TIM ANDREWS BLOG
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Live Green, Love Green, Buy Green
Wednesday April 21, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Some Like it Cool…We Like it Hot
Thursday July 1, 2010
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
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
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...
We’ve Got Your Number
Friday June 11, 2010
What would you say if someone offered you a complete customer service center – for free?That’s exactly what ASI is now offering distributors who buy our 2011 Spectrum catalog. In D...
Advisory Board Nominations Now Open
Wednesday June 9, 2010
The only idea worth having is the one worth sharing. And one of the best idea-sharing forums in the industry is now accepting nominations. Now through July 31, you can nominate you...
Save Thousands in Credit Card Processing Fees
Friday June 4, 2010
Does your jaw drop to the floor each time you open your credit card statement? One comment I often hear from members is they’re getting “killed” with additional merchant account f...