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Mid-April COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Report

David Gordon Posted On April 20, 2020

COVID 19 Electrical Market Sentiment Survey

COVID-19 continues to run rampant throughout the country. When we conducted our first Electrical Market Sentiment Report we went from zero to twenty-seven states under “shelter-in-place”. Our recently released second report, Mid-April COVID-19 Electrical Market Sentiment Report, which shares input […]

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COVID Content, Concepts & Comments

David Gordon Posted On April 17, 2020

COVID Content Concepts Comments for Electrical Industry

Have you felt “overwhelmed” with the amount of COVID-19 information that has been arriving in your mailbox the past couple of weeks? Rather than post this information regularly, hopefully curating it to identify some key content and sharing some concepts […]

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Industry Leaders Join ETIM North America

David Gordon Posted On April 16, 2020

Companies large and small talk about eCommerce. Progressive firms are talking the concept of eCommerce and broadening it to digitalization and then considering “digital transformation”. Essentially “digital transformation” encompasses identifying the multitude of opportunities within an organization to automate processes […]

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Accelerating Decline & Electrical Market Sentiment Survey #2

David Gordon Posted On April 12, 2020

What a difference a week makes! You may recall that late last month, based upon economic data through March 20th, DISC forecasted that the electrical industry would be down over 12% at the end of the year due to COVID-19. […]

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Increasing Sales Effectiveness, a COVID Opportunity?

David Gordon Posted On April 8, 2020

A potential outcome of COVID-19 is a rethinking of sales organizations. You’ve now had an opportunity to consider their effectiveness in a different sales environment and hopefully are starting to think about your sales organization “post COVID”. Consider … prior […]

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2020 Q1 Pulse of Lighting Results & Acuity Performance

David Gordon Posted On April 7, 2020

Q1 is done and while data from what is known as BC (before COVID-19) seems like from the dark ages, it can be informative if considered in a trending environment. While last week DISC shared a preliminary, probably optimistic, end […]

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Coronavirus Sales BC vs PC

David Gordon Posted On April 1, 2020

We’re in an environment that could be called BC vs PC – Before Coronavirus and Post Coronavirus. The challenge is that PC, which could be defined as Q3 and Q4 don’t look pretty. Everyone, at least manufacturers, are asking “what […]

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Electrical Industry COVID-19 Market Sentiment

David Gordon Posted On March 31, 2020

Understanding the financial impact of COVID-19 on the electrical channel is a real challenge. That’s why we launched, and can now report from, our Electrical Industry COVID-19 Market Sentiment Report. (available for $50 with 50% of proceeds to the Gary […]

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Electrical Industry Reacts to COVID-19 – Ideas to Share

David Gordon Posted On March 26, 2020

Electrical Distribution Industry COVID-19 Reaction & Ideas

COVID-19 has directly been impacting the electrical distribution industry for about two weeks and we’ve been aware of it, due to supply concerns coming from China for about six weeks. We’ve learned much such as the affect on the lighting […]

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COVID-19 Electrical Distribution Market Sentiment Survey

David Gordon Posted On March 22, 2020

Last week was a “helluva” week for many with hourly reminders of a changing world due to an invisible enemy that is justifiably panicking all. It was a week we’ve all become too well acquainted with the words “coronavirus” and […]