In this episode, Mark Graham (commonsku's co-founder and chief platform officer) and Bobby Lehew (commonsku's chief content officer) share why a good economy can blind us to bigger opportunities, why sales-focused training needs to shift and why it is imperative, and much more!

In today's episode of #skucast, we sit down with Flywheel's millennial leaders Bart Simpson, Vice President of Client Development, and Matthew Nutt, Client Development Executive, to discuss how they're nearly doubling the size of their company for 2019, how they've found success with podcasting, and much more!

Molly Dietz, Marketing Manager of the Promotional Division of Strideline Socks, joins us to discuss her role and to share how the company’s retail and promotional divisions seamlessly intersect and reinforce each other, how being hyper-focused often creates the best marketing opportunities, and their plans for incorporating traditional marketing and trade shows into their marketing strategy.

We invited Elizabeth Segran, staff writer for Fast Company and whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Salon and more, to chat about her recent article on conference swag. Mark Graham and Bobby Lehew chat with Elizabeth about what motivated her to write the article, the impact of fast fashion on sustainability and its counterpart in promotional products, the need for transparency along the supply chain, and more.

In this episode, Jason Lucash, CEO, CMO, and Co-founder of Origaudio, discusses the marketing decisions that have led to Origaudio becoming one of the most original brands in the promotional products industry.

In this episode, we explore what this new era of collaboration looks like with Adam Walterscheid, CEO of T Tycoon and YourCo, and Ben Taylor the Chief Marketing Officer at BamBams. Adam and Ben share the story of a complex project that would become CoLab, a service designed for distributors to build a completely custom product collection that transcends traditional supply lines while sharing creative resources and channeling communication through one contact.

In this episode, Bobby Lehew sits down with Mark Graham, commonsku's co-founder and chief platform officer, as we chat with Memo Kahan about the highs and lows of his business journey and his thoughts on how the recession refined and focused their value proposition, what it takes to succeed in sales and the advice Memo would give to his past self or young entrepreneurs.

In today's episode, Bobby Lehew, the chief content officer at commonsku, Mark Graham, commonsku’s co-founder and chief platform officer, and Winston Lo, president of Creative Boulevard, explore this article and the potential ramifications but moreover, the opportunity this moment presents for many in the business.

With 10 million in sales, 22 employees, and 17 years in the business, the brother and sister team of Daniel Gardner and Carolina Junghans lead Nashville based distributorship Blink Marketing and for the last several years have experienced tremendous growth.

Bobby Lehew sits down with several attendees of #skucamp2018 to talk about what they were inspired by but more importantly, what they plan to change in their business moving forward!