{"id":871,"date":"2011-03-07T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:56:09","slug":"ready-set-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/03\/07\/ready-set-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Set, Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, ASI conducts the most comprehensive and important research about our industry to create the <em>Counselor<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>State of the Industry report. But we can\u2019t do it without you.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/larryb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All we ask is that you take 10 minutes to complete a survey. And you could win some great prizes just for participating. There are distributor winners chosen at random for prizes totaling $1,500 in Master Card gift cards, and suppliers can win one of three full-page ads in an ASI publication of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the survey important? Because of the in-depth reporting each year on key sales, marketing and operational metrics used every day by industry practitioners. Nowhere else do you get the scope of this detailed information about our industry. And it\u2019s free to ASI members.<\/p>\n<p>If <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/SOI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"169\" \/>you\u2019re a distributor, you can link to the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/distributor-stateoftheindustry\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Suppliers can link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicentral.com\/supplier-stateoftheindustry\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to their survey. If you\u2019d rather fill out a paper version of the study, email me at <a href=\"mailto:larry.basinait@asicentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">larry.basinait@asicentral.com<\/a>\u00a0and I\u2019ll send you the .pdf you can mail back to us. But hurry, the deadline is March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for taking the time to help the industry gather this important research. If you have any questions, please shoot me an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <em>Larry Basinait, executive director of research services<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, ASI conducts the most comprehensive and important research about our industry to create the Counselor\u00a0 State of the Industry report. But we can\u2019t do it without you. All we ask is that you take 10 minutes to complete a survey. And you could win some great prizes just for participating. There are distributor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-guest-blog","category-news-about-asi","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}