{"id":197,"date":"2009-12-21T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/12\/21\/educating-buyers-in-today%e2%80%99s-philadelphia-inquirer\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:44:54","slug":"educating-buyers-in-today%e2%80%99s-philadelphia-inquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/12\/21\/educating-buyers-in-today%e2%80%99s-philadelphia-inquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating Buyers in Today\u2019s Philadelphia Inquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> featured a story about the growth of hand sanitizers in our industry &#8211; educating end-buyers about the value of providing useful advertising specialties to their clients and prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To watch the video, &#8220;Philadelphia Business Today&#8221; (starts automatically), <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/business\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the article online, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/phillyinc\/Hand_sanitizer_becomes_a_hot_advertising_medium.html\">click here<\/a><\/strong>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Sanitizer.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story centers on how hand sanitizers now rival pens as one of the most popular logoed items. As we reported last week, searches of the key words &#8220;hand sanitizers&#8221; by promotional products distributors via ESP Online jumped 439% for the period between October 2009 and October 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only searches for pens &#8211; which for years have been the best-selling logoed product in the promotional products industry &#8211; were higher that period.\u00a0 In addition, searches for sanitizer products of all kinds jumped by triple digits this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Send the link to my blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timandrewsblog.com\/\">http:\/\/www.timandrewsblog.com\/<\/a>) to all your clients and prospects, as an idea for a product they might be interested in for their customers.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your hottest product for 2009? \u00a0Please post a comment or email me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;m also on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Andrews_ASI\">Twitter<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timothymandrews\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timasitv\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer featured a story about the growth of hand sanitizers in our industry &#8211; educating end-buyers about the value of providing useful advertising specialties to their clients and prospects.\u00a0 To watch the video, &#8220;Philadelphia Business Today&#8221; (starts automatically), click here. To read the article online, click here. The story centers on how hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-initiatives","category-media-coverage","category-news-about-asi","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}