The following are well known industry trainers who can provide you with the skills and the knowledge necessary to advance your careers.
Cliff Quicksell
Cliff Quicksell & Associates
www.cliffquicksell.net
cliff@quicksellconsulting.com
Cliff has been involved in the promotional products and imprinted sportswear industries for over two decades, His experience spans from 15 years as a distributor, three years as managing director for franchise AIA and most recently as President and CEO of top supplier company Headwear-USA based in Frederick, Maryland. For more than 18 years, Cliff has been speaking, training and consulting regionally, nationally and internationally to associations and business groups on more effective ways to market themselves, their products and services.
David Blaise
Top Secrets of Promotional Products Sales
www.topsecretswebsite.com
mary@topsecretswebsite.com
What do the promotional product industry's first audio podcast, video blog and theme song have in common? They were all created by entrepreneur, author and business consultant David Blaise. David is a direct marketing and advertising expert with nearly twenty years experience in the promotional products industry. He currently provides consulting, coaching and training to many of the top names in the industry as a partner in Blaise Drake and Company, a full-time consulting firm that helps industry professionals to increase sales, improve profit margins and grow their businesses on a guaranteed basis. He is the author of Sledgehammer Marketing, Top Secrets of Promotional Products Sales, Getting Started and co-author of the industry best-seller The Power of Promotional Products. His weekly email newsletter on sales success has been a staple of the industry since 1998. For a complimentary subscription, visit his website.
Ted Davies
The Promotion Coach
www.thepromotioncoach.com
tdavies@paradigmpartners-inc.com
Ted has worked in the promotional products industry for over 26 years during which he has sold over $100 million in promotional sales. His career began in 1980 with Sales Marketing, Inc. (SMI). For 17 years he worked as a sales representative, then a sales manager. In 1998, Ted started Paradigm Partners, Inc. and in 2006, he launched a new division of Paradigm called The Promotion Coach. Ted’s easy-to-use can’t-afford-to-miss comprehensive materials will help to tap your full earning potential.
Rosalie Marcus
Rosalie Marcus, The Promo Biz Coach
www.promobizcoach.com
Rosalie@promobizcoach.com
Originally a teacher in inner-city Philadelphia, Rosalie began working in the promotional products as a side venture. As she realized the potential available in within the industry, she left her teaching job and began growing her business with Lasting Impressions, Promotional Products full-time. Within three years of doing so she was named one of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies in her region. She has now taken her career to a new level by combining her teaching, coaching, and business background to develop workshops and products and coaching programs to help promotional professionals grow their sales, increase their profits and work smarter.
Lisa Leitch
Teneo
www.teneoresults.com
lisa@teneoresults.com
Lisa contributes to a wealth of marketing, promotional and sales experience delivering results. She began her career over 20 years ago, as a National Advertising Manager buying promotional products and developing incentive programs. Lisa than moved to the other side of the desk selling promotional products and programs to many clients such as IBM, Daimler Chrysler, Hershey, Hiram Walker, and Cadbury Beverages to become one of the top million dollar achievers. Lisa was then promoted to Vice President of Sales for one of the largest promotional distributors.
Lisa is now the President of Teneo, - the Latin word meaning “to know, to understand, to master”. Teneo masters the connection of marketing and sales by working with sales teams to help grow their business to the next level to “work smart, sell smart – make great money, but most importantly live an incredible life!” Lisa is a regular speaker with PPAI, ASI and many regional associations.
Don Sanders
SellPromoProducts.com
www.sellpromoproducts.com
don@sellpromoproducts.com
Since 1981, starting with one catalog in a one-bedroom apartment, Don Sanders has sold more than $10 million dollars worth of promotional products at an average 43% profit margin. Along the way, he has appeared in industry publications more than 150 times. His written articles appear frequently in PPB Business, Counselor, Advantages, Corporatelogo, Promowear, and Identity Marketing magazines. He has won both Silver and Gold Pyramid awards from PPAI.
In addition, he has co-authored three books--the most recent being How to Sell Promotional Products, published by PPAI; he has also co-produced a documentary film entered in the 2001 Academy Awards. Sanders is the founder of SellPromoProducts.com, the industry's only free sales training site available to promotional products distributors.
Barry Hults
Hults Consultants
www.promoschool.com
barryhults@promoschool.com
Hults Consultants, the management consulting practice of The School for Promotional Marketing Inc., was established in 1996 to offer consulting, training and merger/acquisition services to the promotional products industry. Our consultants practice exclusively in the promotional marketing field and provide expert advice on the operations of industry firms. The Counselor Magazine in 2004 named Barry as one of the 50 most influential people in the industry in the past 50 years.