{"id":112,"date":"2009-03-10T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/03\/10\/hot-products-video-from-asi-new-york-show\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:28:13","slug":"hot-products-video-from-asi-new-york-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/03\/10\/hot-products-video-from-asi-new-york-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Products Video and Strong New York Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York is a great show town in every sense of the word and preliminary attendance is nearly 2,800 distributors\u00a0from 1,338 firm\u00a0firms &#8211; up more than 7% from 1,247 firms last year.\u00a0 Education Day\u00a0attracted nearly 450 distributors and is up 8%\u00a0from year ago.\u00a0\u00a0Read the press release <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.asicentral.com\/MKTGemails\/mediarelease\/556-817303\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Add New York&#8217;s numbers to the\u00a0attendance at ASI Orlando in January and a record-setter in Dallas and we&#8217;ve delivered the industry&#8217;s most successful first-quarter shows.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0the products I saw at the ASI Show this week were the top of the heap (as the song goes).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.asicentral.com\/_New-Products-with-Tim-Andrews\/video\/556226\/21237.html\">Watch<\/a> my products video from the ASI booth featuring unique items like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.asicentral.com\/_New-Products-with-Tim-Andrews\/video\/556226\/21237.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Kinetic_Band.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong>The Flexible Calculator<\/strong>, from Cosmos Fiber (asi\/46755). \u00a0This is a blast.\u00a0 It&#8217;s made of rubber, solar powered, and has\u00a0a magnet on the back. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kinetic Bands<\/strong>, from Media Tree, (asi\/70303).\u00a0\u00a0The perfect incentive item.\u00a0 Wear it on your wrist for 60 minutes of\u00a0exercise and up comes a code that you input into a web site for a reward. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>LED Badge and Mouse<\/strong>, from JMTek Corporate Key (asi\/63053).\u00a0\u00a0Create your message and the\u00a0badge or mouse\u00a0flashes it in LED lights.\u00a0 Personalize it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Awards in Motion<\/strong>, from Crystal D (asi\/47759). \u00a0This is a classy item, perfect for promoting events.\u00a0 Etch what you want on the base and on top insert four photos in a cube that spins.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.asicentral.com\/_New-Products-with-Tim-Andrews\/video\/556226\/21237.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Mouse.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong>Grow Cups<\/strong>, from Points of Light Inc. (asi\/78825). \u00a0Great for encouraging clients to &#8220;grow their business.&#8221; \u00a0All you need to grow flowers comes in a\u00a0cup, branded with your logo.\u00a0 Add water and voila!\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antibacterial Credit Card Sprayer<\/strong>, from Custom HBC Corp. (asi\/47934). \u00a0This is\u00a0a useful credit card-shaped bacterial spray that fits in your pocket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>And from<\/strong> <strong>Berney-Karp <\/strong>(asi\/40261), the first glitter imprinting technology, to jazz up products like water bottles.\u00a0\u00a0You unscrew the top and there&#8217;s a mirror inside and room for pills or make up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, I visited\u00a0<strong>Otto Cap International\u00a0<\/strong>(asi\/75350)\u00a0and discovered innovative cotton caps that have UV protection.\u00a0\u00a0Caps are among the\u00a0most popular advertising specialties and\u00a0click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.asicentral.com\/_Tim-Andrews-at-the-Otto-Cap-Booth\/video\/554934\/21237.html\">here<\/a> to watch the video right from the booth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, at <strong>ReturnMoi<\/strong> (asi\/82261), I found proactive security ID labels that help you find things you lose, even pets.\u00a0 Click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.asicentral.com\/_Tim-Andrews-With-ID-Tags-at-ASI-New-York\/video\/556029\/21237.html\">here<\/a> to watch the video.<\/p>\n<p>In other show news, this morning, the Oprah of Madison Avenue &#8211; Mary Lou Quinlan &#8211; rocked the crowd with some awesome insight every businessman on the planet will certainly attest to: understanding female consumers provide <em>the<\/em> key to unlocking what works in providing customer service excellence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to networking and education, last night attendees also enjoyed very special evening at the top of Rockefeller Center.\u00a0 No matter how many times I see the NYC skyline, it never fails to thrill me &#8211; especially from the 64<sup>th<\/sup> floor.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me your New York stories.\u00a0 Post a comment on the blog now or email me at <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\">tim.andrews@asicentral.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\"><\/script><img rc=\"http:\/\/static.delicious.com\/img\/delicious.small.gif\" alt=\"Delicious\" height=\"8\" width=\"8\" \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save\" title=\"Bookmark on Delicious\">Bookmark this on Delicious<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York is a great show town in every sense of the word and preliminary attendance is nearly 2,800 distributors\u00a0from 1,338 firm\u00a0firms &#8211; up more than 7% from 1,247 firms last year.\u00a0 Education Day\u00a0attracted nearly 450 distributors and is up 8%\u00a0from year ago.\u00a0\u00a0Read the press release here.\u00a0 Add New York&#8217;s numbers to the\u00a0attendance at ASI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-education","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","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=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}