NAED held its 2018 Women in Industry (WII) conference the last week in June and it was one of the most talked about conference that I have heard about in a while. I received feedback from a number of clients […]
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NEMRA’s POS reporting initiative received significant distribution support last month when IMARK Group’s board of directors endorsed support for the standards, hence taking a leadership position in the importance of manufacturer reps. The Board motion encourages IMARK members to review […]
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Disruption Discussed at the 2018 NAED National
Upon reflection, the recent 2018 NAED National Meeting seemed to have three themes … disruption, digitalization and a sense that the association is moving from seeking to be inclusive and attracting new members to one focused on supporting “dues paying” […]
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NAED 2018 South-Central Observations
The tone of last week’s NAED South Central, held in San Diego, was interesting and may be best described as “subdued”, business-like”, “expected”. Some used the word “quiet” and many were challenged when asked about trends that they observed or […]
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Last week’s NEMRA meeting proved once again that much gets accomplished when almost 2000 people from manufacturers and their sales organizations get together as NEMRA seemingly took over San Diego’s Marriott Marquis. Between a general session that unveiled new programs […]
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With the NEMRA Annual Meeting beginning next week, more will go on than just manufacturers meeting with their reps. This week NEMRA announced a number of initiatives designed to position reps who are focused on “tomorrow” for success. Key announcements […]
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Last week NAED held its Western Regional conference in Phoenix. While unfortunately I couldn’t attend due to previously scheduled client commitments outside the Western Region, we had a number of distributors and manufacturers share feedback and then others ask if we […]
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2018 NAED Eastern Recap & Observations
Just before Thanksgiving we attended the NAED Eastern Region conference which was held at the Marriott Tampa Waterside (which is a good hotel for this meeting). The Eastern kicked-off the 2018 NAED Regional Conference schedule. The meeting had a reported […]
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This week’s AD North American Meeting was attended by over 1100 people from distributor members, manufacturers and service providers who came from throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. There was a buzz in Grapevine, TX at the Gaylord Texan as […]
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The Future of Lighting has Arrived. Expect more!
Since the beginning of the year, Wendell Strong from Innovative Lighting has penned an exclusive series for ElectricalTrends titled ““Insights into the World of PoE Lighting Technology.” Wendell has been in the lighting industry for “many” years and has used […]
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