{"id":116,"date":"2009-03-23T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/03\/23\/now%e2%80%99s-your-time-to-advertise-and-get-the-word-out\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:29:30","slug":"now%e2%80%99s-your-time-to-advertise-and-get-the-word-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/03\/23\/now%e2%80%99s-your-time-to-advertise-and-get-the-word-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Now\u2019s Your Time to Advertise and Get the Word out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/ProductsAndServices\/dist\/magazines\/index.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Counselor_Cover.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>This is a time for making choices and suppliers are increasingly selecting <em>Counselor <\/em>and <em>Advantages <\/em>to get their message out.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <em>Counselor <\/em>was ranked No. 1 in ad pages for 2008 among all business-to-business magazines, which just goes to prove what I&#8217;ve been saying all along &#8211; suppliers know that advertising works and now&#8217;s the time to ramp it up and reach the right qualified distributors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the press release <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.asicentral.com\/MKTGemails\/MediaRelease\/556-817221b\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recent article in <em>min&#8217;s b2b<\/em>, a publication that tracks the magazine industry, also noted that <em>Advantages <\/em>magazine ranked No. 3.\u00a0 Together with <em>Counselor, <\/em>the two books<em> <\/em>accounted for 15% of all ad pages among the top 25 business-to-business publications in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article also ranked magazines in the advertising\/marketing\/sales management category for North America, where <em>Advantages, Counselor<\/em> and <em>Successful Promotions<\/em> comprised 29% of all ad pages and <em>Successful Promotions<\/em> posted the highest percentage increase versus the prior year.\u00a0 Competing industry publications accounted for only 18% of ad pages.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the rankings help get the word out that the advertising specialty industry is important and vibrant.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing to get the word out about your business right now?<\/p>\n<p>Post a comment 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>This is a time for making choices and suppliers are increasingly selecting Counselor and Advantages to get their message out. In fact, Counselor was ranked No. 1 in ad pages for 2008 among all business-to-business magazines, which just goes to prove what I&#8217;ve been saying all along &#8211; suppliers know that advertising works and now&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-initiatives","category-member-benefits","category-news-about-asi","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}