{"id":1226,"date":"2011-09-13T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2011-09-13T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:38:33","slug":"get-your-avatar-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/09\/13\/get-your-avatar-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Avatar On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASI\u2019s next <a href=\"http:\/\/vshow.on24.com\/vshow\/asi8\/registration\/1635\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Trade Show<\/a> kicks off Wednesday and there\u2019s still time to register. The show features multimedia demos, free catalogs, tons of top new suppliers, 27 show booths with sales reps and 40 ASI Education and certification programs.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you can win more than $17,000 in prizes. <a href=\"http:\/\/vshow.on24.com\/vshow\/asi8\/registration\/1635\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to register for free for the 10 a.m.-3 p.m. ET show.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/VTS.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Altogether, more than 1,500 visited our last virtual show, which generated 1,037 one-to-one chats. In addition, visitors viewed a total of 1,858 documents and 757 webcasts, staying at the show an average of 78.5 minutes \u2013 not bad for a free day with no expensive travel.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is no matter where you are \u2013 or how you\u2019re dressed \u2013 you can log on and learn, network and sell. And if you miss this week\u2019s virtual event, you can access it\u00a0on-demand later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/vts\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We know the all-day, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_tradeshow\" target=\"_blank\">online events<\/a> are effective because exhibiting suppliers experience an average 24% increase in ESP searches the day after each show.<\/p>\n<p>And, don\u2019t forget \u2013 you can attend classes that are applied to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/asp\/open\/education\/certificationprogram.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">BASI or MASI certificate<\/a> right from the virtual show floor.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think of virtual events by posting a comment or e-mailing 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>ASI\u2019s next Virtual Trade Show kicks off Wednesday and there\u2019s still time to register. The show features multimedia demos, free catalogs, tons of top new suppliers, 27 show booths with sales reps and 40 ASI Education and certification programs. Plus, you can win more than $17,000 in prizes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-community","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}