Gary Chan
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Welcome to our podcast, where we dive into the world of promotional products, brand marketing, and occasionally, digital marketing. Our hosts, Gary and Melissa, are two experienced industry professionals who are not afraid to discuss all the ins and outs of the promotional market. Together, they offer behind-the-scenes insights, tips and tricks, success stories, and even share failures. Join us as we explore everything related to the industry with their unique angles. Taking you on a journey into the world of brand marketing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Gary and Melissa make the costs, materials and production choices behind branded merchandise easier to understand.
Gary and Melissa turn promotional merchandise into a practical study of how brands become tangible. Their conversational approach moves from client decisions and production constraints to seasonal planning, emerging technology and sustainability, keeping the commercial…
A grainy Facebook photo meets a T-shirt printer; suddenly you're asking about vector files.
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The episode keeps its feet on the ground. Gary, Melissa, and Laurel talk through promotional products, branding management, email, and social media, so the conversation stays tied to work people actually do instead of drifting off into theory.
A practical tour of decoration methods, with enough production detail to make the tradeoffs stick.
The episode works as a practical tour of decoration methods, moving from older staples to newer equipment that changes how decorators do the work.
A practical look at supplier, artwork, and production decisions in promotional-product work.
This episode follows Gary and Melissa as they work through supplier problems, artwork quality, sizing, decoration methods, and what clients expect.
Retention is framed as a communication and recognition problem, with promo products used as visible rewards.
Gary and Melissa treat retention as a practical workplace problem, not a buzzword. The episode keeps its focus on how marketing can help HR by backing clear communication, internal newsletters, and straightforward recognition.
A candid year-end recap that captures two marketers thinking aloud in real time.
24-hour Production closes 2024 with a loose year-end recap that feels candid rather than polished. Melissa and her cohost look back on starting the show together, joke about the episode count, and settle into the kinds of questions they still want to work through, especially…
Holiday gifting starts earlier than the calendar suggests.
This episode keeps its footing in timing, with Gary and Melissa moving from Halloween anxiety to client and employee gifts, then into the money and lead-time questions that come with holiday orders.
A practical check-in on promotional marketing as tariffs, election change, and hybrid work keep reshaping the job.
Brand Marketing Podcast settles into a practical check-in on promotional marketing as tariffs, a Canadian election change, and buyer habits shaped by hybrid and work-from-home schedules keep shifting the ground.
Tariffs and labels are treated as real business problems, not abstract politics.
This episode treats tariffs as a practical problem for a product-based business, not a distant policy debate. Gary and Melissa keep circling back to the difficulty of telling what is Canadian-made and what is not, along with the way product labels and store signage are being…
Simon Owens interviews founders about the revenue mechanics behind their media businesses.
Colin and Samir break down creator-economy news, from OpenAI's TBPN deal to AI podcasts.
AI-era marketing tactics from operators testing what works next.
Mark DeGrasse interviews agency and marketing operators on the frameworks behind their case studies.
Cory Cotten-Potter interviews B2B sales and marketing founders on AI's reshaping of pipeline generation.
Kristina Halvorson interviews content strategists about how the work actually gets done.
Gary and Melissa open in the middle of October and the season that comes with it.
Gary and Melissa trace how promo tech has changed.
Gary and Melissa spend the episode looking past Christmas and into 2026 planning.
Gary and Melissa open with Matt as the guest and frame the conversation around brand marketing, promotional products, and digital marketing.
Gary and Melissa open with the Canada-U.S.
24hr Production closes 2024 with a relaxed, reflective check-in.
The hosts return after a break for the first episode of 2025 and introduce Rob Mandrick, their director of programs.
Gary and Melissa open with a check-in on tariffs and a Canadian election change.
The hosts bring Kale, their in-house web developer, into the room and start from square one.
Gary and Melissa are back after a three month hiatus.
Gary opens with Melissa and guest Lisa Reed, and the three of them settle into a conversation about promotional product branding management, digital marketing, and a little AI.
Gary and Melissa start with retention pressure and the constant search for new employees.
AI is the sales problem on the table.
Decoration starts with the old standbys.
Hosts Gary and Melissa share personal stories from the promotional products industry, covering supplier mishaps, sampling challenges, decoration methods, and freight issues to educate listeners on behind-the-scenes realities.