{"id":2693,"date":"2014-07-16T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2014-07-16T22:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:53:53","slug":"celebrating-with-fun-and-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2014\/07\/16\/celebrating-with-fun-and-flair\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating with Fun and Flair"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASI is celebrating its 15th anniversary of hosting a national trade show in the great city of Chicago with a ton of fun and flair. The show features info-packed education sessions, top-flight suppliers, team-building distributor sales meetings and awesome presentations. \"\"<\/p>\n

ASI Chicago\u00a0takes place through Thursday, July 17, at McCormick Place and features numerous Counselor<\/em>\u00ae<\/sup> Top 40 suppliers and over 100 exhibitors new to Chicago this year. The show is a big draw to entrepreneurs, CEOs and small business owners located throughout the Midwest, and beyond.<\/p>\n

At the traditional ASI Show dinner attended by show employees ASI\u2019s chairman, Norman Cohn, shared some wonderful stories about our 15 years in Chicago, which is one of my all-time favorite cities to visit. We all love coming here and hope everyone is enjoying everything the city has to offer (including those amazing restaurants).<\/p>\n

At the show, Thursday’s highlight is sure to be Erik Wahl, a best-selling business author who believes creativity is the new corporate capital, who will actually paint right on stage during his keynote.\"\"<\/p>\n

ASI\u2019s education featured a special half-day session with business guru Stephen M.R. Covey titled \u201cSelling at the Speed of Trust.\u201d Education also included a new Screen-Printing Success Track, part of ASI\u2019s new relationship with ST Media, sponsored by Workhorse Products.\"\"<\/p>\n

As part of this new relationship, we also unveiled the news Signage + Decoration Pavilion, featuring well-known equipment companies and live education (both days). I hope you take the time to stop by and check it out.<\/p>\n

Chicago is a city that loves its art \u2013 both public street art and on display in wonderful museums. In a nod to that creativity, ASI did something really fun: glued a variety of promotional products donated by ASI suppliers to a used Mazda we then drove 750 miles from ASI headquarters in Philadelphia to the show, where it\u2019s on display and available for people to sign and get their photo taken.<\/p>\n

The car is intended to drive attention to the industry\u2019s ingenuity and to the products themselves. Nothing says durable like surviving a trip through four states on a high-speed interstate! During the drive we only lost a single product. If you took pics of the car please post to your social media using hashtag #ASIpromocar.<\/p>\n

The show excitement continued at the prestigious 2014 Counselor<\/em>\u00ae <\/sup>Awards, held this year at Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications. At the black-tie ceremony, Counselor<\/em> announced the Top 40 Distributors and Top 40 Suppliers rankings \u2013 the largest companies in the $20.5 billion promotional products industry, based upon 2013 revenue. We also named Norman Hullinger, CEO of alphabroder (asi\/34063), as Person of the Year and Suzanne Worwood, merchandising VP of 4imprint Inc. (asi\/197045), as International Person of the Year.<\/p>\n

Go to www.asicentral.com<\/a> for complete coverage of the show, including blogs and videos from ASI\u2019s on-site editorial team. For more photos, be sure to visit the ASI Show Facebook<\/a> page and ASI\u2019s Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ASI is celebrating its 15th anniversary of hosting a national trade show in the great city of Chicago with a ton of fun and flair. The show features info-packed education sessions, top-flight suppliers, team-building distributor sales meetings and awesome presentations. ASI Chicago\u00a0takes place through Thursday, July 17, at McCormick Place and features numerous Counselor\u00ae Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1,7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-community","category-members","category-news-about-asi","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","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=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}