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April 23, 2008 ASI Canada April UpdateFiled under: ASI Canada Hello Everyone, Wow, it’s been a busy time in the past few weeks! During March we were busy travelling the country on the Spring Seminar Tour, this year with 14 great suppliers on tour. Response from distributors on this year’s tour was “Best Ever”! The Fall Seminar Tour is scheduled for August – keep an eye on www.asicentral.ca for more information during the month of June. Earlier this month we were at the ASI Show in Las Vegas.
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April 14, 2008 ESP Online Tricks & TipsFiled under: ESP Online Tricks & Tips Good day to all! For all that are using our ESP Online program I felt this would be a great place for each one of you to explore and find simple tricks and tips on how to use our ESP Online program to its fullest. A simple tip that not many people know about is the favorites tab. You can view the “Top Word Searches Last Week” from over 33 thousand users. This is a great way to see what the rest of the industry is looking at. Another simple tip about ESP Online is the advanced search screen, from this page you can search for creative ideas. This function can be found in the bottom left corner under “ideas”. This can and will help you find new and creative ideas for your customers up and coming events or task today. The last tip is for when that customer calls in saying “I need something between a set price range”. Here is the easy way to solve that problem. Use the idea field or just type into the “price range” field the scope and quantity and hit search. Thousands of ideas will come up and you just need to find that perfect item(s) that is best for your customer. If you enjoyed these simple tips for ESP Online keep checking back each month for new tips. Cheers! Jay
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April 13, 2008 ASI Vegas Show – it’s always a great time in Las Vegas!Filed under: ASI Las Vegas Show For me one of the hi-lites of the ASI Show has been the education day. For years I have gone a day early so that I can attend the sessions and I always learn something new. Personally I believe it’s a great way to rejuvenate sales efforts – no matter how many sessions I’ve been to I always get new ideas and tips that help me in my day to day business life. On Wednesday I attended the morning session from Canada’s own Lisa Leitch; the session was “Accelerate your sales with Innovative Advertising Specialty Campaigns”. Lisa is a great speaker and one of the things in her presentation that I was glad to hear was her encouraging attendees to use advertising specialties to promote their own companies. I’ve often questioned why many distributors don’t use the products they’re selling more effectively to demonstrate to clients the value of this medium.
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April 9, 2008 The Spring Seminar TourFiled under: News from Canada Boot Camp 1986. It was the first T.A.S.K. Force Seminar across Canada. Fast forward to Spring of 2008, 22 years later and the previously exclusive Team Task Force Seminars had morphed into the ASI Canada Seminars. Same tried and true format. Quality time with quality people. Suppliers anxious to tell their story and distributors anxious to learn about new products and those all-important selling ideas. Not to mention a bag or two full of new sales samples and literature and a lot of draw prize winners. Meeting old friends and customers and many new ones.
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April 7, 2008 Welcome to the ASI Canada Blog!Filed under: ASI Canada Welcome to our first blog. This blog will allow Fred and I an opportunity to keep you all updated on news and events that affect us right here in Canada. It will also provide a venue to discuss issues that are relevant to the Advertising Specialty Industry both in Canada and the U.S. And, of course, a place to just have some fun. Fred and I both will be contributing to this blog and encourage all of you to post comments to any of our blogs. We would also appreciate you keeping us informed on any announcements or news you have, so please feel free to post comments on the blog or send us an email. Emails for Fred can be sent to foesen@asicentral.com or loesen@asicentral.com for emails you would like to direct to me. |
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