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...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Let your voice be heard
Do you have something to say? Do you believe that PPAI (Promotional Products Association International) would benefit by hearing your perspective? If you feel that you would like to get involved and associate with other professionals in the promotional products industry you need to check out this new site...
This is PPAI's new Volunteer Central Site. When visiting this site you will be asked to fill out your profile telling us about yourself. This will take about two minutes but once you do you will be "in the loop" with hundreds of other professionals who participate and volunteer in the association activities.
You will be able to learn about committees and action groups as well as task forces and projects that are ongoing at the association level.
Don't worry...filling out your profile does NOT mean that you are volunteering. All it means that you are registering to be in the database. This database where you tell us about yourself and your interests will be instrumental going forward in allowing us to determine the needs and wants of our membership.
It will allow you to learn about all the opportunities to volunteer, IF you are interested!
Volunteer Leadership is a wonderful thing. If you do it right I believe you will get back a lot more than you give.
Please consider going to this site and checking it out. Take the two minutes to plug yourself into the association and consider volunteering. There are all sorts of things you can participate in ranging from quick surveys to short projects that might involve a couple of conference calls over a few months. If you are really hungry for the involvement you can click to join some of the action groups or inquire about committee opportunities.
The key is to get yourself registered.
Thank you for taking action TODAY!
Dave
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