Did you ever get the feeling that you are doing business with one person, and then he “sells” that job to someone else and marks up the cost so he can get a cut?
Honesty goes a long way, and being able to tell your customers they would sometimes be better off working directly with another vendor is a good idea.
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Greg Ehrich, LC is the former President of the National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and owner of Premier Lighting, a progressive lighting distributorship.
Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste.
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