Editing The Pen Addict 564/transcript (section)

== Distributor conversation and Bryce's role as national sales and marketing manager ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like, actually, finally, yes, let's do it. So it's good, because I really want to have the distributor conversation with someone and let our listeners know how this whole distributorship in our stationery world works and things like that. So we're going to talk a lot about that today. So why don't you give me the little intro? Tell me about you. Tell me about what you do, the company you work for, just so everyone listening can kind of get an idea of where we're going to go today.

'''Bryce Gillette:''' Yeah, yeah. So my name is Bryce Gillette. Like Brad said, I'm our national sales and marketing manager. So I handle all the relationships between us and our retailers, as well as I run our Instagram, our TikTok. I follow up on all the messages on both of those and also do help a lot with all the advertisements that we do, whether it's like Pinball Magazine, or just any other print advertising that we do. So I kind of do all that. And yeah, so I worked with Luxury Brands of America. We're a third generation family owned pin distributor. And that was actually started by my grandfather some years ago, which I'm sure we'll talk about later. But yeah, definitely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Definitely. So yeah, real quick, what brands do you currently have that our listeners would be familiar with?

'''Bryce Gillette:''' Yeah, so we distribute brands like Platinum Pin, Colorverse Inc, Banu Pin, Waldman, Nebula Note, Endless Stationery. They do some great job with notebooks. Noodler's Inc, D. Charles, Girologio Leather. So a few things. Kind of like all over the board.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, which is good. And we're going to talk about how all that comes to be. But I wanted to let our listeners know that, hey, you've probably, especially if you're in the US, you've probably somehow, you know, been involved with Luxury Brands' work. So the biggest question, one of the questions I had, and I've known you for several years, and I've known you as Bryce at Luxury Brands. And, you know, but I don't really know anything about you. So I wanted to know, were you a stationery fan before you joined the family business?