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<\/p>\nThe heat wave followed us home from the Midwest, but we\u2019re trying to stay cool with a final wrap-up from a very successful show in Chicago. Total distributor attendance was 4,500 \u2013 up 9% from last year \u2013 from 1,930 distributor firms.<\/p>\n
The show generated a ton of positive feedback, and I\u2019d like to thank everyone who tweeted about our events and their show floor experiences. NBC in Chicago sent two reporters to the convention center and from the looks of it, they had a great time.<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a> to see the story and dozens of pics from the show floor, featuring numerous products along with video demonstrations and an interview with Counselor <\/em>senior writer Dave Vagnoni. NBC posted everything to its business website Inc.Well<\/a>, a how-to blog for Chicago business.<\/p>\n Speaking of products, click here<\/a> to check out my latest hot products video, featuring three great items for the fourth-quarter selling season: a gigantic fortune cookie from Good Fortunes (asi\/57689<\/em>), a vinola from Logomark (asi\/67866<\/em>) and a heart-shaped mirror from Hirsch Gifts (asi\/61005<\/em>).<\/p>\n And if you missed former NFL coach Mike Ditka (at right), click here<\/a> for a recap of his keynote. We also enjoyed a terrific reception and \u201cpinning\u201d ceremony in Chicago for recipients of our gold standard education certificates: Bachelor and Masters of Advertising Specialty Information<\/a>. Click here<\/a> for a recap and interview with Melinda Ligos, our senior VP of professional development. We now have 7,000 people registered for classes and working toward their certification.<\/p>\n Let me know what you learned at the ASI Chicago show by posting a comment or e-mailing me here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on Twitter<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The heat wave followed us home from the Midwest, but we\u2019re trying to stay cool with a final wrap-up from a very successful show in Chicago. Total distributor attendance was 4,500 \u2013 up 9% from last year \u2013 from 1,930 distributor firms. The show generated a ton of positive feedback, and I\u2019d like to thank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-media-coverage","category-members","category-news-about-asi","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","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=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/chiB.jpg\")
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