{"id":122,"date":"2009-04-29T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/04\/29\/interesting-research-results\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:54:00","slug":"interesting-research-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/04\/29\/interesting-research-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Research Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the headlines this week were about industry sales being off, we dug\u00a0deeper to figure out what separated the winners from the losers.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the reasons we checked, here are two numbers that matter:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those distributors reporting an increase in sales for the first quarter of 2009, 71% had ESP Online.\u00a0 Among those reporting a decrease in sales, only 59% had ESP Online.<\/p>\n<p>Our research geek says &#8220;the\u00a0difference is significant at the 95% level of confidence&#8221; &#8212; which he patiently explained to me translates to &#8220;this is definitely NOT a coincidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using ESP Online from ASI, you&#8217;re using a business management tool that truly sets you apart, and gives you a real advantage in finding ideas that matter and creating proposals that close business &#8212; now more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not yet using ESP Online, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/esp\">asicentral.com\/esp<\/a> to learn more and sign up for a free demo to see what you&#8217;re missing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, look through the other recent blog posts for\u00a0useful resources, marketing tools and business tips to help you in this challenging economic time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tell me how you&#8217;re boosting business by posting a comment on the blog now or emailing me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\">here<\/a>.<\/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>While the headlines this week were about industry sales being off, we dug\u00a0deeper to figure out what separated the winners from the losers. Of all the reasons we checked, here are two numbers that matter:\u00a0 Among those distributors reporting an increase in sales for the first quarter of 2009, 71% had ESP Online.\u00a0 Among those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news-about-asi","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}