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The primary goal of the study was to compare <em>Advantage<\/em> to Promotional Marketing and Potentials in terms of content and value.<\/p>\n<p>In nine out of ten statements measuring overall benefit to the reader, <em>Advantage<\/em> rated higher than every other industry publication in its class.<\/p>\n<p>Some key findings of the study include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>2\/3 of Distributors surveyed would choose <em>Advantage<\/em> if they could receive only one industry sales magazine.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Respondents consistently consider <em>Advantage<\/em> as their first choice for ideas, sales-related issues, educational value, marketing tips, and personal and career development topics.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Over half of respondents say they look to <em>Advantage<\/em> for short news stories about industry trends in sales and marketing.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>One-third of respondents say they or their company had a sale they could directly trace to information in <em>Advantage<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>The results of the study also showed that 77% of readers have a more thorough knowledge of <em>Advantage<\/em> than they have of similar publications. Four out of five Distributors indicate they are well acquainted with <em>Advantage<\/em>. While Suppliers are just as likely to be familiar with <em>Advantage<\/em> as the other two publications studied, they were more likely to rate <em>Advantage<\/em> as higher in quality.<\/p>\n<p>When asked, &#8220;Other than <em>Advantage<\/em>, what publications do you read each month?&#8221; <em>The Counselor<\/em> was number one with over two-thirds of those surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) is the single-largest trade information center for the promotional products industry, with a membership of 20,000 Distributors (sellers) and Suppliers (manufacturers) of promotional products. Suppliers use ASI print and electronic resources to promote their products to more than 17,000 ASI Distributors. Distributors use ASI print and electronic resources, which contain more than 650,000 promotional products, to locate Supplier products and to promote their services to buyers of promotional products. ASI was founded in 1950 and employs a staff of 500. The company offers catalogs, informational directories, newsletters, magazines, websites, and databases, and provides a variety of interactive business, marketing and selling tools.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers Choose Advantage Over Other Industry Publications November 13, 2003, Trevose, PA \u2014 Advertising Specialty Institute recently commissioned an independent&#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-2180","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>Research Proves Advantage Magazine Best in Class &#8226; 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