Editorial Commentary

Insights, observations and opinions on life in the electrical industry.

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Remembering 2024

Dec. 12, 2024
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EVs Hit a Rough Patch

Jan. 29, 2024

Highlights

A New Chapter for Electrical Wholesaling

Dec. 11, 2023
With a move to an all-digital format come some exciting opportunities to serve readers and advertisers with more robust editorial content.
Jim Lucy2015 1025

Checking In on 2023

July 31, 2023
The health of the overall U.S. economy this year has surprised even the most optimistic forecasters.
Jim Lucy2015 1025

Green Shoots Despite a Potential Drought

June 2, 2023
Top 150 distributors continue to invest in their businesses despite an uncertain economy.
Jim Lucy2015 1025

ChatGPT: Ready for its Electrical Market Debut?

March 31, 2023
You can now ask ChatGPT and other chatbots hundreds of questions about your business, but don’t trust their answers implicitly — yet.
Jim Lucy2012 770 2

The Devil in the Details

Feb. 9, 2023
Less is seldom really more in this age of bite-sized chunks of news and information.
Jim Lucy2012 770 2

Times & Trends: A New Era of Innovation

July 30, 2021
Technological advances are quietly creating some out-of-this-world sales opportunities.
Jim Lucy2012 770 2

Why the Rep’s Local Touch Still Matters

Feb. 18, 2021
How the rep world has changed — and how in some ways it has stayed very much the same.
Jim Lucy2012 770

Thoughts on the New Industrial America

March 3, 2020
Despite the influx of new technologies into the industrial market, the best sales strategies to sell industrial products haven’t changed much.

Market Data’s Power

July 30, 2018
You can analyze your investment in local markets doing some rather simple calculations with the data Electrical Marketing publishes.