We rarely, if ever, publish a blog or information that is completely self-serving. This is not part of our belief or practice as a business - we believe our success is built upon the success of those we work with and interact with on a daily basis.
Since we began tweeting five weeks ago, we have rapidly grown in our following through Twitter, and appreciate every single one. Our business practice has always been to reach out and assist those selling our products, using our products or developing creative solutions that have nothing to do with our products.
Our main product is a service, supporting our business associates and communities in building and developing their brand and generating interest and income through the promotional product industry.
We are able to do this through awareness and mindfulness of the industries we work in, monitoring trends, listening to our clients, listening to our employees, treating customers with respect, being humanistic, offering a level of transparency through social media and of course, laughter.
We are able to behave in this manner for several reasons. Clothpromotions Plus is a family owned company that treats all of employees with dignity and respect and maintains a culture of family through each and every position within our company. We believe in a lateral hierarchy. Each and every employment position is equally important. Without the sales department - there is no business, without the production department - the sales people have nothing to sell, without the operations people - the production and sales people would have no guidelines or procedures, without the cleaning staff - no one would have a pleasant work environment.
A vertical hierarchy is where the porter answers to the desk staff, the desk staff answer to the administrator who answers to the manager who answers to the area supervisor who answers to the vice president who answers to the COO. We certainly understand and follow a certain "pecking order," yet no employee is fixated on titles and everyone understands that their productivity impacts everyone else. This respect our employees share for each other allows us to convey this to our clients and business associates.
The backgrounds of our founders and operations people is diverse and knowledgeable in many areas. We have backgrounds in business, sales, branding, government, non-profit, health care, technology and psychology. Decades of combined education and experience intermingle daily.
I post, write and monitor this blog. After graduate school, I worked in mental health. With almost 10 years in the almost every facet of the psychiatric field, direct practice, fund raising and health administration world - I took my skills and background to the marketing and advertising world. Much of marketing is based in human psychology and sociological trends. It has been my training and career to monitor those trends and observe human behavior. I discuss this to not tout my experience or career history, but to validate our place in the advertising and promotional products realm.
We use educated and measured means to listen to the needs of our industry and to provide individual and mass information back. If this results in any growth and success of our distributors or their clients then we feel proud and accomplished. If this results in our own growth and success as a company, than we have more than done our job.
As a company, we incorporate advertising, technology, business and psychology backgrounds - as human beings, we incorporate communication, relationship building, listening and responding.
As you read our blogs, you will see how we incorporate our marriage of backgrounds. We will never posit ourselves as a company that simply believes we know what our customers want; we will be a company that is progressive in meeting the needs and wants of a growing customer base that demands individualized attention and knowledge of our market.
Clear vision with Clothpromotions.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Do Not Begin Your Day Until You Read This
On Time, Perception and Being Present
Two businessmen, each en route to important business meetings, have left their houses. Two business men walking down the sidewalk in early morning New York City. Each man wearing identical, brand new, Barney's suits, new leather shoes and a leather briefcase. Both men briskly walking to make it to their important business meetings as the sky opens up and begins to pour rain all over them.
In the rush to leave the house, neither man checked the weather nor took an umbrella with them. Now they are getting drenched, with 20 minutes to reach their appointments, no time to go back and change, and completely getting soaked in the middle of the sidewalk with no businesses or overhangs to gain cover. Barney's suits, leather shoes and leather briefcases getting ruined.
Eventually, one man's face turns bright red and is trying to hail any taxi going by or run into any business. He raises his fists to the heavens and begins to curse the rain, the clouds and God himself! He is furious and justly so. Perhaps more furious for not being prepared, although it may take a day to cool off and realize that.
The other man, also trying to hail a cab, looks up at the rain and smiles. He smiles, shakes his head, looks down at his watch and his clothes and thinks to himself, "well this is just swell." He begins to sing Singin' in the Rain to himself and jumps in a puddle.
Both men run into each other at the corner of the street, chasing the same taxi. They flag it down, nod in agreement to share and head off. To find they are going to the same place and in fact were meeting with each other.
