Brandon Mackay, MAS, Six Sigma Lean Certified, and the Owner and CEO/President of Snugz USA, earned his stripes the hard way: experience. A strong advocate for process improvement and employee development, Brandon delivered a brilliant and practical talk at skucon in Las Vegas on How Operational Excellence Fuels Profitable Growth, unpacking his experience as a lean certified organization and the lessons he learned along the way.

Be a brand anthropologist. Know yourself, know your breed. Those are just a few of the truisms that Renya Nelson, founder of Brand+Aid, shared with the skucon audience in Las Vegas where she delivered a talk on “How to Build a Kick-Ass Brand to Attract Kick-Ass Clients.”

At skucon in Las Vegas, Joe Drayer and Anita Emoff from Boost Rewards, led a session entitled "From Incentives to Engagement."

Joe Drayer is the Vice President at Boost, and prior to that, led Sales Strategy for LexisNexis. Since 2015, Joe has been a lecturer and instructor at the University of Dayton School of Business with a concentration on Organizational Behavior.

In this episode, Catherine Graham, President of distributor RIGHTSLEEVE and CEO of commonsku, spoke to an audience full of entrepreneurs at our skucon conference in Las Vegas, on the subject of prospecting.

Janie Gaunce started Grapevine Designs, one of the original, agency-minded distributorships, back in 2000. Since then, Grapevine Designs has been honoured as a “Best Places to Work” company by the Kansas City Business Journal and they consistently rank as one of the top “Women-Owned Businesses in KC,” and have garnered numerous other industry awards.

At skucon in Las Vegas, Scott Alterman (The Icebox) took the crowd on a wild ride through his crazy journey as a serial entrepreneur, sharing lessons learned on how to build a swag empire while evolving your team and transforming even your own role in the business.

What does it mean to be fiercely original? And how do you evolve, as a brand, to command the kind of clients and work that enable you to thrive at your most creative? These are the questions we explore with Frank Thompson, the wildly eccentric founder, President, and frontman for Planet Logo, an alternative branded merchandise and promotional products company headquartered in the coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina.

commonsku collections is a brand new in-app tool that allows suppliers to create beautiful collections of product that can be easily shared by a distributor with their customers. In this episode, Mark Graham, commonsku’s co-founder and Chief Platform Officer, and Samantha Kates, commonsku’s Vice President of Sales, sit down to share how collections can save distributors time and how this new tool can make sales happen quicker for both distributor and supplier.

Mark Graham, Chief Platform Officer, and Bobby Lehew, Chief Content Officer, sit down to discuss business podcasting, the why's as well as the how-to's.

In today's episode, we sit down with Justin Carter, founder of BRAND-ON!, to talk about how to activate the entrepreneurial dream by pursuing both the work and life that you want,