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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 it [...]

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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, “I [...]

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A Business Planning Experiment

A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create.” – Jesse Stoner Zemel
At Boundless, I have recently began an experiment with five of our top professionals. My objective is to design a foolproof recipe that can make any professional successful. I am modeling this plan after many [...]

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Gone Fishin’

Last Thursday and Friday, I took a much needed break to go fishing with my dad (and detox from the daily grind). We were traveling to some of our favorite watering holes in East Texas to chase the big black bass that roam the bottom of the deep waters. I think fishing is one [...]

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The Top 1% is a Mentality

I get asked all the time about how Boundless Network has been able to grow so quickly and bring on so many promotional industry leaders. I thought I’d give my blog readers a peek into how Boundless relates to the top 1% of professionals in our industry. Keep in mind that by top 1%, I [...]

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Boundless Acquires Custom Solutions

Last week we announced the acquisition of Custom Solutions, a Texas-based distributor led by Chris Miner. This press release received a tremendous amount of positive feedback—potentially more so than the previous six press releases combined. Naturally, I’m curious as to the cause of this groundswell of comments.
Here are a couple of hypotheses… which do you [...]

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