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Editorial Commentary

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

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Staying Relevant All Day Long

Sept. 13, 2024

CBM's Power the Network podcasts

Aug. 15, 2024

EVs Hit a Rough Patch

Jan. 29, 2024

A New Chapter for Electrical Wholesaling

Dec. 11, 2023

Checking In on 2023

July 31, 2023

Green Shoots Despite a Potential Drought

June 2, 2023

Highlights

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.

The Devil in the Details

Feb. 9, 2023

Less is seldom really more in this age of bite-sized chunks of news and information.

A Season of Discontent

Jan. 9, 2023

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

2023’s Potholes & Pots of Gold

Nov. 21, 2022

These trends could have the most impact on the electrical economy in 2023.

A Change in the Weather

July 29, 2022

There’s something funky going on in the U.S. economy right now, but it’s tough to know what to call it, or to figure out how long it’s going to last.

Times & Trends: A Flock of Black Swans

June 2, 2022

Times & Trends: A New Era of Innovation

July 30, 2021

Why the Rep’s Local Touch Still Matters

Feb. 18, 2021

Thoughts on the New Industrial America

March 3, 2020

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.

Stop the PR Madness

April 3, 2018

A beleaguered editor calls out for help from beneath a stack of press releases loaded with puffery and impossible-to-prove performance claims about lighting products.

Jim Lucy Chief Editor Electrical Wholesaling

Times & Trends: The Power of Us

Dec. 15, 2017

“Multi-party collaborative integration” may sound just like a bunch of MBA buzzwords, but when it happens on construction sites, it’s good news for manufacturers, reps and distributors...