iClick announces Jeff Hall as new President

We're pleased to announce that we've hired Jeff Hall as our new president at iClick. "Jeff's vast experience in high-growth, customer-service focused technology companies will help us succeed in our fast-paced business," said Lon McGowan, CEO and founder.

iClick is a 2010 Promo Marketing Excellence Award winner for the Computer Accessories category!

Look for us in the July issue of Promo Marketing!

Results: Much lower than RoHS approved limits for lead content.

The RoHS Directive requires that the maximum permitted concentrations of hazardous materials (click here for full list) are 0.1% or 1,000 parts per million.

During Promotions East 2010, Prime Resources Corp. was running free independent testing on any product submitted to them at the tradeshow. Niko Pamboukas submitted 2 of iClick's stocks models - the iClick and the Langley USB Flash Drives. Both were found to contain well below the RoHS approved levels. We have attached the results below for you to view as well. Just another way iClick is helping it's clients provide high quality products in the marketplace!

Read more on RoHS restrictions here.

In-Stock iClick Model Results:

In-Stock Langley Model Results:

iClick, named one of the industries top 10 fastest growing suppliers for 2010

Counselor names iClick #3 in the Top 10 fastest-growing suppliers of 2010. To qualify, companies have to provide Counselor with their promotional product revenues for the past three full years (2007, 2008, and 2009). Revenue in 2007 has to have been more than $200,000, and the company has to show growth in each of the three years. Counselor then calculates the rate of revenue growth over that period to arrive at the fastest growing list.

Read the full article here.

Friday Morning Meeting

We've recently moved our Friday morning meetings upstairs into a more comfortable setting... as you can see the lounge feel is in full effect and we love it!

iClick has been growing so rapidly that for last Friday's meeting, Lon thought it was time to show a "History of iClick" slideshow. Going way back to the beginning was a great overview of the mission and goals of the company as well as a fun look at past employees, many of whom are still here! Our culture started in 2001 and has stuck with us ever since... we love it here.

Following the slideshow, we played a quick game of "Survival Instincts"... do you know how to cross a Piranha filled river? One of our iClickers did!

iClick sponsors climber, Brett Martin, in the Climb for Clean Air®

2010 commemorates the 23rd anniversary of the Climb for Clean Air® - a fundraising climb of Mount Rainier. In July, roughly 50 climbers will set out to make a summit attempt on Mount Rainier. The climb will take 2 days and cover 14,410ft.

Message from Brett:

The iClick Sales Team getting ready to kick off a great show at PPAI Las Vegas.

iClick's very own Director of Sales, Niko Pamboukas, named to ASI's Advisory Board for Technology and Operations. Congratulations Niko!

ASI Names Members of Advisory Boards
Members will help shape future direction of industry

TREVOSE, PA – January 7, 2010 - Advertising Specialty Institute® has named the members voted onto its four new advisory boards.

Hundreds of ASI member companies voted during the online balloting period to help choose leaders of the boards. Here are the members of the new boards:

Technology & Operations Advisory Board

* Sandy Gonzalez - vice president, Made to Order (asi/259540)
* Sam Hornstein – COO, Avaline LLC (asi/37590)
* Niko Pamboukas - director of sales, iClick (asi/62124)
* Click here for complete list

The ASI Advisory Board

* Fay Best – owner, Best Specialty Advertising Inc. (asi/138569)
* Jo-an Lantz, MAS - executive vice president and member of the board of directors, Geiger (asi/202900)
* Greg Muzzillo - co-founder and co-CEO, Proforma (asi/300094)
* Click here for complete list

Marketing, Public Relations & Industry Research Advisory Board

* Terry Brizz, PhD, EDM, MAS – president, Galaxy Balloons Inc. (asi/55675)
* Bree Kasper - marketing manager, Action Embroidery & Design Inc. (asi/104645)
* Jeff Lederer - executive vice president, Prime Line (asi/79530)
* Click here for complete list

The Safety & Legislative Advisory Board

* Bill Bradbury - director of social responsibility, Cintas Corp. (asi/162167)
* Kim Newell – president, World Wide Lines Inc. (asi/98290)
* Terry McGuire- senior vice president of marketing and vendor relations, HALO/Lee Wayne (asi/356000)
* Click here for complete list

The boards will meet regularly to discuss and debate important issues affecting the marketplace and participating leaders will recommend and take action to drive the industry forward. The new boards join ASI’s existing advisory boards for ASI Show, ASI Education and ASI’s six magazines. All boards meet in-person at least once each year and via quarterly conference calls.

“We applaud every one of the new board members for devoting their time and energy to tackling issues important to our industry,” said Timothy M. Andrews, president and chief executive officer of ASI. “We heartily encourage all of our members to share their thoughts and ideas with ASI, and especially with these new board members, as we move forward into a new year and confront and conquer fresh challenges.”

Membership on ASI boards is open to industry distributors, suppliers, decorators, multi-line reps and educators. Any ASI member company can nominate an employee for consideration by the nominating committee. A vote open to all ASI members was conducted online as part of the process to select board members. The 2011 elections will begin after the ASI Show New York, taking place Tuesday, May 4 – Thursday, May 6.

About ASI
Advertising Specialty Institute is the largest media and marketing organization serving the advertising specialty industry, with a membership of over 26,000 distributor firms (sellers) and supplier firms (manufacturers) of advertising specialties. Supplier firms use ASI print and electronic resources to market products to over 22,000 ASI distributor firms. Distributor firms use ASI print and electronic resources, which contain nearly every product in the industry from more than 3,500 reputable suppliers, to locate supplier firms and to market services to buyers. ASI provides catalogs, information directories, newsletters, magazines, websites and databases, and offers e-commerce, marketing and selling tools. Visit ASI online at asicentral.com and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, the CEO’s blog and the ASI Social Network.

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