BAMKO

Masters of disruption, the BAMKO team believes in delivering the ultimate branded merch experience to clients. The internal support is unmatched and allows each member of the team to excel in their area of expertise. Let's create some cool campaigns together.

Senior Account Executive

Elite Promotional Marketing

Cotton Candy Inc.

Cotton Candy is a unique work environment where the sales staff fully supports one another to ensure our clients receive the best and most unique promotional options available. From the top down, there is a directive to never miss a deadline and to always maintain the highest level of satisfaction.

We are primarily a promotional products company, but also source directly with factories overseas and with the biggest brands from around the world.

My specific responsibilities are as follows:

- Acquire and maintain national and multi-national accounts.
- Proactively and reactively source product to fit the client's brand, budget and timing.
- Negotiate the best possible pricing from my supplier to maximize my client’s spend.
- Maintain quality control from the initial quoting of concepts straight through the proofing, production and shipping (all with the aid of a dedicated coordinator) to the possible storage and fulfillment of each order.
- Stay up-to-date on the current trends in our industry by attending exclusive training, events, and trade shows hosted by first-class suppliers.

Specialties: making the impossible possible! I love turning impossible budgets and deadlines into fantastic campaigns!

BrandAlliance™

We provide our clients with promotional marketing solutions BIG and small! I love a challenge so, regardless of your budget, I can help you make a splash at your next event with the perfect promotional product to fit with your marketing theme. Our team will help determine who your end user is and work within the parameters of each project to deliver MAXIMUM return on your marketing dollars.

Promotional Marketing Consultant

Banana Republic

Responsible for hiring, training and coaching sales staff to reach weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets while maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Customer Experience Manager

Naturalizer Shoes

Managing sales targets for 4 stores in a given region. Shipping and receiving weekly shipments of inventory in a manner so efficient that our sales teams would miss little to no time on the sales floor, which meant less lost commission. Hired, trained, and manage up to 24 employees within our region at any given time. Conducted onboarding and exit interviews for employees. Maximized sales with a limited weekly staffing budget. Maintained the highest Units Per Transaction sales record for our district, month over month, for over 2 years. Produced a record number of sales superstars.

Area Sales Manager

I am a promotional products professional who learned the business from the ground up, beginning as a sales assistant and quickly wanted to know everything about this "secret" industry. 
Since 2008, I have been building strong relationships with both my clients and my suppliers, which have allowed me to present the best fit branded merch solutions to my clients at a great value. My clients come to me because they know that I will work tirelessly to bring their branded merch visions to life. This can look like helping them to reach their marketing goals at an event or working with the HR team to achieve those employee engagement goals. 
If you're looking for the perfect product for your corporate marketing initiatives, give me a call!
You can follow my adventures on Instagram @selfpromosam to find out just how in love with promoting your brand I am!

OH, CANADA, we love to see it!

lululemon has officially dropped the first looks of their new Team Canada Summer Olympics collection with plenty of thoughtful notions like magnetic zippers and pull-on loops to better serve all Canadians. 

Which pieces are you adding to your Olympic cheerleading collection? 
And which sport are you most looking forward to watching? 

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Samantha Fullerton (Styre)

That small thing that happened in 2020 forced event planners and marketers to have to connect with clients and supporters where they were. At home.
Since then, many of us have moved to a fully remote or hybrid work model.
Meaning, the traditional options for merch didn't apply as much anymore.

Fun runs moved to virtual.
School orientations moved to virtual.
Conferences, seminars, AGMs, all went virtual.

But the power of tangible, branded merch is still known so how do you connect with your audience when you can't give merch in person?

You find the MOST compact, easy to mail, covetable, useful gift and you meet your audience where they are, at home.

Now they've added your branded #BottleBand to their existing water bottle and your brand is being seen during their..
Virtual 5k run
Virtual first year university orientation and tour
Virtual annual board meeting

#holdontome #meetyouwhereyouare #betterbrandedmerch #beyondbrandedmerch #givebettergifts #usefulgifts #reusable #funrun #university #virtualevents #mailablemerch

You've got a BIG job. Your plate is SO FULL.
But you want the newest, hottest, freshest merch that makes your employees and clients sit up and take notice.
STOP spending hours doing your own research.
Slide into my DM's, email me, text me, call me.
My job is to share what's new with you. My job is to get the goods in your hands in time for your next event (you just remembered you have something in the next two weeks, didn't you?).
Put me to work for you and let me blow your mind.
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#blowyourmind #mindblowingmerch #beyondbrandedmerch #betterbrandedmerch #promoproductpro #merchmaven

Without logos or taglines or pictures, oh my! How did they do it? 
Engage the senses and take a read! 

Now what are your most vivid sensory memories that include scent/smell?

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After 75 Years, McDonald’s Just Quietly Rolled Out Its Most Brilliant Idea Yet

We can't all afford to spend millions of dollars hacking our biology but we can take classes to learn a new language, how to sew an upcycled dog bed (my fave so far), a cooking class, or bird watching courses, we can improve our own brain function by simply being students for life. 

What have been your favourite courses you've taken outside of formal high school and post secondary learning?

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Scientists Just Found a Way to Help Your Brain Work Like It's 30 Years Younger

It's the first of a new month and that can bring new goals and challenges. 

Do you subscribe to the notion that starting a new habit at the beginning of a week, month, or year is more advantageous than starting in the middle? 

My experience with fitness has always been up and down but my most recent success (only eight weeks in but EIGHT WEEKS 🥂) had me starting at 5:30am on a Monday morning. And that marker of starting at the beginning of my week has held strong. 

When it comes to new habits or goals, has this method worked for you, too?

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