skucast

In this episode, we sit down with Stephen Holden, VP of Operations at Holden Brand, to talk not only about the legacy sales at Holden and his experience at launching an e-commerce platform, but also how his adventurous life outside of work, fuels his entrepreneurial spirit.

Joseph Sommer is a 29-year-old entrepreneur and the founder of Whitestone Branding, a boutique branded products agency, in New York City. In this episode, we chat with Joe about how this failure ended up shaping his success and charting a new path that led to significant growth.

How does collaboration fuel creativity? This is the subject of an epic conversation between Mark Graham and I and seven industry friends, including Denise Taschereau from Faireware, Stephen Musgrave from RIGHTSLEEVE, as well as Jasmine Keen, Alex Symms, and Pierre Martichoux from Chameleon Like.

In this episode, Mark Graham, commonsku's co-founder and Chief Platform Officer, sits down with RJ Hagel of Goldstar to discuss the obstacles and opportunities in marketing pens, growing beyond their staple products and much more!

In this episode, Mark Graham and Bobby Lehew continue the conversation about why e-commerce hasn't consumed the industry and yet how it has affected B2B buying habits. Join them for a discussion on the challenges why customers choose e-commerce over a traditional distributor's selling process, engaging the customer to resolve real business objectives and much more!

In today's episode of skucast we sit down with Monarch and Company's Yvonne Lyngaas Zeman, founder and CEO, and Anna Nguyen, COO and Account Director. Monarch and Company is a creative merchandising agency based in Chicago and Denver, that has grown from a 1-person company to a multi-million dollar distributorship. Today we discuss qualifying the right type of client to work with, moving from survival mode to focus and much more!

We continue our Supplier CMO Series with Julie Fritsch, the Vice President of Marketing at Starline Inc., a Top 40 Supplier and 2017 Distributor Choice Award Winner. Julie joins Mark Graham, commonsku’s co-founder and Chief Platform Officer, to discuss why she believes artists make the best marketers, marketing strategies for small promotional products suppliers and much more!

In this episode, we sit down with Pop! Promo’s Director of Sales Rory Young and Senior Account Executive Sarah Smith to consider a different perspective: Pop! Promos is largely comprised of millennials, and we wanted to explore what that looked like from a sales perspective and consider what it means to sell to the millennial market.

Gold Bond, Inc is a Top 40 supplier, multiple time PPAI supplier star winner, and multiple ASI distributor choice award winner. We sat down with Mark and Britney Godsey, leaders of the 70-year old company, to discuss their process for staying current on industry trends, how the company changed their marketing strategy and much more!

Adam Walterscheid is the CEO of T-Shirt Tycoon Solutions, Inc., a private label supplier located in Garland, Texas. We sat down with Adam to discuss the shape and story of his business journey, his perspective on the future of the promotional products industry and more!