{"id":1061,"date":"2011-06-16T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2011-06-16T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:53:13","slug":"time-to-read-write-and-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/06\/16\/time-to-read-write-and-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Read, Write and Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids across the nation are singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbNEOJMGFAo\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNo more pencils\/No more books\/No more teacher\u2019s dirty looks\u201d<\/a> as they exit school for summer. While I wish I could join them at the mall or in the pool, instead I\u2019m thinking about upcoming fall promotions while flipping through our 2011 schools edition of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/ASIStore\/products.aspx?prodID=162&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\">Idea Showcase catalog<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We\u2019ve already sold 200,000 copies of the pocket-size catalog, which comes with a money-saving coupon section and slides perfectly into a No. 10 envelope. Whether you\u2019re looking for a reliable standard like a pen or stress ball or something far out like rally hair or glowing ice cubes, <em>Idea Showcase<\/em> offers plenty of campaign ideas.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/ASIStore\/products.aspx?prodID=162&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/showcase.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>390+ products between $1-$40<\/li>\n<li>50+ suppliers<\/li>\n<li>Products perfect for elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, after-school programs, youth clubs and sports teams<\/li>\n<li>Two covers to choose from: standard and schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, each copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/ASIStore\/products.aspx?prodID=162&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\">Idea Showcase<\/a><\/em> can be imprinted with a distributor\u2019s full-color logo and contact information on the cover any time throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>To order <em>Idea Showcase<\/em> online or to see sample pages, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/ASIStore\/products.aspx?prodID=162&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. \u00a0For more information, contact Dan Brown, executive director of distributor services, at <em><a href=\"mailto:dbrown@asicentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">dbrown@asicentral.com<\/a><\/em> or at 800-546-1350.\u00a0 Distributors receive free shipping on orders placed by July 15.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I can just get Alice Cooper\u2019s classic June anthem<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbNEOJMGFAo\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cSchool\u2019s Out for Summer\u201d<\/a> out of my head, I\u2019ll head back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Let me know what you\u2019re planning for summer by posting a comment or emailing me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Andrews_ASI\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timothymandrews\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timasitv\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids across the nation are singing \u201cNo more pencils\/No more books\/No more teacher\u2019s dirty looks\u201d as they exit school for summer. While I wish I could join them at the mall or in the pool, instead I\u2019m thinking about upcoming fall promotions while flipping through our 2011 schools edition of the Idea Showcase catalog. \u00a0We\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}