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Nov 10, 2017

Dreaming the Possible: How to Set and Attain Your Personal Sales Goals for 2018

Are you a possibilitist? Not a pessimist. Not even a realist. But a dreamer who imagines possibilities? That’s what goal setting is: determining…

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Nov 03, 2017

Are You Prepared to Scale? How a Systems Change Can Ignite Sales Growth

Reading time: 3:56 You’ve gone as far as you can. Sales have either plateaued, declined, or are slowly rising. Too slowly rising. At this point in your…

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Oct 11, 2017

skucamp "Starter Steps" to Making Big Changes

Headed home from #skucamp super bummed it’s actually over. It was an amazing event with so much #love poured into it. Thank you @commonsku — Ben Taylor…

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Sep 22, 2017

Ten Tips To Help You Ace 2018 (and Get the Most out of skucamp!)

As I write this, we’re just days away from our inaugural skucamp event held at the iconic Ace Hotel in Palm Springs! Our primary purpose at skucamp is to…

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Aug 10, 2017

8 Secrets the Pros Know About Protecting Your Bottom Line and Maximizing Your Profit (The Path to $10 Million, Part 7)

It happens to all of us at some point in our promotional products career: you finally convert that hard-to-reach prospect into a bonafide customer … only…

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Jul 28, 2017

The Craft of Renewal: 6 Ways to Revitalize and Refashion Your Brand

Reading time: 7 min We arrive in Salt Lake City on a mission: to discover how in the hell a 30-year old lanyard company, within an old and commoditized…

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Jun 29, 2017

Unvarnished and Unconventional: Bold Ideas on How to Build a Better Promotional Products Support Team (The Path to $10 Million, Part 5)

Reading time: 5 minutes “Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth,” wrote businessman and troubadour Roger…

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Jun 22, 2017

4 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Promotional Products Salespeople (The Path to $10 Million, Part 4)

Exponential sales growth requires recruiting, getting the right people “on the bus.” The phrase “on the bus” comes from Good to Great by Jim Collins, a…

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Jun 07, 2017

The 5 Stages of Business Growth (The Path to $10 Million, Part 3)

How do you get from $500,000 to $1 million in sales? How do you grow from $1 million to $3 million? What does it take to get to $10 million? We’re…