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Marketing Momentum: Is Your Marketing On-Trend?
By Katrina Olson Last month, I judged tED magazine’s Best of the Best Marketing Competition along with Shad Thomas of Chicago-based Glass Box Research, industry veteran and consultant Hank Bergson,…
Upping Your Lighting Game in a Competitive Marketplace, Part II
By Bridget McCrea When it comes to electrical contractors, taking the “show don’t tell” approach to new product introductions can work wonders. In the April issue of tED magazine,…
Upping Your Lighting Game in a Competitive Marketplace, Part I
By Bridget McCrea How to work with contractors that are looking at their bottom lines and saying, “Hey, how can we get a better price on our lighting products?” In…
Copper News – China Impacts Price; French Election Expected
By Jim Williams The French election didn’t impact the price of copper too much, but news out of China has tilted the scales to start the week. The election in…
Distribution Revolution
By Susan Bloom Drivers and robots and planes, oh my! Amazon’s recent investments reveal the online retail giant’s continued pursuit of cutting-edge, out-of-the-box logistics strategies. Research into Amazon’s recent corporate…
The Distributor Salesperson of the Future
By Bridget McCrea The value of knowing everything and becoming a customer’s “right hand man” will come in pretty handy for the electrical distribution sales force of the future. Anyone…
Copper: The Yo-Yo Effect
By Jim Williams Five months into 2017 and we still can’t determine where the price of copper is going. The red metal hit a three-week high on Monday thanks to…