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<\/a><\/p>\nWe know the all-day, online event is effective because exhibiting suppliers experience an average 24% increase in ESP searches the day after each show. And more searches mean more sales.<\/p>\n
On average, exhibitors at Wednesday’s virtual trade show – ASI’s fourth – spent 66 minutes in the virtual environment and exchanged 4,548 instant messaging chats. And distributors completed 5,404 supplier surveys.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s show featured several top suppliers, including Tri-Mountain\/Mountain Gear (asi\/92125<\/em>), Americanna Co. (asi\/35730<\/em>), Graphco Line (asi\/57956<\/em>) and The Magnet Group (asi\/68507<\/em>). Exhibitors showcased everything from bumper stickers, key tags and bottled water to apparel, phone accessories, food and gifts.<\/p>\n If you missed this week’s show, you can access it on-demand at www.asicentral.com\/vts<\/a> through June 15.<\/p>\n Everyone I’ve talked to says the virtual experience is a terrific way for distributors to chat one-on-one with suppliers providing interactive video at their booths – while drinking coffee from the comfort of their office.<\/p>\n Virtual events certainly won’t replace our bricks-and-mortar shows (New York is next week!) , but definitely qualify as\u00a0an added bonus.\u00a0 So we’ll host two more this year, on Wednesday, June 16, and Wednesday, September 22.<\/p>\n Let me know how your virtual experience went by posting a comment or emailing me here<\/a>. I’m also on Twitter<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We held our fourth virtual trade show this week and all distributor feedback to date can be summed up in one word: great. Only one thing can make the virtual experience better – and that’s even more suppliers. We know the all-day, online event is effective because exhibiting suppliers experience an average 24% increase in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-industry-initiatives","category-news-about-asi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}