Time, the suits, the taxicabs, the briefcases, the meeting place, the umbrella sitting next to their doors, and the rain itself - had no agenda to disrupt those particular businessmens' days. The rain did not choose who to fall on. Time did not choose to speed up or slow down for anyone. So what was the difference that lead one man to chuckle and sing and the other curse and fume?
Being present and perception.
As people we should take a moment daily, to step back and realize that we are only viewing the world through our own pair of eyes. We base our thoughts and feelings and reactions to a situation on our memories or our beliefs or predictions of the outcome. We rarely, as people, base our perception of a situation solely on what is exactly occurring as it occurs. Or being completely present and mindful.
Take moments to just smell the scents, touch the objects around you, realize their proximity to your body, listen to every sound around you, taste the food, inhale the air and look at the immediate surroundings in relation to your physical presence, right now.
Do not think about the time, what you must do tomorrow, what happened a week ago. Do not think about what you missed, or what you hope to accomplish. Do not focus on the demands upon you or wondering if you paid that bill. None of those things can be changed by your worry or thoughts or feelings alone.
Simply, take stock in the present and where you are and what you experience and what you see and what you can accomplish, right now. The issues you think about or worry about, will not leave if you stop concerning yourself with them.
The time you take to be present, will certainly assist you in being more mindful in accomplishing those tasks or correcting issues on your mind.
Clear vision with Clothpromotions.
Two businessmen, each en route to important business meetings, have left their houses. Two business men walking down the sidewalk in early morning New York City. Each man wearing identical, brand new, Barney's suits, new leather shoes and a leather briefcase. Both men briskly walking to make it to their important business meetings as the sky opens up and begins to pour rain all over them.
In the rush to leave the house, neither man checked the weather nor took an umbrella with them. Now they are getting drenched, with 20 minutes to reach their appointments, no time to go back and change, and completely getting soaked in the middle of the sidewalk with no businesses or overhangs to gain cover. Barney's suits, leather shoes and leather briefcases getting ruined.
Eventually, one man's face turns bright red and is trying to hail any taxi going by or run into any business. He raises his fists to the heavens and begins to curse the rain, the clouds and God himself! He is furious and justly so. Perhaps more furious for not being prepared, although it may take a day to cool off and realize that.
The other man, also trying to hail a cab, looks up at the rain and smiles. He smiles, shakes his head, looks down at his watch and his clothes and thinks to himself, "well this is just swell." He begins to sing Singin' in the Rain to himself and jumps in a puddle.
Both men run into each other at the corner of the street, chasing the same taxi. They flag it down, nod in agreement to share and head off. To find they are going to the same place and in fact were meeting with each other.
Time, the suits, the taxicabs, the briefcases, the meeting place, the umbrella sitting next to their doors, and the rain itself - had no agenda to disrupt those particular businessmens' days. The rain did not choose who to fall on. Time did not choose to speed up or slow down for anyone. So what was the difference that lead one man to chuckle and sing and the other curse and fume?
Being present and perception.
As people we should take a moment daily, to step back and realize that we are only viewing the world through our own pair of eyes. We base our thoughts and feelings and reactions to a situation on our memories or our beliefs or predictions of the outcome. We rarely, as people, base our perception of a situation solely on what is exactly occurring as it occurs. Or being completely present and mindful.
Take moments to just smell the scents, touch the objects around you, realize their proximity to your body, listen to every sound around you, taste the food, inhale the air and look at the immediate surroundings in relation to your physical presence, right now.
Do not think about the time, what you must do tomorrow, what happened a week ago. Do not think about what you missed, or what you hope to accomplish. Do not focus on the demands upon you or wondering if you paid that bill. None of those things can be changed by your worry or thoughts or feelings alone.
Simply, take stock in the present and where you are and what you experience and what you see and what you can accomplish, right now. The issues you think about or worry about, will not leave if you stop concerning yourself with them.
The time you take to be present, will certainly assist you in being more mindful in accomplishing those tasks or correcting issues on your mind.
Clear vision with Clothpromotions.
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