Amazon has been frequently in the news over the past week or so with its introduction of a music streaming service, a planned entry to sell “services” a la Angie’s List and Home Advisor, is introducing a smartphone offering and probably […]
What you did some years ago. If you went to your favorite fishing hole in your business, it could be your Product Data and the way you priced product. Some are old enough to remember that when they set up […]
Internet is Impersonal With so many people growing up with astounding computer skills, a number of distributors are wondering how to utilize these skills in future business plans. Most distributors got ‘Pushed” into an ERP computer systems because they thought […]
You may remember the Wendy’s commercial called “Where’s the beef?” The essence was competitive hamburger chains had small burgers. With e-Commerce initiatives we could ask “where’s the content?” While launching an initiative can be costly (time and financial), the bigger […]
Last week I was at the NAED South-Central which was held in Tampa. While the reported attendance was about 675-700 individuals, consisting of 75 distributor entities (including multiples of CED, Sonepar, etc), 122 manufacturer entities, and the remainder being reps […]
Regarding the post from February 12, 2014. This writer expressed an opinion about Epicor that apparently was not construed as an opinion by Epicor. Such statement was as follows: “Sometimes I think that I read too many 10-Q’s and other public documents. Many […]
The past few weeks have been a little unusual for me as it seems to be “e-time.” A number of conversations, and some engagements, have revolved around e-initiatives. They include: website redesign with e-commerce initiative that has resulted in a […]
Last week NEMRA held its annual meeting in Atlanta. Since we weren’t there and periodically we ask industry leaders to share their thoughts on ElectricalTrends, we asked Ken Hooper, President of NEMRA, to share an update. And while I share […]
Last week I attended the NAED Western which was held at the Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix. I hadn’t attended the Western in awhile so it was good to see a number of old friends on the distributor side as […]
As we get ready to close the page on another successful year, we wanted to thank you for your readership and support. Over the past year we’ve: posted 69 thoughts, observations and insights which we hope were beneficial to you […]
