Growing up, I benefited from charitable people and agencies.
I remember when my disabled mom caught a ride with a neighbor into Columbus, Indiana, to file for welfare. Her pride wa...
Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Anderson Cooper and Tim Andrews – what do they all have in common? They all got their start as interns. While I can’t promise ASI members com...
Shortly after I joined ASI nearly 15 years ago, I was headed to Chicago when our chairman, Norman Cohn, told me to be sure to visit DARD Products, a multimillion-dollar supplier headed by his long-standing friend, Cary Shevin.
I travel a lot in my job as CEO of ASI. Since the start of the year, I’ve been to ASI shows in Orlando and Dallas, the PSI show in Düsseldorf, the British Promotional Merchandise A...
Registration is open for the 2018 ASI Power Summit – the annual three-day gathering of the best minds and most interesting people in the promotional products industry, taking place in Tucson, Arizona on Sunday, October 14 through Tuesday, October 16.
A few short years ago, we rarely used words like “battle,” “fight” and “attack” to describe an episode at a business. Welcome, sadly, to 2018, when computer viruses and online scam...
I join the promotional products industry in my dismay over an article published by “Fast Company” magazine, which unfairly and inaccurately portrayed ad specialties as ”cheap confe...
It’s often little gestures in life that prove the most important.
I recently learned of the passing of Ruth Guthrie Beeker, who lived in my tiny Indiana hometown of St. Louis Cross...
I enjoyed a very exciting day recently signing $1,000 scholarship checks for three college students who wrote winning essays on the 2018 ASI Internship Program, which attracted a r...
After thoughtful consideration, we just announced changes to the ASI benefits plan. I’m especially pleased about our addition of another national holiday, because I think it is in ...