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PHOTOS: Regional Leaders, Young Professionals Share Insights, Celebrate Successes

Along with professional development for volunteers and emerging pros, PPAI's Leadership Development Conference was highlighted by a Celebration of Achievement dinner.

Innovation

ERP Roulette: A Promo Firm’s Costly Search For The Perfect Fit

Show Your Logo, PPAI 100’s No. 94 distributor, has spent five years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to transition to a new enterprise resource planning system. Every time the Oswego, Illinois-based company comes close, an issue arises, and the process is abandoned. Coming out of the pandemic, the firm had a contract ready […]

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The PPAI Expo 2026 Preview

There’s a place where ideas spark … where the year’s biggest deals are born … and where the entire promotional products industry comes together. It’s a place that’s electric from the moment you walk through the doors – where every glance, every handshake, every display could be the start of something big. Welcome to The […]

Innovation , Inside PPAI

Technology Standouts For 2025

This year, PPAI awarded its Pyramid Award in Technology to nine industry companies in recognition of their achievement in e-commerce websites, mobile apps/mobile websites and web content/functionality. To determine the winners, each entry was evaluated by a panel of judges based on effective use of images, content relevance to the intended audience, ease of use […]

Opinion , Your Business

Work-From-Anywhere Essentials That Keep Teams Connected

Alice McCallaOwnerFully Promoted of Houston SE and Houston NEPPAI 240143, GoldHouston, Texas McCalla points to the Sport-Tek Sport-Wick Stretch 1/4-Zip Pullover as a go-to choice and one she’d like to receive herself. Offered in men’s and women’s styles with a wide range of sizes and colors, it’s versatile enough to fit just about anyone and […]

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PPAI Leaders Discuss Regionals’ Future During LDC Town Hall

Board Chair Denise Taschereau and President and CEO Drew Holmgreen pointed to opportunities to create pathways to leadership among volunteers, and why it benefits the industry everywhere.

Nov. 3, 2025
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Innovation

ERP Roulette: A Promo Firm’s Costly Search For The Perfect Fit

While Show Your Logo, PPAI 100’s No. 94 distributor, continues to search for the right system, its peers push ahead with tech upgrades.

Nov. 3, 2025
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The PPAI Expo 2026 Preview

The industry’s largest and longest-running trade show returns to Las Vegas on January 12 with new features and favorite attractions.

Nov. 3, 2025
Your Business

Merch Mode: Activated

In the digital world of esports and gaming, branded merchandise creates tangible connections.

Nov. 3, 2025
Innovation , Inside PPAI

Technology Standouts For 2025

These PPAI Pyramid Awards salute state-of-the-art achievements in technology that streamline the customer experience and result in superior outcomes.

Nov. 3, 2025
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Opinion , Your Business

Work-From-Anywhere Essentials That Keep Teams Connected

A distributor shares her favorite picks for keeping employees connected, engaged and supported both on and off the clock.

Nov. 3, 2025
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Chipply Puts People First And Results Follow

Rooted in real industry experience and built with purpose, Chipply is more than software. It’s a people-first platform, powered by a team of industry experts who continually seek a better way forward.

Nov. 3, 2025
PromoPro Daily , Your Business

6 Principles Of Effective Coaching

The best coaching doesn’t happen in formal training sessions, but in 1-on-1 conversations, daily check-ins and genuine feedback moments.

Nov. 3, 2025
Inside PPAI

New Member Spotlight: Sea Bags

A female-founded company turned a mission to keep used boat sails out of landfills into successful branding opportunities.

Nov. 1, 2025
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4 Million And Counting For The Future

This year’s class of scholarship recipients officially took the total contributions awarded by the Promotional Products Educational Foundation’s over $4 million.

Nov. 1, 2025
PromoPro Daily , Your Business

Beware These Mistakes With Unqualified Leads

Not all unqualified leads are dead and buried. Rather than writing them off, play the long game.

Oct. 31, 2025
Industry News

US Tariffs On Chinese Goods Lowered To 47% In New Agreement

Trump and Xi meet in South Korea and affirm a framework for a trade deal that may provide welcome stability for weary importers.

Oct. 30, 2025
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The PPAI Expo 2026 – the industry’s largest and longest-running trade show – returns to Las Vegas on January 12 with new features and favorite attractions.

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ERP Roulette: A Promo Firm’s Costly Search For The Perfect Fit

Show Your Logo, PPAI 100’s No. 94 distributor, has spent five years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to transition to a new enterprise resource planning system. Every time the Oswego, Illinois-based company comes close, an issue arises, and the process is abandoned. Coming out of the pandemic, the firm had a contract ready […]

Inside PPAI

The PPAI Expo 2026 Preview

There’s a place where ideas spark … where the year’s biggest deals are born … and where the entire promotional products industry comes together. It’s a place that’s electric from the moment you walk through the doors – where every glance, every handshake, every display could be the start of something big. Welcome to The […]

Innovation , Inside PPAI

Technology Standouts For 2025

This year, PPAI awarded its Pyramid Award in Technology to nine industry companies in recognition of their achievement in e-commerce websites, mobile apps/mobile websites and web content/functionality. To determine the winners, each entry was evaluated by a panel of judges based on effective use of images, content relevance to the intended audience, ease of use […]

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Choc Shock: Prices Soar, But Promo Has The Recipe For Resilience

Although Halloween sales have traditionally been as strong as Christmas sales for California-based distributor SuperLove Cookies, the small business scaled back on marketing this spooky season because no ghoul, goblin or ghost has been scarier than the cost of chocolate. Both the firm’s traditional and iced cookies include premium chocolate sourced from Guittard, a 157-year-old, […]

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