What did we do without cell phones and the Internet? That thought crossed my mind New Year’s Eve night while out to dinner with family. I observed a gentleman to my left perpetually engrossed in his smartphone despite a female companion and another couple seated with him at the table.
I recently hosted a 45-minute webinar for kitchen and bath dealers/owners/managers on how to improve close ratios. Here are some key points from the well-received presentation.
With the traumatic impact of outsourcing jobs and production, especially by America’s manufacturing giants, it may come as a surprise to many that the United States is still the world’s No.1 generator of manufactured goods production at $1.8 trillion annually.
It’s no surprise online retail giant Amazon.com entered the industrial market in 2012 with the launch of Amazonsupply.com.
After all, the market for U.S. industrial supplies is more than $150 billion.
With the second Obama presidency secured for four more years, the construction industry, specifically the depressed housing sector, is taking a wait-and-watch attitude before projecting definitive commitments for 2013 growth potential.
It’s an old joke. I show you a beat-up old axe and tell you that this is American history. It’s the very axe George Washington used to chop down that cherry tree.
It has been an exciting and successful year to have served as ASA
president.
In my first letter at the beginning of 2012, I emphasized my 100% commitment to
continuing the fine traditions of ASA and also to enhancing the association’s
value to all our stakeholders.
Kohler Co. recently announced a game-changing policy pertaining to how its products are sold on the Internet. Perhaps you read my Supply House Times Web exclusive last month.
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