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Seth Godin And PPAI’s Paul
Bellantone Headline
Advertising Week Program
Marketer and blog master Seth Godin spent an hour with
PPAI
President and CEO Paul Bellantone, CAE, in a Q&A-style ses-
sion during Advertising Week in New York City this September.
Hear more from Godin during his keynote speaker at The PPAI
Expo 2016 in Las Vegas, at 8:30 am on Tuesday, January 12 at
the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
The comfortable and often humorous banter with the edgy com-
mentator covered topics ranging from becoming indispensable
and horizontal marketing to Godin’s intentionally mismatched
socks (he buys them that way—six to a pack).
AIA Staff And Affiliate Owner
Run The Fox Valley Marathon
AIA staff and Bob Wilson, owner of Tennessee’s
AIA/Legacy
Promotional Group
, participated in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley
Marathon on September 20, as part of the Neenah, Wisconsin,
distributor’s wellness initiative. The Fox Valley Marathon acts as
a qualifier for the Boston Marathon, which Wilson says he will
be running for the ninth time this year.
AIA/Legacy Promotional Group Owner
Bob Wilson
takes a break
with AIA’s
Michelle Dalton
and
Marie Miller
after running the Fox
Valley Marathon.
PPEF Executive Committee
Visits PPAI For 2016
Planning Meeting
PPAI hosted a visit from the
Promotional Products Education
Foundation
’s (PPEF) executive committee. They were at the
Association’s Irving, Texas, headquarters to develop plans for
2016 as well as longer-term strategic planning on the future
direction of PPEF.
From left: PPAI Executive Vice President
Bob McLean
, PPEF
Foundation Manager
Sara Besly
and PPAI President and CEO
Paul
Bellantone, CAE
(far right), met with the PPEF executive commit-
tee—
Lori Bauer
, vice president of national accounts, BIC Graphic
North America;
Pat Dugan, MAS
, vice president of sales/marketing,
Budgetcard, Inc.;
Kippie Helzel, MAS
, vice president of sales,
CPS/Keystone;
Carol de Ville, MAS
, president of The Branding
Company; and
David Tate
, president of Signet, Inc.—for their annual
planning meeting at PPAI headquarters in September.