Don't miss this month's Tuesday Learning Lab designed to
increase your network and enhance your professional growth

What's Next For Our Industry?
Navigating Change, Advocacy and Opportunities

April 8, 2025
12:30 pm
Featured Speaker: Josh Ellis, PPAI

As regulations and trade policies continue to shift rapidly, PPAI and volunteer partners from across the country are advocating for the branded merch industry. Learn what’s on the agenda for the Association’s annual Legislative Education & Action Day event in Washington, D.C., how companies of all types are adjusting to change, and the ways you can get involved going forward.

Learning Outcomes:

• The latest data on industry sales
• Promo's key opportunities and threats
• How to tariff-proof your business and set client expectations
• Ways you can help advocate for your business and the industry

A 2021 addition to PPAI, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Josh Ellis brings two decades of journalistic experience to the Association’s media efforts. At PPAI Media, he oversees editorial coverage, including PPAI Newslink and PPAI Magazine, as well as the Association’s research, advocacy and public affairs efforts.

Don't miss this month's Wild Wednesday Webinar designed to
increase your network and enhance your professional growth

Stop, Drop, and Scale - 3 Ways You're Stunting
Your Sales and How to Overcome Them

April 30, 2025
12:30 pm
Featured Speaker: Charity Gibson, Paper Plane Coaching Co.

Are your sales at a standstill? Or maybe your sales are soaring, but things are starting to slip through the cracks? It doesn't matter if your company is small, mid-sized, or large - your ability scale relies on two things: People and processes.

In this webinar, you'll learn: 

• Exercises to help you determine who is doing what

• How they are doing it

• How much time - and ultimately money - it's costing you

• How to decide what to do next to help ensure that this year is your company's best year yet!

Bio: Charity Gibson is the founder and CEO of Paper Plane Coaching Co. - A consulting company that provides Fractional CMO work to the promotional products industry.  In her nearly 25 years slangin' swag she's learned a few things - like how to do things the right way, only by doing them the wrong way first time (and occasionally a second time just for fun ;) )  Throughout her career Charity has played on all of the industry playgrounds. She spent 16 years as a distributor working with Fortune 500 companies, created the one of the industry's first social media marketing companies, and spent 8 years as a supplier before returning to the distributor side of the industry as the CMO of one of the top 3 companies in the industry. She started Paper Plane to help companies of all sizes the gap between struggle and success. Want to connect with Charity? Visit her on IG @itsmecharityg or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charitygibson/