It’s a short season, just 17 weeks long. Yet football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It’s an amazing feat for a sport that was essentially rugby until 1882. That’s the year when new rules were established, giving each team three tries to...
With more than 12 million consumers surveyed annually, the NPD Group definitely has their finger on the pulse of what’s selling. This organization says that a general move from digital back to paper has caused an 18% spike in the purchase of paper products like...
Is it possible to plan too far in advance? People who ask us what’s on our schedule this time of year might ponder this. It’s because we tell them that if it’s January, it must be time to think about back to school. Most of the world follows some kind of cycle....
Our customers in the education field are some of the most organized people we’ve ever met, so it comes as no surprise to us that they’re already deep into the planning stages for the coming school year, while everybody else is just getting around to thinking about how...
The charcoal from the Memorial Day barbecue is still glowing, but visions of sugarplums are dancing in your head. That’s because June and July are the peak months for the Christmas buying season. Summer may have just begun, but it’s time to start planning for the...
