DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 2
DistributED: The David White Exit Interview, Part 1
Business Blast: Being Everything To Everyone
Contractor’s Corner: Bridging the Generation Gap
By Jim Williams Welcome to the initial Contractors’ Corner for 2015! We wanted to start the year out with an interesting topic – Spanning the Generation Gap between Distributors and Contractors.…
No Where To Go But Up…
By Jim Williams No Where To Go But Up… The quote in its entirety is, “When you’ve hit rock bottom, there’s no where to go but up.” – Anonymous OK,…
Distributors: Get Your e-Commerce Strategy Down to a Science
Publisher’s note: tED magazine realizes that a large number of our readers saw the story we posted on Buffalo Electric Supply and its partnership with AmazonSupply.com, Testing Out The AmazonSupply Waters.…
Ace Hardware Plans Huge Projections For 2015 In The Contrac [...]
Publishers note: I heard from Ace Hardware in response to this column. Ace explains that the rewards program expands far beyond just the online thesupplyplace website. Any customer, including those…
What You Might Not Know About Your Relationship With AmazonSupply
By Bridget McCrea Whether distributors align themselves with AmazonSupply or other online e-tailers is purely a personal choice, but there are some key considerations that should be factored into such…
$6,000 is the New $7,000 – Copper Prices Continue to Tumble
By Jim Williams Copper prices fell below $6,000 per ton for the first time in over five years on Monday. The metal fell to as low as $5,966 on Monday,…
3 Truths To Guide Your 2015
By Dirk Beveridge 2015 will be a tipping point for many distributors. The research for my new book, INNOVATE! How Successful Distributors Lead Change In Disruptive Times, uncovered that 85% of distribution…