Last week was a tough one for the stock market as it dropped for another week with one day dropping 280 points on a quartet of bad news … low new hiring (only 54,000 new non-farm jobs), the ISM manufacturing purchasing […]
Ran across a couple of things today that caught the eye….over 30 manufacturers are involved in ElectricSmart’s e-Cat launch (including some surprising names), ABB used a convention specific blog and did you know that good sales and marketing requires 14 […]
According to the Wall Street Journal is Clean Energy. And yes, that does beg the question of “What is Clean Energy?” It appears that Clean Energy is the antithesis of Dirty Energy, which infers fossil fuels. The ensuing articles in […]
With the stroke of a tax pen, will businesses migrate? On January 13, 2011 Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a tax bill that effectively raises personal and business taxes on all that live in the state. What was the old […]
Lately we’ve been having conversations with a number of manufacturers, and some distributors, about reconnecting with customers and better understanding their markets. Why? In an effort to either affect demand creation; to promote their brand; and to support new product development. One […]
Okay, less than 75 days left till the end of the year. Planning for 2011 is well underway in many companies, or quickly will be. A-D and IMARK members have already held their annual meetings, enabling them to start next […]
You’ve probably heard, ad nauseum, that the lighting arena, also portrayed as energy efficiency, is one of the few bright spots in the electrical industry. And yes, it is and is expected to be one of the strongest, if not […]
Crescent, CED and Siemens have made the news so far this week. Each represents “change”, and opportunity, for distributors. Crescent announced that it hired Dennis DeSousa as SVP Business Development. This is interesting as Dennis was a long-time Graybar employee […]
Over the past 1 1/2 to 2 years we’ve had a number of electrical manufacturers and distributors ask us why we think that there have hasn’t been much consolidation during the “great recession” that supposedly we have come out of. […]
We apologize for not having written in the past week and a half, however, client travel sometimes creates timing issues (and you probably don’t want me writing real late at night!) But was listening to CNBC this afternoon. They had […]
David Gordon
Channel Marketing Group
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