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January 2, 2004, Trevose, PA<\/strong> \u2014 The Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), the largest member organization in the promotional products industry, announced that it plans to unveil a dramatically improved version of ESP<\/em>, the industry’s leading product research tool. ESP<\/em> Online includes a complete redesign of the user interface, elimination of the requirement for a DVD and hardware, and new pricing designed to allow distributors to subscribe to the service for every member of their sales team.<\/p>\n

ESP Online<\/em>, a new version of the classic ESP<\/em> now becomes a fully integrated online research and selling tool, allowing users to find products that meet any of thousands of possible search criteria and then immediately create a presentation ready for emailing or faxing to clients. The ESP<\/em> database, the most updated in the industry, contains data and high-quality digital images of more than 650,000 promotional products from the nation’s 3,000 leading industry suppliers.<\/p>\n

Subscribers to ESP Online<\/em> will now be able to use the vast product database from virtually any Windows-compatible personal computer that has access to the Internet. Formerly, subscribers needed to have a DVD player and the ESP<\/em> DVD, which will continue to be provided to subscribers who also want access when they aren’t connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n

Moving ESP<\/em> to the Internet also means that the product database will be refreshed continuously, ensuring subscribers have the latest product, pricing and descriptive information on the entire 650,000-product library.<\/p>\n

Not only will ESP Online<\/em> be easy to access, it will also be more affordable. ASI has overhauled its pricing, so every distributorship, large or small, can reap the benefits of ESP Online<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Our desire is to make ESP<\/em> affordable for each and every distributor salesperson who is a member of ASI, which basically means everyone in the industry,” says ASI President Timothy M. Andrews. “In today’s competitive environment, distributors simply can’t afford to have second-class information \u2013 because their clients want more, they want it faster, and they want it at the best price. At many ASI distributorships, a few people have ESP<\/em> and they do the searching for everyone else. We want to change that, so everyone can have access, and our new ESP Online<\/em> product and pricing is a giant step in that direction.”<\/p>\n

In addition to pricing for typical distributorships with a few sales people, ASI is introducing enterprise-wide pricing that will give firms with 75 or more sales professionals a set of incentives to provide ESP Online<\/em> to everyone.<\/p>\n

ASI’s product testing with clients and potential clients indicated that users can professionally use ESP Online<\/em> in less than 30 minutes, far quicker than with the former product and faster than any competing products. “If you’re selling, you want to be selling, not struggling to learn a software program,” Andrews said. “Everyone has been astounded by the speed, the product detail, and all the special features built into ESP Online<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Among ESP Online<\/em>‘s new features are:<\/p>\n