Promotional Products 101

Since 1998, I've been selling some promotional products but my main business was trophies & engraving. It was a 'nice' business with all customers buying gifts, rewards, recognition items, etc and always pleased with their choices. It was limiting due to the machinery and staff which both had to be maintained. We also had the limits of working from our home. The garage was a bee-hive of industry until Feb 2007. The operating business has been sold and moved to a business location and I'm sure they will have a great time with it and continue to be successful.

That's history though, now we have assembled a list top suppliers of quality promotional products, set up accounts, collected the sales catalogs an samples and have been spending time with my favourite pastime, networking. I'll speak about networking in another message.

Already there have been satisfied customers of the new www.winningfairways.com business and lots of saying they'll keep our information. There's a lot to learn about when you get into a new business. Who would have known all the styles, fabrics, attachments, sizes, shapes, colours, adornments, closures, history, etc of ball caps. Wow, that's just ball caps. What about the rest of the 800,000 items available to the industry.

I'll be back with more interesting and hopefully educational stuff with Promotional Products 101