TIM ANDREWS BLOG
Thoughts and opinions on the advertising specialty industry
ESP Searches Jump After Virtual Trade Shows
Thursday April 29, 2010 | Filed under:
We held our fourth virtual trade show this week and all distributor feedback to date can be summed up in one word: great.Only one thing can make the virtual experience better - and...
Live Green, Love Green, Buy Green
Wednesday April 21, 2010 | Filed under:
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day we're offering a one-day sale of our best-selling, eco-friendly Green Catalog. From 8 a.m.-7 p.m. ET Thursday, all new sales of the 2...
Real Estate Mogul Tells It Like It Is
Tuesday April 6, 2010 | Filed under:
Barbara Corcoran is a natural-born storyteller with a million-dollar attitude. Tuesday, she dished out valuable bits of business advice on ASI Internet Radio along with gems from ...
How’s Health Care Affecting Your Business?
Thursday April 1, 2010 | Filed under:
No matter what you think of recent health care legislation, there's no question it's raised a number of key issues for businesses. Here at ASI, we held an all-company meeting rece...
ASI Heads Back to Vegas
Monday March 29, 2010 | Filed under:
ASI is shaking up Las Vegas this September with a newly-announced Holiday Preview trade show at the Sands Expo Center. We tweaked a previous show in response to requests from supp...
ASI Magazines Win Big
Tuesday July 20, 2010 | Filed under:
The summer before my senior year at Ball State University, I scored a dream internship at the Dow Jones News Fund in Manhattan. The experience provided a solid foundation in journa...
Cool Products From Hot Sponsors
Friday July 16, 2010 | Filed under:
How do you determine what’s hot? Counselor magazine editors tackle that question every year when devising their annual list of the hottest people, products and ideas in the ad spec...
School’s Out – But School Products Are In
Thursday July 15, 2010 | Filed under:
It’s never too soon to stock up on Back to School items, and I got a terrific preview of fun products this week at ASI’s Chicago show.Click here to watch my Tim’s Take sampling of ...
We Like It HOT
Thursday July 15, 2010 | Filed under:
It’s almost 90 degrees in Chicago, but we’re staying cool at the ASI Show, where we’re previewing thousands of innovative new products just in time for the second half of the selli...
State of the Industry Sneak Peek
Wednesday July 14, 2010 | Filed under:
Counselor’s State of the Industry issue – our largest and best-read issue of the year – is about to drop and I’m offering a preview in Tim’s Take, a video shot during the opening d...
A Billion-Dollar Idea
Friday July 2, 2010 | Filed under:
How does a billion dollars in sales sound? That’s what the industry could realize if distributor firms answer my challenge to add 20,000 new sales reps to grow our market, stimulat...
Some Like it Cool…We Like it Hot
Thursday July 1, 2010 | Filed under:
One of the best parts of this job is checking out all the cool stuff fueling this industry. This week, we released a Top 10 list of the hottest products with the season’s coolest f...
Sprint Your Way to Savings
Friday June 25, 2010 | Filed under:
Are your clients, family, friends and colleagues contacting you more frequently on your cell phone or by text message? Landlines, what are those?I recently spent a few days in New ...
A Virtual Thumbs Up
Tuesday June 22, 2010 | Filed under:
We love feedback because it helps us continually improve our products and services. Of course, we especially love positive feedback because it makes our day.This week, during anoth...
Celebrate the Top 10 U.S.-Made Promo Products
Tuesday June 22, 2010 | Filed under:
Not long ago, The New York Times asked “Is anything made in the U.S.A. anymore?” Their answer? “You’d be surprised.” I know I was.The U.S. remains by far the world’s leading manufa...