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Impacts On Lighting If China Weaponizes Rare Earth Metals

David Gordon Posted On June 3, 2019

We know tariffs can impact the electrical business. But rare earth metals? We’ve had tariffs after last year’s tariffs on steel, aluminum and a number of other products. The recent acceleration of tariffs on Chinese imported products (price increases from […]

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The Muddled World of Tariffs in the Electrical Industry

David Gordon Posted On May 31, 2019

For a word that wasn’t part of the national conscience, it is now front and center and bringing disruption to business. Tariffs. In an industry where price increases occurred annually, where pricing was stable except for copper, companies have now […]

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LightFair 2019. Controls are Here.

David Gordon Posted On May 29, 2019

Last week’s LightFair show in Philadelphia was a lighting and lighting control aficionado’s dream. Booths and booths of LED lighting and it seemed like 300 booths that had some sort of lighting control system. In talking with a number of […]

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What is e-Procurement?

David Gordon Posted On May 22, 2019

The article we had last month introducing Greenwing Technology as a punchout / e-Procurement resource and a new ElectricalTrends advertiser generated much feedback. Part of the reason is it is perceived that “punchouts” is “old school” and perhaps reserved for […]

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Lessons Learned from eCommerce Transformation of Office Products Distributors

David Gordon Posted On May 16, 2019

eCommerce has been all the rage the last couple of years with progressive companies leading the charge and investing in new websites as well as product content. In fact, there are companies that are now on version 2 or 3 […]

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Stan Rydzynski, 1947-2019

David Gordon Posted On May 16, 2019

It is with heavy heart for me to share that Stan Rydzynski, an associate partner at Channel Marketing Group, passed away the morning of Saturday, May 4th. Stan joined Channel Marketing Group ten years ago after a thirty-eight year career […]

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Does it feel like we’re heading into a recession …

David Gordon Posted On May 14, 2019

Or are we talking ourselves into a recession? Since the fall and the beginning of planning season there have been some economists who have been warning of a second half 2019 slowdown leading to a 2020 recession. Their prognostications were […]

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Embracing Digital Connections…Texting

David Gordon Posted On May 14, 2019

Yes, we’ve all seen it and most of us have done it…multi-tasking by listening and texting, reading and texting, sending a quick text to touch base or share a piece of information and more. While many thought “texting is for […]

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NAED 2019 National … Optimistic Outlook

David Gordon Posted On May 13, 2019

Last week’s NAED 2019 National Meeting culminated the 2019 NAED meeting season and, according to many, “thankfully”. While San Francisco is a nice city and may have contributed to some of the attendance, for many, the trek to the West […]

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Questionable Meetings. Are you willing to ask uncomfortable questions?

David Gordon Posted On May 2, 2019

With the NAED meeting season coming to an end this weekend and distributors finally done with their planning sessions with manufacturers (more meetings), the issue of the quality of the meetings defined as “probing questions / value of the meeting […]