TIM ANDREWS BLOG
Thoughts and opinions on the advertising specialty industry
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Are We There Yet?
Monday June 25, 2012
To many of us, summertime means one thing: road trip. My favorite was one I took with my family in August of 1974, when we drove from Indiana to Florida in an old Ford with a campe...
Business A-Go-Go
Thursday June 21, 2012
Every company is continually on the lookout for that all-important “cool factor” when it comes to garnering interest in their products.Outstanding functionality makes things cool. ...
Score Big with Top Golf Products
Wednesday June 13, 2012
It takes a lot of imagination to devise cool new products for a game as old as golf, which began in Scotland way back during the Middle Ages.And now that I’m in my middle age, I’m ...
Adobe and ASI: Perfect Together
Monday June 4, 2012
When it comes to images, one of the first things that pops into mind when I think of clear, crisp visuals is “Adobe.” They’re synonymous in the same way as, say, fine engineering a...
Calling All Droids
Thursday May 31, 2012
Hard to believe, but three short years ago there were only about 2,300 apps available in the Android market. Today, there are over half a million – with 15 billion downloads to dat...
A Very Happy ASI Anniversary
Thursday May 24, 2012
I just celebrated a very special day – my fifth anniversary with ASI as the company’s chief executive officer.ASI recruited me to become ASI’s president in 2003, and on May 23, 200...
ESP Websites Lead the Way
Wednesday May 23, 2012
We enjoyed a great turnout at our ESP Websites™ online launch party this week, with 475 people logging on to the webinar to learn all about ASI’s new, state-of-the-art Web solution...
ASI Raises the Bar with ESP Websites
Monday May 21, 2012
ASI is in the business of providing solutions that directly benefit members, which makes today’s launch of ESP Websites as good as it gets.During countless focus groups, we listene...
Welcome to the New Counselor
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Innovation is cool, right? We believe so. It’s what we try to promote to our readers, viewers and listeners every day in our various media outlets – print, Internet, video, social ...
Nice Guys Finish First
Tuesday November 13, 2012
Every year at this time, the most powerful executives in our industry are named to the prestigious Counselor® Power 50 list. Names move up, names move down – and some names disappe...
Another Super Shopping Solution
Monday November 12, 2012
Powered by ESP, ASI’s latest online marketing tool – ESP Websites for Suppliers – provides one-stop branding, enabling suppliers to display all of their products on their own insta...
Five Billion Reasons to Celebrate
Thursday October 25, 2012
When it comes to the U.S. economy, it’s difficult to determine exactly where we stand – and what the future holds. While we’ve seen some signs of hope in job gains, the housing mar...
Where in the World is Tim Andrews?
Tuesday October 9, 2012
One of my favorite things to do is visit member companies and meet with smaller, more intimate groups. Over the past few weeks, it seems like I spent more time in the air than on t...
Into the Future with SmartLink
Tuesday August 21, 2012
Remember the days when you actually had to drive to a store during regular hours to buy stuff? Now we routinely traffic in e-commerce, a business reality first made possible in 199...
Remember Snow?
Wednesday August 8, 2012
Personally, I’m not one for Christmas in July. And it bugs me that even though summer doesn’t officially end for more than a month, we’re saturated with back-to-school commercials ...