PromoEQP November 2026

The distributor is indispensable... So we built you a Wingman. 

The PromoEQP Companion is a browser extension created and designed specifically to serve the distributor network of PromoEQP. In a simple, non-invasive, click-to-open design, PromoEQP’s Companion is available to provide you with the information you need from PromoEQP.

• The Monthly Discount Code...
• Supplier policies and benefits...
• Support and PromoEQP updates... 

All one click away -- wherever you’re working online.

When a PromoEQP supplier is on a page you have open, the icon on your toolbar displays a white $ to indicate a PromoEQP supplier partner is on the page. Nothing automatically pops open or interferes in your work flow.

It’s designed to bring your attention, never to demand it.

The Companion is a membership benefit, available at no charge to the PromoEQP distributor network. Just inside of the soft-launch period more than 180 distributorships, and nearly 200 users, have installed the PromoEQP Companion.

The official launch: Thursday, November 5, 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

Cheryl, Nadia, Ian and I will walk through how the Companion works and what it does for you. Type your questions in, and we’ll answer them live. The session is recorded, so if you can’t make it, you won’t miss it.

• Click HERE to RSVP for the Launch Event on November 5th

• Click HERE to learn more about the PEQP Companion

Thanks again...

Jeremy Chacon
jeremy@promoeqp.com
312-392-1064

Roadside Attraction, featuring Rod Brown, Episode 3:

Full EXPO Plans coming November 15th

January 11–14, back home at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in fabulous Las Vegas. This year PromoEQP arrives with a dedicated breakout meeting room, another round of HAPPY HOUR(s), and scheduled supplier and ProDev panels.

Details are coming. For now, mark the calendar.

Holiday gifting is a chance to thank customers, recognize employees, and keep a brand present after the year ends. 

But in Q4, a great gift idea is only as good as the plan that gets it into someone’s hands on time. Product availability, decoration, approvals, packing, and shipping all have to fit between the order date and the day the gift is meant to arrive.

Today’s Short Story is a piece to help you achieve your long-term goals, aka the Big Picture.

For promotional products distributors, the goal is not to create panic about deadlines. It is to give clients a clear path from idea to delivery. 

These three tactics can help you protect the client experience when inventory and production time are under pressure.

A client may say they need gifts “by the holidays,” but that is not a usable deadline. A package for a December employee meeting, a customer gift intended to arrive before office closures, and a New Year kickoff kit all have different timelines.

Tactics

• Confirm the date the recipient NEEDS the gift
• Put every stage of the order on the calendar
• Build in a buffer!!!

A gift that looks perfect in a presentation may not still be available when the client approves it. In Q4, inventory is part of the recommendation, not a detail to check after the sale. This is where a distributor earns trust: not by promising that nothing will go wrong, but by making sure one inventory change does not derail the entire program.

Tactics:

• Verify availability before presenting a short list
• Present a first choice and an acceptable substitute
• Reduce complexity when time gets tight

“Production time” is not the same as “time until delivery.” A supplier WILL need a finished proof before its production clock starts, and a completed order still needs to be packed, shipped, and received. The safest approach is to track each step separately and confirm the timing with the suppliers and carriers handling that specific order.

Tactics

• Create one shared order tracker
• Confirm the details that commonly hold up shipments
• Check progress before the deadline becomes critical

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Holiday gifting deadlines do not have to turn every order into a rush order. Distributors can help clients choose a meaningful gift -and- deliver it reliably by working backward from the date it matters, confirming inventory with a backup ready, and managing approvals, production, and shipping as one coordinated project.

The earlier those conversations happen, the more choices the client has, and the less likely a thoughtful holiday gift is undermined by a preventable delay.

You got this!

Brandon Pecharich, Mark8media

https://www.mark8media.com/shortstorybigpicture/budgetsuseitorloseit | https://www.facebook.com/mark8media

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2026 Regional Wrap-Up

Where PromoEQP has been

PPAS Connect 

September 21 in Dallas. 

The PPAS Golf Classic filled the morning at Grapevine, and the PPAS Connect Networking Reception closed out the day. It was a full day with the people who make this industry what it is.

Special thanks to our supplier partners HPG, PCNA, High Caliber Line, and Orbus for standing alongside us, and to PromoEQP Distributors: Rudy Granaghan of Saguaro Supply Co. and Peter Mobley of Geogram LLC, who won their way into the PromoEQP foursome.

PromoEQP at the SAAC Show.  

From a booth on the SAAC Show floor to sponsorships of the SAAC Young Professionals Happy Hour.

Relive the event HERE  and learn more about SAAC www.saac.net

TAILGATING with PromoEQP & MiPPA 

It was a night of Food | Drinks | Networking | Socializing with one of the most vibrant and remarkable Regional Associations in the Industry: Michigan Promotional Professionals Associations

Click HERE to learn more about this incredible work being done by the incredible folks at MiPPA.

Special thanks to Sydney and the entire MiPPA team!

Casino Night at Blackhawk

PromoEQP, in support of RMR (Rocky Mountain Association) hosted a HAPPY HOUR(s) Event at the Monarch Casino in Blackhawk!

Rocky Mountain Region Promotional Product Association (RMR)

HAAPY HOUR(s) with the Texas Swing

Featuring a catered Socializing and Networking event for Distributors and Strategic Supplier partners, PromoEQP went on the road to celebrate Texas in San Antonio & Austin. Stary tuned to Nadia’s updates on social media — but these events have set the table for all of PromoEQP’s upcoming events.

Learn more about BOTH Texas Regional Associations

PPAS | HPPA

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