New RRN Series: Conversations With Distributors

Promotional distributors play an increasing role in the world of incentives, rewards and recognition. This series sponsored by Partners for Incentives highlights distributors active in selling incentive, recognition, and gifting programs using brands.

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This RRN series, launched earlier this year Kevin Dovel, CEO of Proforma Promographix, Carolina Beach, NC, features interviews with distributors on how they go about developing and maintaining new business in the world of incentives, rewards, and recognition.

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The program, sponsored by Cleveland-based Partners for Incentives, is co-hosted with Roger Thomas, Vice President, Partners for Incentives, Cleveland. PFI is an incentive company that sells exclusively through promotional distributors and related marketing and human resources partners. The show is designed to demonstrate how distributors and incentive companies can work together to serve the hundreds of thousands of mid-size and larger companies overlooked by most of the major incentive, recognition, and loyalty firms.

The upcoming schedule includes:

June 18, 1 pm ET: Michelle E. Vedros, Principal Crown Marketing, Mathews, LA. Click here to register.
July 17, 1 pm ET: Bill Ball, Principal, TCB Specialties, Texas City, Tx. Click here to register.
Aug. 20, 1 pm ET: Terri Millmeyer, CEO, Creator of Exclusive Originals, a Halo distributor. Click here to register.

In concise video shows summarized in RRN feature articles published in RRN weekly and on RRN at RewardsRecognitionNetwork.org, guests will discuss:

The nature of their promotional products business and how it is changing.
The types of companies do they do business with and departments—sales, marketing, HR?
What types of incentive, recognition, gifting or related programs using brands as rewards do they get involved in.
How they determine when an organization is a candidate for what type of program; what types of questions do they ask.
What types of support do clients require in terms of program design, communications, technology, and measurement.
Why do they work with an incentive company rather than do this yourselves?
What do they expect in terms of support from your incentive company partner?
Do you they this to be a growing part of your business. If so, what areas of the business and why.

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