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Wednesday
March 27, 2013 Poll Results: Has Trust Between Suppliers and Distributors Improved?Filed under: Poll Results Is trust between suppliers and distributors Better, Worse or the Same today than five years ago? That’s the question we posed to our users last month, and according to our results, the answer is bleak. By a margin of 42% (93 votes) to 34% (76 votes), our users voted for “Worse” over “Better” with the remaining 24% (52 votes) saying “Same”. (Don’t miss Counselor magazine’s 3-part look at trust issues in the industry.) Here’s the complete breakdown to this poll: (TOTAL VOTES: 221)
Friday
March 1, 2013 Poll Results - Are Clients Asking for USA-Made Products? Yes!Filed under: Poll Results According to our poll results, looks like “Made in America” is back and thriving once again in the promo products industry! In early February, we posted the following question to our users: Clients are asking for USA-made products: with the following answer options:
Of the 250 total votes, almost two-thirds (163 votes, 65%) said “more”, while less than 5% (12 votes) said “less”. Rounding out the remainder of the votes were “About the same” with 17% (43 votes), and “They are indifferent” with 13% (32 votes). Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to this poll: (TOTAL VOTES: 250)
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Monday
February 4, 2013 Poll Results - Who Will Win Super Bowl?Filed under: Poll Results
Wrong. Baltimore and MVP Joe Flacco came out of the gate quickly and never looked back — despite a head-scratching power outage — defeating San Fran 34-31 and in the process left me eating crow. But thankfully I have a lot of company to help consume it. On Monday, January 28, I posted our Super Bowl poll asking who would win. Of the 232 total votes we received, 126 (54%) voted in favor of San Fran, with the remaining 106 (46%) going for Baltimore. Not a landslide, but definitely on par with the rest of the popular concensus. Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to this poll: (TOTAL VOTES: 232)
Wednesday
November 28, 2012 Poll Results: iPhone or Droid?Filed under: Poll Results For the past year or so, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android have been trading the market-share lead for smartphones, with Blackberry (queue “Taps”) continuing to fade faster than my fantasy football team. Since this is the mobile age and everyone seems to use their phones to do everything, I was curious as to what mobile device our users preferred, so I posted this fairly obvious question on ASI Central in late October: Droid or iPhone? (Answer options: iPhone, Droid, Other) In just over a month, we received over 600 votes with the strong majority (57%, 373 votes) going with the iPhone. Considering Droid’s strong late-summer surge, I was a bit surprised with their results (36%, 236 votes). The “Other” option — presumably my colleague Michele Bell and other Blackberry users — accounted for just 7% of the results, or 43 total votes. Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to that question: (TOTAL VOTES: 652)
Thursday
October 25, 2012 Poll Results: What’s Your Outlook for Children’s Products?Filed under: Poll Results With heightened legal and regulatory awareness from the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), there is obviously an intense focus on children’s products. In fact, Counselor magazine’s November 2012 cover story “Suitable for Children?” investigates this industry category that’s at a critical juncture. On September 6, we posted a poll question regarding this topic on ASI: Considering the increase of recalls and scrutiny, what’s your outlook on promos for children? Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to that question: (TOTAL VOTES: 121)
Monday
August 6, 2012 Poll Results - How do you feel about the U.S. Olympic team uniforms being made in China?Filed under: Poll Results When news first broke that U.S. athletes would be wearing uniforms at the 2012 Olympic Games in London that were made in China, there was a storm of political backlash. How could the American unis be made anywhere else but the U.S.? In response, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as well as Ralph Lauren — the company that outsourced production to China — promised Made-In-USA unis for the 2012 Winter Games. Since promotional apparel is a big part of this industry, I thought this would make a great poll question. On July 12, we posted this question on ASI Central as well as the social networks, with the following results: Of the 395 total votes, and overwhelming amount of users (262, 66%) were “outraged“, with the remaining votes split between “neither here nor there” and “not concerned at all“. Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to the question How do you feel about the U.S. Olympic team uniforms being made in China?: (TOTAL VOTES: 395)
Tuesday
March 27, 2012 Poll Results - Do You Text and Drive?Filed under: Poll Results OK, I’ll admit I still do it occasionally but certainly not as much as I used to (especially since it’s now illegal). I can’t help it though, the temptation always there at my fingertips, beckoning and teasing me with every passing minute. What am I talking about? Texting and driving, of course. For millions, it’s an addiction that can be as dangerous as any drug. And if you happen to have a smartphone and drive, well, then you’ve already got the the ingredients for this growing problem. Which got me to thinking … how many people actually TWD? So I decided to set up an informal poll on ASI Central which would give our users the opportunity to vote anonymously. The results? Stunning. Surely our users would vote honestly — after all this isn’t Facebook and you wouldn’t be incriminating yourself by writing something like, “yeah, man, every day!” attached to your account — so I figured the results would be greatly in favor of this dangerous practice. But alas! With over 60% of the votes, our users voted “No” to texting and driving! Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart, to the question Do you text while driving?: (TOTAL VOTES: 213)
Friday
March 2, 2012 Poll Results - Do You Agree With Plastic Bag Bans?Filed under: Poll Results Another ASI Central poll, another surprise result … well, at least in my opinion. On Feb. 15 — coinciding with the controversial news that the city of San Francisco expanded its plastic-bag ban to include hardware stores, gift shops and eventually restaurants — we launched a poll asking our users if they agreed with the banning of plastic bags. Given that a bag ban would bode well for our industry (re-usable promotional grocery bags could fill the void of plastic bags) but struggling with whether our users would agree with more government control, I eventually concluded that a majority of our users would vote “Nay” on this ban, thinking it would be something to the effect of 60/40. Alas, not only was I wrong but the majority of our users voted in favor of the ban, to the tune of 52%. Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart: (TOTAL VOTES: 227) Do you agree with plastic bag bans? Yes: (118 votes, 52%)
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Wednesday
February 8, 2012 Poll Results - Are You LinkedIn?Filed under: Poll Results
On January 3, we asked our users the following simple yes/no question: Have you ever used LinkedIn to get sales leads? Not a salesperson by trade, but fairly familiar with the social network LinkedIn, I didn’t believe that we’d get more than 25% of respondents saying that they have gotten sales leads there. But alas, the percentage was more than one-third (35%, 155 votes). For a social network whose primary goal is professional networking, it sure seems like a great place to mine for sales! Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart: (TOTAL VOTES: 437)
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Monday
December 19, 2011 Poll Results - Best-Selling T-Shirt Color for 2012Filed under: Poll Results Michael Jackson wrote a song about them, television began in this way, and there’s even a famous cookie named after them? What am I talking about? It’s the colors black and white! And not only are they famous for these reasons, but apparently those are the colors our users believe will be the best-selling for T-shirts in 2012. On Dec. 2, we posed the following poll question on ASI Central: What do you think will be the best-selling T-shirt color in 2012? Winning by a mere 15 votes, black was voted on most by our users (36%, 96 votes) with white coming in second (31%, 81 votes). Blue, the color I believed would be the top vote-getter, came in third (12%, 31 votes). Here’s the complete breakdown, including chart: (TOTAL VOTES: 265)
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I, like the rest of the country, seemed to be on the San Fran/Colin Kaepernick bandwagon, predicting the 49ers and their young, upstart QB would win 
We’ve closed out ASI Central’s latest poll, and again I am a bit surpised by the results.
