


Digging Deeper Into NAED's Latest PAR Report
I like to describe NAED’s PAR Report® as your financial report card at the end of the year. It can help you dig deeper into the decisions that you made last year and how they affected your entire financial portfolio from expenses and sales to payroll and ...
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NAED Adventure Roundtable Series Kicks Off This Week
NAED is hosting a series of Adventure Roundtable discussions to help you dig into your use of data for your marketing strategies. The first event is July 22 at 1 pm Central time. The series of three events will kick off with Mark McGready, Director of ...
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Mark McGready To Split Work With NAED, SPARXiQ
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) is pleased to announce an agreement with SPARXiQ and Mark McGready that will allow the company and the association to split McGready’s time and work with both.
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A Fisherman's Story
Recently I did a podcast with Scott Costa of tED magazine. I compared customers to fish.
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Voices from the Future
Anyone who claims they can see the future needs to explain why they aren’t the richest person on the planet.
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The Reset Button: When Every Sale Matters, Let X-Check Help You Make the Most of It!
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more B2B sales are moving from the phone line to online. What started out as response to a crisis may become the new normal, and by eliminating the 9-5 barrier, customers can order around the clock. They are ...
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Data is the New Black
There’s nothing like being stuck at home all year to make you finally face up to the things you’ve been putting off. Everyone I’ve talked to has spent the summer doing home repairs or upgrades — that dining room you’ve just put up with for years, that ...
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Weatherproof Your Company Using EDI
Though distributors can’t change or control weather that wreaks havoc on the supply chain, such as hurricanes, floods, and lightning strikes, we can minimize the weather’s impact on our daily business processes by using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
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The Times, They Are a Changin’
Over the next decade, we’re going to see more disruptive change than we’ve seen over the last 30 years – since the fax machine was replaced by email and we all somehow thought it would make us more efficient and free up our time. That change will be a ...
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