The promotional products industry is a crazy business. Being ultimately responsible for all sales and recruiting for The Vernon Company, a 110 year old industry sales leader I have seen a lot of things in my 20 + years in the business. We have often said that we could write a book. Here I make an attempt at telling some of the things I have to deal with day in and day out. As you will see it gives you a strange perspective on the business that we love so much...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Fun, Learning and Recognition
At the recent PPAI Expo in Las Vegas some of our account executives found time for a little fun during a break from working the trade show floor. In this photo (above right) our Western Regional Sales Manager, Stephanie Critchfield was found doing the bump with a bigger and more formidable opponent during the PPMN Mixer.
Later during the show we had a group of ten of us from Vernon Sales Promotion attend the PPAI Awards Banquet. Our very own, Ms. Tonia Ho (San Francisco, CA) was recognized as a winner of a Pyramid Award for eco friendly promotion of a lapel pin made of recycled plastic. Tonia and her husband Ken, along with the rest of the Vernon sales team in attendance were very proud.
Tonia will also be recognized later when Vernon holds their National Sales Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL. At this time we expect to have 175 salespeople and guests at this three day event. Fun and sun is in store for us all.
Industry top suppliers, Bic and Hit will be hosting tours of their facilities during day one of the meeting. They will follow that up with our very own dinner cruise on the Gulf of Mexico.
With our temperature in Des Moines currently at - 10 degrees the Florida beaches sound pretty good to me.
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It was a wonderful evening Dave! Thanks for having Jeff and I attend the dinner. Tonia did a great job and earned her award.
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