Beyond Your Business Reach?
Good Business Year, But???? Beyond my reach you say? I’ve (We’ve) had a very good year. I’m not bragging mind you, but my company has had a good year except maybe with LED’s. What do you mean “Beyond Your Reach?” […]
Good Business Year, But???? Beyond my reach you say? I’ve (We’ve) had a very good year. I’m not bragging mind you, but my company has had a good year except maybe with LED’s. What do you mean “Beyond Your Reach?” […]
As we close the year, we would like to thank you for your support, your readership and your input. Our goal for ElectricalTrends is to provide some thought leadership, share opinions and comments about what’s going on in the electrical […]
This posting is adapted from a recent article in Channel Marketing Group‘s newsletter. The thoughts in italics are added commentary. “As we close out the year we thought we’d share observations from conversations we’ve had with manufacturers and distributors recently. […]
In the October issue of Electrical Wholesaling magazine we asked the question of whether Amazon Supply could compete with traditional distributors by using the traditional distributors inventory as a source of supply for MRO type of sales. Some have asked if […]
A couple of weeks ago we had a posting that related to Cree’s significant share drop based upon a pre-announcement of “missing” on analyst projections (and not really by a lot to us lay people) and mentioning that the LED […]
With some wondering about how Amazon Supply and the Big Boxes might affect their business in 2015, now is a good time to pre-plan how you face your customer online in 2015. Instead of reacting, now is a good time […]
As I sit writing this post on the eve of one of the largest IPOs ever, Alibaba, I’ve been debating if this post should be about the beginning of the end of distribution to many market segments and hence the […]
Welcome back from your Labor Day weekend. And with the unofficial end of summer brings the meeting and planning season. The time when everyone starts asking what’s your forecast for 2015, and management asks itself, “what are we going to […]
Usage of the fax machine began to peak in the late 1980s and continued into the early 2000s, with email becoming prevalent in 1993. Now, why mention this? Consider about 35+ years ago. Fax machines were not too prevalent. Contractors, […]
NEMRA has retained Channel Marketing Group to better understand the state of POS (point of sale) reporting in the electrical distribution industry for the purpose of accurately compensating independent electrical manufacturer sales representatives for activity in their territory. Over the […]
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