Plumbing manufacturers gathered in balmy St. Pete Beach, Florida, to discuss and learn about issues on multigenerational leadership, workforce development, sustainability, accessibility design, industry economic trends, trade and tariffs, consumer data protection and more during Plumbing Manufacturers International’s 2019 conference.
Amazon is teaching everyone to want an increasingly better e-buying journey. Because Amazon is corralling next-generation B2B buyers’ searches, manufacturers are scrambling to create omnichannel solutions for B2B e-buyers.
In November I had the opportunity for the second time in 2019 to hear author, columnist and small business owner Gene Marks do his thing at the ASA Central annual meeting (the former MwDA group) in Oak Brook Terrace, Illinois.
Our relevancy is not guaranteed. When you think of what happened to powerhouse businesses such as Kodak, Blockbuster, Sears, Toys R Us, BlackBerry, RadioShack, Nokia and others … it is a cold sense of reality that our business model of the past is no guarantee of relevance and profitability tomorrow.
ASA held its annual conference, NETWORK on Sept. 25-27, 2019 in Washington, D.C. NETWORK continues to be a very important opportunity for the industry to connect and conduct business as year-end nears and firms are closing in on their annual financial targets.
For more than a decade, ASA has steadily expanded the value of the national association through creating a vision of success and allocating resources to move ASA and its members forward toward an envisioned future.