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Filed under: LogoMall, Logomall features, Marketing, Member Benefits
Not even a week after my daughter’s last day of kindergarten, I received the Pottery Barn Kids “Back to School” catalog. What perfect timing. I have been looking forward to buying a new backpack and lunch bag for months. Her filthy, falling apart, disgusting back pack went in the trash the last day of school. Can you say “Goodbye Hello Kitty lunch bag”?
If you target the education market, your clients are probably eager to get started with fresh new ideas and programs for the 2010 – 2011 year. Get your clients thinking about back to school programs on your LogoMall web site. The tools and content that we have developed for the Back to School season will help you take the work out of promoting and help boost your Q3 sales.
Back to School Featured Products
We pre-selected school items into a mini-store for you to promote specifically to the education market. The Back to School featured product set will appear in left navigation on your site and you can have a selection of those products appear on your home page. All you need to do is add the set to your site which can easily be done through ASIsecure.com.
Back to School LogoMall Categories
Highlight school related categories in your navigation so shoppers can get ideas and start browsing your vast selection of products. If you can search for it on LogoMall, you can add a link to it “school”, “cheering”, “backpacks”. Take a look at the navigation at sales.logomall.com. The Select-a-Search links can be added to your site through ASIsecure.com.
Back to School Product Collages
Showcase products for Back to School right on your home page. We created crisp product collages that show a sampling of the type of products that you can offer your clients. Visit www.getlogomall.com/collages for collage options.

Back to School Videos
Video is an effective way to get your message across. It engages your site visitors and encourages shopping. Our video spokesperson can be added to your site when you upgrade to our LogoMall marketing package. View a video sample at sales.logomall.com.
Email Marketing
Drive your customers to your online back to school promotions through an email marketing blast or e-newsletter. You can feature articles about effective Back to School promotions and the power of promotional products. ASI members can take advantage of great pricing with our email marketing affiliate, RatePoint. For a free trial, visit www.asicentral.com/ratepoint.
As always, our support team is available to assist you with updating your web site. Call us at 800.546.1350 and ask for your eMedia Coordinator.
Thursday February 18, 2010
Filed under: LogoMall, Marketing, Member Benefits, New Features, Tips and Tricks
Email marketing is powerful. No other medium gives you the instant results that an email marketing campaign can produce. You know immediately who is opening your email and what they clicked. However, now your promotions and informational content no longer need to be limited to just the email addresses on your list. With social media added to the mix, you significantly expand your audience exponentially (think: Twitter and Facebook!).
RatePoint, ASI’s email marketing member benefit, has just announced a new feature that easily helps you combine email marketing and social media. RatePoint’s social media option will automatically post your email marketing content such as newsletters, coupons, specials and announcements about new or hot products directly to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. With very little effort you can push out content in one location without having to go to each social media site to send your posts.
RatePoint easily connects your Twitter and Facebook accounts. You select by campaign if you want to publish your content to social media sites and then create a personalized text status message for Twitter and Facebook that will link back to your email.
Social networking sites are increasing the exposure of your marketing campaigns and stretching your marketing dollars. And the audience is not limited to the number of contacts or followers you have. Search engines like Google are quickly indexing social media content such as Twitter posts. By pushing out good messages with valuable content, you enhance how your potential customers will learn about your business and how you can provide promotional product solutions for them.
More eyes on your brand, more eyes on your web site, more potential for sales. It’sthat simple.
A Free account is now available for up to 125 contacts. When you upgrade to a paid subscription with more email contacts, ASI has negotiated great pricing for you. The new social media tools are free to use with the trial and any paid subscription. Visit www.asicentral.com/ratepoint to sign up for your Free account today.
Filed under: LogoMall, Logomall features, Member Benefits
How long will it take you to get in the habit of using 2010 instead of 09? For me, it will take until about June. It will be a hard habit to break but the change to a new year feels good. I just returned from the ASI Show in (teeth chattering) Orlando and the vibe for the 2010 selling year is positive. We are all ready for a prosperous new year.
With the new year/decade comes new ways to actively sell through your web site with ASI catalogs. What’s new? Spectrum® 2010 catalogs can now be imprinted with your full color logo for free. And when you buy Spectrum 2010 for your customers, we’ll add an exciting new digital version complete with virtual sample capability to your LogoMall site for free too. We can also add a text link or you can use our new animated cover version. It grabs the attention of your visitor and pulls them in to browsing through the hundreds of products very easily with their very own logo on the item.
The Spectrum 2010 catalog is jammed packed with an assortment of products to give you and your customer ideas for that next promotion. Promotional buyers always want to know what has worked for other customers and campaigns. Spectrum 2010 features over a dozen pages of Customer Favorites in the front of the book highlighting items such as green shopping totes, stainless steel water bottles and the ever popular light up/glow party favors.
Use Spectrum 2010 as a marketing vehicle to drive traffic to your web site and take advantage of the new full color imprinting available that includes your web address.
Order Spectrum 2010 online or contact our Catalog Sales team at 800-546-1365 or at catalogs@asicentral.com.
Have a Happy New Selling Year!
Filed under: LogoMall, Marketing, Member Benefits, New Features
Spark holiday shopping on your LogoMall site with email marketing. It’s a highly effective way to communicate your creative gift ideas, recognition and award programs. Email is a cost effective vehicle for reaching the right customer, at the right time, with the right product or special offer. Not only is it affordable, but email marketing delivers immediate results.
ASI’s newest affiliate, RatePoint, makes it easy for you to create and send your own email marketing campaigns. They offer over 100 ready-to-go designs to create professional email marketing campaigns on your own without a designer. You simply add in your own copy, company logo and sharp product images that you can pull directly from LogoMall. Or, your designer can create an html email and upload it.
RatePoint helps you to build and manage your email contact lists including requests to unsubscribe which is a mandatory process to abide by Can Spam. Once your email campaign is sent you can monitor the activity using their at-a-glance report. You’ll know how many prospects opened your email and exactly who clicked links to your web site.
In addition to an easy to use email marketing tool, RatePoint also helps you to build your online business credibility by collecting and publishing feedback from your customers. You can easily post this valuable content on your LogoMall site to help turn prospects into customers. Powerful customer testimonials establish your online business reputation and build confidence in your online visitors.
RatePoint is offering a 30 day FREE trial. Try it out for yourself at www.asicentral.com/ratepoint. You don’t even need a credit card number for the trial period. As an ASI member, you get great pricing on their subscription service. It’s less the $10 a month, to send unlimited email marketing campaigns to a list size of 500 or less.
So…how will you be promoting this holiday season?
Filed under: Member Benefits
The ASI marketing team has been hard at work to launch a new web site to help you with your own marketing efforts in 2008. This comprehensive site, located at www.thenumberthatmatters.com/marketing provides you with strategies for branding and selling and gives you the tactics you need to achieve your marketing objectives. The site provides real tools, used and proven by the ASI marketing department, for calculating your ROI on your marketing campaigns and tracking your hard earned leads.
The site also covers marketing for your own web site under the Internet tab. Current topics are Search Engine Marketing for Google and Yahoo and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics. We’ll be adding more internet marketing strategies, tools and tactics throughout the year.
We hope that you take advantage of this new member benefit to kick start your marketing in 2008.
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