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Announcing -- 24/7, On-Demand Virtual Samples -- available at ThePlatformGroupGallery.com
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Those who know me know that I became a word-of-mouth marketing evangelist a couple of years ago when my company became one of the leading member of the then brand-new WOMMA organization. At the very first WOMMA conference I attended, Seth Godin was a keynote speaker and he said something that rocked my world. He said --
To be successful, you must become 'remarkable' - and that means making your product (service....self...) worth REMARKING UPON....
Common sense right? Yes - - but how powerful if you can actually do it. Make your product, yourself, your site, your line, your service so great that someone (a customer perhaps?) goes out of his or her way to talk about you to someone else - to make a remark about you.
Rosalie Marcus and her Promo Biz Coach service network is remarkable. She provides a network of support and advice and just plain common-sense to a host of professionals who are looking to take it to the next level. She works honestly with suppliers and associations throughout the industry guiding them to provide better services for her client-base and beyond and she helps us all take it up a notch.
As an industry supplier [The Platform Group Gallery 78708 / 216134 / platform] I have found my relationship with Rosalie Marcus, the Promo Biz Coach network and her other ventures to be remarkable.
After participating in Rosalie's workshop and her marketing programs my company received DOZENS of inquiries and many orders from promotional products distributors who did not previously know of The Platform Group Gallery. And those folks told others & they told more! We continually hear 'I heard of you from Rosalie!".
Rosalie Marcus delivers a spectacular, interested and motivated audience and provides insight, knowledge and advise that has grown my business in 2007 and will continue to contribute to its success in 2008 and beyond.
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The Platform Group Gallery makes spectacular, environmentally-friendly packaging specifically designed for advertising and promotional programs. Our line, GalleryBoard Packaging features over 300 Press Kits, Binders, Folders, Mailers, Gift Boxes and Desk Accessories.
Every item in the GalleryBoard Packaging line is GREEN; made from 100% recycled content fiberboard and chlorine-free top-sheets.
We manufacture GalleryBoard Packaging in our own facility in Houston, source the majority of our raw material inputs from the U.S., have our own employees and provide better than market benefits and wages.
The Platform Group Gallery markets GalleryBoard Packaging to promotional product professionals. We aggressively protect and support our Resellers with spectacular sales tools. The tools include -
You can find information about The Platform Group Gallery in trade publications for promotional products professionals, (including ASI Central, SAGE, PPB and Promotional Consultant magazines and newsletters), at industry service provider forums (like Rosalie Marcus' PromoBiz coach blog), at promotional products trade-shows (including the PPAI Expo and New Product Resource Directories), in industry networking groups like ASI Social Networking and in popular networking forums like FaceBook and Linked In.
The Platform Group Gallery was founded in 1997 as 101 Products LLC and was initially intended to supply stylish home-office organization products to retailers across the U.S. The co-founders, Allison Gower (President) and Jeremy Konko (Vice President) saw an opportunity to build a line that paired 'European style' with U.S. functionality and cost-effectiveness and had spent months researching home-office storage across England, France, Italy, Germany and beyond. In the 1997 Back-To-School Season Allison and Jeremy launched the d1mensions line (featuring Hanging File Boxes, Magazine Files, CD Storage and more office accessories) at retail trade-shows. Within months the d1mensions line was being shipped to College Bookstores, Art & Specialty stores, and most amazingly had won full-door distributor from Target. The founders built inventory and warehouse space to support the Target orders that averaged upwards of $1,500,000 annually and the line performed well in that retailer for most than two years. Unfortunately after four successful seasons and after proving the revenue potential of a stylish home-office line, Target decided to source like products from Asia and dropped the U.S. made d1mensions line. Not only were the founders left with hundreds of thousands of dollars of inventory made specifically for Target, but they also faced a space lease way beyond what they would need to service the remaining customer base.
Allison and Jeremy quickly redesigned their manufacturing, design and marketing operations to join the quickly growing promotional products industry. They re-purposed d1mensions into GalleryBoard Packaging and created items to support corporate and agency marketing and promotional programs. The Platform Group Gallery became accredited by both ASI and PPAI in 1999. Allison lived on the promotional road, exhibiting at (almost) every national and regional ASI and PPAI shows as well as traveling mini-regional shows. Jeremy burned the midnight oil configuring operational processes to meet and exceed the timeline demands of the promotional industry.
Today, The Platform Group Gallery is a trusted supplier, renowned for customer service and spectacular support programs. The company offers over 300 items that are specifically designed for Advertising programs, offers (4) different imprint methods, drop-ships to clients across the U.S. and the World and is 100% configured to aggressively support professional products resellers and their corporate clients.
In 2007, The Platform Group Gallery was named to the Houston Fast 100. We work everyday to provide better service to our resellers and their clients, to expand our line to reflect new marketing approaches and to integrate state of the art technology into our service, marketing and support systems.
Our team of employes loves working with you and thanks you for your business & support.
I cannot say enough about how helpful a blog can be for your business. It is a great way to talk to your clients & their clients, providing up-to-the minute ideas and resources. It is like having your own radio show and getting to choose the topics and guests.
Webbmar, a specialist in the promotional products industry, has a blog called Promotion Commotion. The blog links to their corporate promotional products site and also provides insightful information on industry trends and suppliers. This is a super example of how to use a blog to provide resources and info!
Look for information about The Platform Group Gallery on their blog -- and more from other trusted industry suppliers. 
