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    Remembering 2024

    Dec. 12, 2024
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    EVs Hit a Rough Patch

    Jan. 29, 2024

    Highlights

    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 Lucy2015 1025

    A Season of Discontent

    Jan. 9, 2023
    Forecasting can be a frustrating business because of stale data and fast-changing economic conditions.
    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.

    Coin of the Realm

    June 1, 2018
    Some of the nation’s largest construction projects are generating some serious cash for Top 200 electrical distributors.