with you a little bit of my last few days in the office, which, until I started writing this week's blog, have been entirely devoted to...
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| 06/30/2009 |
Touchstone Acquires Triko Marketing
Cincinnati-based Touchstone announced it has acquired Triko Marketing, Cary, N.C. Triko Marketing's president and CEO, Peter Cromwell, will stay on with Touchstone as a senior vice president focusing on large account acquisition. “We are... |
| 06/30/2009 |
Gemline and Prime Line Complete Third Party QCA Audit
The Quality Certification Alliance (QCA) announced Bridgeport, Connecticut-based Prime Line and Lawrence, Massachusetts-based Gemline have completed third-party QCA Audits. Six of the 14 QCA founding members have now completed the independent... |
| 06/30/2009 |
PPAI Members Show Power In Numbers To Fight Bill
Promotional Products Association International's (PPAI) members have stepped out in force to oppose The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, U.S. S. 301, a Senate bill that could effectively ban distribution of promotional products to health-care... |
| 06/30/2009 |
Crystal D Graduates First Financial Peace Class
St. Paul, Minnesota-based Crystal D, a leading supplier of corporate awards and plaques, announced its first-ever class graduated from Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace Workplace Edition on June 15. Crystal D had 17 employees graduate from the... |
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Desktop Deluge WE’VE ALL BEEN there. Wandering slowly through the long, wide aisles of your local office megastore, sifting through shelf after shelf of office products, wondering what to buy. There are no-smudge pens and tri-colored pencils, stapleless... |
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Making Time 4236 B.C. FOLLOWING the 365-day cycle of the star Sirius, ancient Egyptians record the very first year. An auspicious day for humanity to be sure, but even more so for those in the calendar business. After all, without the star-gazing and... |
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Higher Education IT’S FLASHBACK TIME. Let’s revisit, if you will, one of the most special and overwhelming times in a young person’s life: the tour de universities. Running around the country through various hallowed halls of learning is enough... Read more...
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Turn Heads SAVILE ROW, IN London, is Mecca for sartorially minded men, from Winston Churchill to James Bond. The street is filled with clothiers that specialize in “bespoke tailoring,” or the custom designing of suits per patrons’... Read more...
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Do the Right Thing Top five worst excuses not to go green, go safe and go responsible: 1. It’s too expensive. 2. One person can’t make a difference. 3. It doesn’t fit my lifestyle. 4. The quality of the products just isn’t as high. 5. I... |
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