skucast

With more than twenty years of experience in the apparel industry's retail, wholesale, and manufacturing sectors, Jerry Wheeler brings a unique perspective to the business. In 2008 he founded EcoCentric Brands, a sustainability consultancy built on the premise of an integrated bottom line that equally values human, natural, and financial capital.

Today, we will identify four essentials missing from your plan. Join us for our next installment in this series, where we’ll unpack the first one: strategy. We’ll bring you interviews, stories, and lessons from the trenches, from those who have learned to rise above and jump light years ahead.

Tom’s an ultra runner, someone who runs 50, 100 mile races for the challenge of it. Tom is the founder and CEO of 1-800-TSHIRTS and Envision Custom Screen Printing and Embroidery, an Inc. 5000 company. Tom is also the co-founder of Dimensional Brewing Company, a micro-brewery in Dubuque, Iowa,s and he has served on many notable boards and non-profits including a foundation Tom and his wife Amanda started, the Rauen Family Foundation, with a mission to giving back to the community.

In January, we traveled to Las Vegas to host skucon and early the next morning, Rob Spector, President of Spector and Co, treated us to a tour of the new facility. But this episode isn’t just about a factory tour. Part of our team: Mark Graham and Dave Shultz and I, joined Rob and his VP of Manufacturing, Juan Martinez to view the progress and also, understand how a Montreal-based company considered many different avenues for growth.

In today’s episode of the skucast, we’re bringing you a live session recorded at skucon 2023, “CRO Secrets to Driving Sales Success.” Our panel is hosted by Catherine Graham, commonsku’s CEO, and our guests are Trina Bicknell, CRO of HPG; Sam Kates, Chief Sales Officer for Spector and Co.; and Holly Brown, Chief Revenue Officer at Polyconcept.

In today’s episode of the skucast, we’re bringing you a live session from skucon 2023, recorded just this past Sunday, and it’s called The Tipping Point: In three, brief 10 min interviews, we’ll talk with three distributors who have each experienced a turning point in their business, we’ll uncover the challenges they faced, the obstacles they overcame, and the tipping point that led to their growth.

Tom Rector (Founder and CEO) and his team at ScreenBroidery grew over 143% from 2021 to 2022, and along the way, they created a pretty special experience: A Shark Tank Experience bringing together clients and suppliers.

Today, we talk with Tom about their phenomenal growth, his advice for entrepreneurs during uncertain economic times, and a little something he calls, “Storytelling Land.” Join us!

Today’s episode is all about AI and, more specifically, the phenomenon of chatGPT. Are new emerging technologies like chatGPT threats or opportunities? Will deep learning tools replace consultative salespeople in the promotional products industry? Will tools like chatGPT disrupt traditional search methods like ESP and Sage? Join us as we explore the future of AI and chatGPT for promo!

Whether you are a team that is in-person and at the office 100% of the time or whether you are a hybrid team or completely virtual, we are all figuring it out: trying to find the best way forward to work on strategy together while maintaining a strong culture

The supplier of the future is working –right now– to create this very catalyst for growth. And we’re not talking to the wonderful technologists who are behind the scenes making these changes possible, we’re talking with the front line sales team who sees this change as the new leverage for sales growth.