AUSTIN, Texas – Boundless Network (http://www.boundlessnetwork.com), a top 40 promotional products distributor, announces a partnership with West coast based Offbeat Productions, Inc a promotional distributor with offices in Park City, UT and Northridge, CA. Boundless will power Offbeat with a full technology platform and a suite of administrative solutions.

Offbeat has been in business over 20 years and has established the company as a leader in servicing the film and production industry.  Bob Nellis, along with his wife Shannon, founded Offbeat productions while still in college at UCLA. Since that time he has grown his business to exceed $3 million in annual revenue and a solid base of loyal customers.

“Offbeat has reached a tipping point in our business, we would either have to invest millions of dollars in technology to support the needs of our customers or identify a partner that was a leader with customer-facing technology solutions within the industry,” said Nellis. “It goes without saying; Boundless exceeded all of our expectations to capitalize on the shift with our top customers.”

“Offbeat get’s it because they are visionaries,” said Jason Black, Founder and CEO of Boundless Network. “In today’s economy there is an opportunity to take market share as the end customer behavior shift to adopt technology enabled solutions. This partnership is a win-win, Boundless has a solid partner in the West and Offbeat can take their business to another level.”

About Boundless

Boundless Network is one of the fastest growing, venture-backed promotional product distributorships. They were recently ranked No. 3 out of an estimated 20,000 branded merchandise companies on ASI’s 2010 list of fastest-growing distributors. The company was also one of the youngest distributors to be named to ASI’s Distributor Top 40 list, where it outpaced the average annual growth of the other ranked distributors by more than 50 percent. Last August, Inc. magazine recognized Boundless Network on its Inc. 5000 list; Boundless Network was the seventh fastest-growing company in the “Business Products & Services” category.

Earlier this week my husband asked, “how long do you go now without thinking about it?” I told him that I wake up without thinking about it most days, but I am reminded within my first waking hour when I take my cancer drug. They tell me I’ll be taking cancer drugs for 10 years. These kinds of thoughts only capture me once or twice a day now, and the “emo-tsunamis” have been replaced with a once or twice a week “emo-wave” of brief tears that washes over the shores of my lingering grief. I like to call it the weather system of recovery.

Many don’t realize that awareness of this thief first surfaced when Betty Ford went public with her story of breast cancer in 1974. Her bravery inspired Suzy Komen to fight her fight, a fight she lost after three years, but one that led her sister, Nancy Brinker, to start the Susan G. Komen foundation in 1982.

“Awareness” is a pitifully weak word for what has transpired in the last 35 years. It is not “awareness,” but action: an investment in research and technologies that has transformed this disease from a death sentence to a survivable illness for those hit with cancer.

As a result of these investments, my cancer was detected early. I had a state-of-the-art radiation treatment program (five days instead of six weeks–still horrible, but at least brief). I was provided a test that confirmed I did not require chemotherapy which wasn’t available just five years ago. That alone felt like a miracle.

In October, I’ll go on my first walk for the cure. My sister, who works in corporate marketing at Popeye’s Chicken, invited me to join a group she walks with in Houston (a former co-worker of hers is a survivor). They tell me I’ll be wearing a special “survivor” t-shirt. I am certain it will have a host of logos on it from corporate sponsors. I notice this now, just as I noticed the brands that sponsored a recent “tea party” for survivors that I attended last month.

I applaud the companies that have stepped beyond the narcissistic trappings of shallow social media plays and are reaching out with the clout of their corporate brand to participate in social responsibility initiatives that help revolutionize cancer research.

Yesterday, a precious pink jewelry box arrived from Tonsa, a two-year survivor with DriveTime, one of our clients, with a note congratulating me on my six-month mark. I will never forget her or DriveTime, you can be sure. I had other calls and e-mails as well. If you know a survivor, know that these anniversaries are very special. Each day is one less to worry about recurrence.

So as the month of October approaches, I encourage you to step up your awareness, and if you can, your participation in some way.

As for pink… it’s growing on me.

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