{"id":1455,"date":"2012-02-03T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:46:43","slug":"super-bowl-means-super-sales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2012\/02\/03\/super-bowl-means-super-sales-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Means Super Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter which team scores the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianapolissuperbowl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a> trophy, ASI member companies printing T-shirts, jackets and other sports-related memorabilia will be big winners this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of ad specialty companies are sure to work into the wee hours Sunday into Monday to get Super Bowl items to eager sports fans. We spoke to Jay Meyer, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/printedtees\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Dolphin Screen Print &amp; Embroidery<\/a> (<em>asi\/141732<\/em>) of New Hampshire, which is one of the companies working tons of OT this weekend to keep sports fans happy.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/super.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> win in the big game against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giants.com\/\">New York Giants<\/a> in Super Bowl XLVI, Blue Dolphin expects to print at least 25,000 shirts overnight in the initial order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big sports stores start showing up around 3 a.m. because they want to have the apparel ready in the morning when they open,\u201d Meyer told us. \u201cIf it\u2019s really doing well, they\u2019ll reorder, probably another 5,000. Last week after the AFC championship, we printed 7,000 shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 40 employees will work on the initial order, starting by the game\u2019s third quarter. Printing starts as soon as the game finishes. And even if the hometown team fails to take home the title, Meyer said Blue Dolphin still expects to print at least 9,000 Giants shirts.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asishow.com\/12Dallas\/index.html\">ASI Show in Dallas<\/a> \u2013 where Twitter co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asishow.com\/12Dallas\/Keynote.html\">Biz Stone<\/a> wowed the crowd this morning with business and social media tips \u2013 and I can\u2019t wait to see the newest <a href=\"http:\/\/superbowl-ads.com\/article_archive\/\">commercials<\/a> along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/super-bowl\/index.ssf\/2012\/02\/super_bowl_xlvi_madonnas_dream_halftime_show_set.html\">Madonna\u2019s half-time performance<\/a>. And the game of course!<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s your Super Bowl pick? Let me know by posting a comment or e-mailing me\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Andrews_ASI\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timothymandrews\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timasitv\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter which team scores the Super Bowl trophy, ASI member companies printing T-shirts, jackets and other sports-related memorabilia will be big winners this weekend. Hundreds of ad specialty companies are sure to work into the wee hours Sunday into Monday to get Super Bowl items to eager sports fans. We spoke to Jay Meyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-member-benefits","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","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=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}