TJM Goes To The ASI Show Orlando!

TJM Promos recently attended the Advertising Specialty Institute Show in Orlando, FL!

ASI holds multiple trade shows throughout the year in various locations around the country, and we love attending the show when possible. The ASI shows provide a fantastic opportunity to meet new vendors, manufacturers, and industry leaders, and we always have a blast.

This year's show in Orlando was certainly no exception. Many of the TJM sales managers (and Mark, the social media guy) took the trip down to Orlando to attend training sessions, listen to inspirational speakers, and walk the tradeshow floor.

The first day of the show consisted of training sessions hosted by industry leaders and motivational speakers, with a variety of topics covered. Topics included customer service training, social media, management, graphic design, and brainstorming. The training sessions are a great opportunity to meet other people in the promotional product industry and talk shop.

With thousands of attendees and hundreds of booths on the tradeshow floor, ASI Orlando filled out the North concourse of the Orange County Convention Center. When the show floor opened Thursday morning, attendees were able to visit with vendors and suppliers from around the world. Nearly every sort of promotional product you could imagine was on display, with business owners on hand to talk about their new and/or improved products.

Overall, we had a wonderful time at the ASI Show Orlando, and we're already looking forward to the next one. We'd like to give a huge shout out to ASI for not only inviting us to the show, but giving us the VIP treatment with our own staging room and everything.

Here's what some of us had to say about our time at the show:

Courtney Cole: The ASI show was FANTASTIC! It was the first time I had been to something like that. I learned so much from the classes and getting to meet some of our current vendors as well as potential new ones.

Elizabeth Kirby: Not only was the ASI Show fun, but it was extremely educational and helpful.  I feel like I have more knowledge in the vendors that we already work with and new ones that we can work with in the future.  It also helped provide me with more knowledge to better serve our customers as well. I can’t wait for the next one!

Tim Allison: The ASI convention was a sensory overload that inspired ideas that will lead to many solutions for our client’s promotional needs.

Mark Anderson: As a social media strategist, there was plenty for me to learn and see at the ASI Orlando Show. I enjoyed the training sessions, and I had a great time walking around the show floor and seeing all of the promotional products and apparel on display.

To learn more about the Advertising Specialty Institute, click here: http://www.asicentral.com/

Check out some more photos of the ASI Orlando Show here:

Dozens of vendor displays welcome you to the ASI Show Orlando, even before you get to the trade show floor.

A table full of challenge coins, one of our most popular products.

Vendors often bring mascots or elaborate displays to attract your attention on the show floor.

Always solid advice.

No show is truly complete without the original Batmobile, of course.

Last, but certainly not least, here’s Sales Floor Manager Matt Fischer learning some sweet new moves from an inflatable air dancer: