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Jul 13, 2022

Converting Your Promotional Products Business to QuickBooks Online? Here’s How To Make It Easy

For many who are making a platform change -particularly an accounting platform change- all the worrying and fretting about the change often weighs heavier…

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Jul 06, 2022

Trend Watch: NFT

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…

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Jun 22, 2022

10 Tips to Recession-Proof Your Promotional Products Business

You’ve developed a vital muscle over these pandemic years, probably the most important muscle a business can flex: the muscle of resilience.

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Jun 01, 2022

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…

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May 11, 2022

10 Traits All High-Performance Promo Teams Possess

skucast - the official podcast of commonsku · 10 Traits Of High Performance Teams

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Dec 08, 2021

Swag vs. Merch: Why Nobody Calls it Swag Anymore (and That's A Good Thing)

(This article was original published in Dec, 2022 but was updated May 2023). Nobody calls it “swag” anymore.

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Jun 11, 2019

How to Write Dynamic Job Descriptions That Actually Work (Guide to Hiring, Part 1)

It is a job seeker’s market right now. Good talent is hard to find. But if you “treat your recruitment process like a sales process,” (as Kathleen Votaw…

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Feb 22, 2019

How Much Should I Pay a Salesperson? (Building a Salesforce Part 2)

In our previous post, we talked about getting ready to scale your sales team and in today’s post, we’ll look at the actual numbers we have to work with to…