{"id":2165,"date":"2016-06-06T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asi2.wpenginepowered.com\/uncategorized\/asi-celebrates-esp-websites-15000th-customer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:25:36","slug":"asi-celebrates-esp-websites-15000th-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/asi-celebrates-esp-websites-15000th-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI Celebrates ESP Websites&#8217; 15,000th Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ASI member bizINTOUCH of Houston, TX publishes milestone ESP Website<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>TREVOSE, PA \u2013 December 10, 2014 \u2013 <\/strong>The Advertising Specialty Institute<sup class=\"register\">\u00ae <\/sup>(ASI) today celebrated the 15,000th customer to publish an ESP Website, ASI member bizInTouch of Houston, TX.<span style=\"line-height: normal; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ESP Websites\u2122 launched in May 2012 and recently hit its 15,000th milestone. In 2014 alone, ESP Websites and Company Stores\u2122 that ASI hosts for suppliers and distributors attracted a total of 5.7 million visitors, a 30% increase over the previous year.<span style=\"line-height: normal; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Charlie Braun owns bizInTouch (asi\/140737), a marketing services provider of promotional products, print, direct mail and email. Braun, a Mississippi native who segued into promotional products after 20 years of running a successful print shop, said he chose ASI\u2019s ESP Websites because \u201cI was blown away by the ease of use and the friendliness of the website. It\u2019ll propel me to where I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3; background-color: transparent;\">End-buyer-friendly ESP Websites are created specifically for the promotional products industry, combining ESP (the industry\u2019s first, largest and most advanced sourcing system) and a fast, dynamic shopping engine. For those new to creating and managing business websites, ASI supplies both pre-loaded and ready-to-use material such as videos, news and over half a million \u00a0promotional products. No IT skills are necessary. ESP Websites\u2019 benefits include:<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immediate browse-and-buy functionality<\/li>\n<li>Social media integration<\/li>\n<li>One-click virtual sample technology<\/li>\n<li>Rotating \u201cProduct of the Day\u201d feature<\/li>\n<li>Unique product codes that prevent prospects from price shopping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWhen Charlie Braun wanted to take his small business to the next level, he turned to ASI and ESP Websites,\u201d said Timothy M. Andrews, ASI president and chief executive officer. \u201cEvery day, distributor websites like his make it easier to do business and attract new clients through a professional looking site that\u2019s a snap to manage. We\u2019re thrilled Charlie and bizInTouch hit the magic milestone number. I can\u2019t wait until ESP Websites celebrates its millionth customer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESP Websites is really amazing,\u201d said Bill Smith Jr., executive vice president of Brown &amp; Bigelow (asi\/148500), which gave ESP Websites to top reps throughout its network to help them stand apart from the competition and win sales. \u201cThe designs look incredible and the features \u2013 social media, virtual samples and true e-commerce \u2013 are fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This month, ASI upgraded ESP\u2019s fast, robust e-commerce search engine, powered by Oracle\u2019s Endeca platform, to help members further improve conversion rates and increase average order size. ASI\u2019s ESP platform (Web, online and websites) now also offers a new custom products tool to improve managing special products in Company Stores. In addition, thanks to flexible search, users can search quantity and price independently.<span style=\"line-height: 1.3;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, advertisers can enjoy increased visibility, with \u201cTop Sellers\u201d updated to 80 spots and additional updates to \u201cYou May Also Like\u201d and new \u201cProduct Quick View.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASI will demonstrate all of ESP\u2019s latest features at <em>ASI Show<\/em><sup class=\"register\">\u00ae<\/sup> Orlando, Sunday, January 4, through Tuesday, January 6, at the Orange County Convention Center. The show also features a Q&amp;A with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak January 6 at 8:30 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASI member bizINTOUCH of Houston, TX publishes milestone ESP Website TREVOSE, PA \u2013 December 10, 2014 \u2013 The Advertising Specialty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASI Celebrates ESP Websites&#039; 15,000th Customer &#8226; ASI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/asi-celebrates-esp-websites-15000th-customer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASI Celebrates ESP Websites&#039; 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