Emma Ralphs is a strategist and copywriter at Butterfly Cannon, an independent, award-winning, sustainably-focused brand design agency, headquartered in London, specializing in aspirational brands across the world. Emma wrote an article, “From Tacky to Trendsetting: How to Create Covetable Brand Merch,” based on her research experience and work done for the exceptional Johnnie Walker merch campaign.

From protest merch to campaign merch to bands and brands, branded merch has become what one author calls a social signifier: From Tim Horton’s shop to UPS merch to Biden’s Dark Brandon mug and more. Plus, how branded merch is the perfect medium for what some are calling the Joyconomy.

Tune into today’s skucast as Joey shares his best tips from "Never Lose an Employee Again" and in January at skucon, he’ll be sharing some useful insights!

Today we talk with Steve about sales leadership, technology, and SanMar’s recognition by the Wall Street Journal as one of 2022’s best-managed companies alongside companies like Apple and Microsoft!

Brett Boake, whom many of you know, is the General Manager at Score Promotions, a team of over 50 dedicated promo professionals in the US and Canada. Brett is one of the industry’s most inspirational sales leaders, which is why it’s no surprise that this year Brett and the leadership team at Score Promotions, hired an in-house Performance Coach & Therapist, Yonah Budd.

Today, we chat with Craig about this astonishing growth, covering topics ranging from their new e-commerce academy, to tips on integrating new DCX employees with your team, the incredible cultural exchange happening between American and Filipino employees, plus, the new DCX + commonsku collab!

Today, Kirby and Bill join us on our show and next week Mark Graham and I will be joining Bill and Kirby on their show in a fun little crossover project, but for this episode, we wanted to get inside the head of these two leading industry thinkers to talk about the most innovative trends they are changing this industry for the better.

A sustainable idea factory, that’s the vision of a Quebec-based company called Kotmo. Founded by Céline Juppeau and her business partner Cindy Couture, Kotmo is now selling their vision into the US Market.

Frontier, based in Charlotte, NC is a private equity growth firm with $1 billion in active funds focused exclusively on software. Frontier Growth was listed on Inc Magazine’s inaugural list of “The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs,” a list of founder-friendly private equity firms.

Join us as we chat with commonsku co-founders Mark and Catherine Graham about this chapter in the commonsku journey!

“Making business a force for good,” that’s the purpose behind B Corp. And when our good friends Danny Rosin and Robert Fiveash, through their company Brand Fuel became B Corp certified, it’s as if they opened a door for our industry in a way that wasn’t quite possible.