Posts Tagged "community"

I read a recent article from Advantages Magazine that gave some really cool info on what customers are looking for from their ad specialty supplier. Like… “92% of buyers say their budgets for 2011 will stay the same”. Thats at least a promising sign of the future. The survey conducted by Advantages Magazine showed that 72% of buyers are looking for creativity from their distributors. Thank goodness for my degree in Advertising, Production and Design, whew! Of those sruveyed 26% will purchase directly from manufacturers, so anyone who can produce and manufacture products in house will stanbd a slightly better chance of aquiring and holding onto new customers, or old ones for that matter. The most effective advertising as chosen by the...

Look for RecordPrints at the show…. Let me start you off with a visual: me, 8 AM, freshman year, first semester, sitting in a required art history class. Not exactly the most fun situation to be in. I guess that’s one of the good things about growing up; you learn to appreciate certain things more. For me, one of those things is art. I would give anything to go back to my freshman year and actually pay attention and learn in my art class, but unfortunately I can’t. However, it’s never too late to start appreciating new things, so I intend on putting a lot more art into my life. In the past year, between friends from school and friends from home, I’ve come to love art. A lot of this probably has to do with someone I met this summer who is truly a...