{"id":86,"date":"2008-10-08T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2008\/10\/08\/learning-from-startups-wearables-trends-and-rising-prices\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:14:29","slug":"learning-from-startups-wearables-trends-and-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2008\/10\/08\/learning-from-startups-wearables-trends-and-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Startups, Wearables Trends and Rising Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASI was the winner of four national awards for editorial and design from FOLIO: <\/em>magazine recently, recognizing coverage in our magazines of wearables trends, rising prices, and challenges running successful startups – among other topics important to your business right now.<\/em>
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\nThe awards were for two Counselor <\/em>articles, one entitled “Anatomy of a Startup,” by Andy Cohen<\/a>, Joe Haley<\/a> and Melinda Ligos<\/a>, that won a Bronze Award for ‘Best Feature Writing’ and\u00a0chronicled the ups-and-downs of three new distributorships during their first few months in business.\u00a0 The other article,\u00a0“Sticker Shock,” by Michele Bell,<\/a> won a Gold Award for\u00a0‘Best Feature Writing’ and\u00a0included\u00a0six reasons why prices of advertising specialties are rising and offered a plan to help distributors sell clients on a price increase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, the June issue of Wearables\u00a0<\/em>(Nicole Rollender<\/a>, editor), <\/em>received a Gold Award for ‘Best B-to-B Full Issue’\u00a0and was selected for covering the latest apparel trends, including underwear and five different categories of novelty T-shirts.\u00a0 And, the article “Damage Control,” by Michele Bell in Supplier Global Resource,<\/em> won a Silver Award for ‘Best Feature Writing’ and was chosen for providing information about handling potentially toxic products and what the ethical responsibilities for testing are.
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I urge you to read each of the magazine issues – because they are packed with information that is likely affecting how you’re selling products to customers right now or running your business at the moment.\u00a0 To read the winning articles,<\/font><\/strong> click here<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the FOLIO:<\/em> competition, more than 100 judges <\/em>reviewed 2,800 entries and magazines from ASI were recognized among several legacy publications throughout North America, including Fast Company<\/em>, National Geographic, Newsweek<\/em> and TIME<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tell me what you think – post a comment now on the blog or email me at tim.andrews@asicentral.com<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also watch my videos of new products, at youtube.com\/timasitv<\/a>.<\/p>\n