Boundless Network

Unleash your 1%

In the news this past year, we were introduced to the 99%ers and the 1%ers to describe people by their level of success. I found characterizing (and candidly villainizing) people by percentages somewhat comical because if you ask most people, they innately want to be the best they can be: raise the best family, be [...]

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Culture is King

Culture for successful companies is the secret sauce that propels their business to greatness. My favorite company that I believe sets the tone for culture is Southwest Airlines. Herb Kelleher was awesome and says it like this: “For those of us at Southwest Airlines, the link from Culture to financial health is apparent. When our [...]

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A cautionary tale

The smell of change is in the air in the promotional products industry. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve heard me say a thousand times that the industry will change more quickly over the next five years than the previous 20, thanks to technology advancements and increasingly higher client expectations. Unfortunately for [...]

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Yesterday I was asking my little girls, Ally (6) and Katie (3), what they want to be when they grow up. This is a game we play every so often—it’s my way of checking in and seeing if my parenting has any impact their perspective on life. Katie, my little firecracker, told me she wanted [...]

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The Climb to #1

In sports or business, striving to be number one is important. One of my biggest frustrations is seeing how we’ve become so soft with our children, a society where everyone is a freaking winner. Real life doesn’t work that way. Much to my wife’s dismay, if you ask my 6-year-old about second place, she will [...]

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New $5 Million Investment in Boundless

The vision of Boundless Network was conceived more than 10 years ago, with the goal of being #1 within the $20B promotional products industry. The company was launched in 2005, and it’s hard to believe we’re already four years into this. Reflecting on those years, I’m certainly pleased with our progress–but not satisfied. We have [...]

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I’m proud to welcome PromoCorp to the Boundless team!

Great news! I’m excited to announce that Boundless has welcomed PromoCorp to the team, our second Virginia-based distributorship to join us in the past six months. PromoCorp has been around for close to a decade and is among the top 3 percent of distributors in the industry. I’m happy to welcome Larry Ledoyen, Sean McColl [...]

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A Prescription to Avoid the Death Spiral

Change is a frightening word, especially for businesses, and especially when the economic reality is dismal. But sometimes change is the only way to prevent an inevitable slow decline in your business–the proverbial death spiral. Sometimes you have to do something drastic to stop it in its tracks. I’ve written about the death spiral as [...]

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Boundless Adds 135th Sales Professional

Please join me in welcoming Jack Clemens, our 135th sales professional, to the Boundless team! Jack is based out of North Carolina and will help us expand our presence in the Southeast. Click here to read more about Jack joining Boundless. -JB

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The Marketing Pill

The differences between success and failure of professionals in business (including the promotional space) boil down to one word…leverage.  Leverage provides you the ability to run fast, be nimble and find the time to remain out of the weeds and into the strategy. One of my favorite quotes is by John Paul Getty he said, [...]

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