Congratulations to Scott Teerlinck on becoming the president and CEO of Crescent Electric. According to Crescent’s press release in TED: Crescent Electric Supply Company today announced that Scott Teerlinck will be joining the organization as its new President and CEO. He […]
Distributor counter areas have been spotlighted in the first month of the COVID-19 era. Counters represent between 5-30% of a distributor’s business with the importance of counter sales being directly tied to target audience, locale and business focus. What is […]
Chicken Little arrived in the US in mid-March and declared “the world is falling”, and it started to … and has. Humpty Dumpty fell and he then said, since his horsemen were missing (probably unemployed), “Carmen Sandiego will help in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
David Gordon
Channel Marketing Group
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