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May 18, 2004, Trevose, PA \u2013<\/strong> Advertising Specialty Institute, the largest member organization in the promotional products industry, announced that more than 70% of its ESP subscribers have upgraded to ESP Online since January \u2013 much more quickly than anticipated. <\/p>\n

Because the upgrade program allows additional users for no additional fee, the total number of ESP users is up 152% since January \u2013 putting promotional products from ASI-listed suppliers in front of thousands more industry sales professionals than ever before.<\/p>\n

Subscribers like Kitty Bruns at Acadian Promotional Products, Inc. in Lake Charles, LA are thrilled with ESP Online. \u201cI use ESP Online at least five times a day. I was using a competitor\u2019s product and found that it couldn\u2019t come close to doing what ESP Online does for me,\u201d Burns says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been wonderful to be able to email proposals and ideas to my clients on a daily basis. When I\u2019m researching for one client, I often run across something that sparks an idea for another. Right then, I can shoot them an email,\u201d Burns continues. \u201cESP Online lets me stay in front of my customers without actually being there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pleased with the reception of ESP Online, Timothy M. Andrews, ASI president says, \u201cThe response we\u2019ve received to ESP Online serves to reinforce our commitment to rethink and, where necessary, redesign every ASI product \u2013 including catalogs and magazines \u2013 to meet today’s supplier and distributors needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, we won\u2019t rest on a few compliments or an early success. Later this year we plan to add many more features and functions to ESP Online, each designed to help distributors be more productive and more profitable,\u201d Andrews notes.<\/p>\n

ESP Online, provided at no additional cost to subscribers of ESP on DVD, allows distributors to spend more time marketing to customers and less time looking for promotional products.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the greatest selling tool ever created for promotional products. It blows the competition out of the water,\u201d says Robert Haight of Flint Advertising Specialties in Burton, MI. \u201cI\u2019m amazed at how easy it is to use. What was once a tedious job is now easy. I just finished a big job for a client that would have taken all day in the past, but with ESP Online I completed it in less than two hours. The client was excited about what I was able to provide in so short a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sue Rigler of Links Marketing Group in Hawthorne, CA has been using ESP since she began selling ad specialties. \u201cI\u2019ve always done business using ESP. The new online ESP is much more complete and easier to use and view than any competing product,\u201d says Rigler. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do what I do without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advertising Specialty Institute is the largest media organization serving 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, Web sites and databases, and provides a variety of interactive business, marketing and selling tools.<\/p>\n

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