Growth

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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Light + soil + water = recipe for company culture

Right smack in the middle of Austin’s live music district, on the corner of 6th Street and Brazos, you’ll find the Boundless Network corporate headquarters. This spot has been our home for five years, during which time we’ve built a reputation for throwing some pretty great parties and events on our amazing third-floor patio. Starting [...]

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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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Surprise! There aren’t 48 hours in a day.

Some people just don’t seem to understand that the day is only 24 hours long. You’d think after a few years on Earth people would get used to this fact. But after working with sales professionals for the last 15 years I have developed some (hardly unique) insight: all sales professionals want to increase their [...]

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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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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 of the [...]

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Big Frey Joins Boundless

I’m excited to announce that one of the industry’s most innovative professionals, Seth Frey, has decided to become part of Boundless Network. For over a decade, Seth has owned and operated Big Frey Promotional Products, a Chicago-based distributor that is a leader in adapting to trends in technology and social media. The Big Frey team [...]

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