October 23, 2016 / travelingsalesman /
Per a request submitted to the fine people of Emerald Expositions, there will be televisions playing the World Series games at the show’s Welcome Reception on Tuesday night, October 25.
Also worth noting, ...
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October 20, 2016 / travelingsalesman / 2 Comments
With the closing of the Bourbon Room, there has been widespread panic over where fastener people will go to drink after all the dinners and meetings are done. People wanted to know where they ...
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October 16, 2016 / travelingsalesman / 3 Comments
TS –
Congratulations again on your ten years in the fastener blogging business! Hard to believe, but I have another decade milestone to announce, and that’s the launch of the FCH Sourcing ...
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August 24, 2016 / travelingsalesman /
We have a dilemma fastener friends. I called and confirmed that the Bourbon Room is closing after September 11 and will not reopen until some time in December. So, our usual after hours meeting place will ...
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August 22, 2016 / travelingsalesman /
My favorite sales book is “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless – Customer Loyalty is Priceless” by Jeffrey Gitomer. The subtitle reads, “How to make customers love you, keep them coming back and tell ...
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August 17, 2016 / travelingsalesman /This article appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Sunday, August 14, 2016. Found it kind of shocking. We need Russian planes to move equipment because we do not planes (...)
via Russian Planes Move Our ...
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August 13, 2016 / travelingsalesman / 1 Comment
I saw where the Fastener Distributor Index FDI for July slipped dramatically, coming in at 45.9 versus 50.6 in June, seasonally adjusted. Over the last month I have had an opportunity to talk to ...
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July 7, 2016 / travelingsalesman /
There will be a shortage of skilled employees in the future, especially in manufacturing. This is fairly well predicted and documented. Programmers, machinists, etc. Many manufacturers in the fastener ...
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June 30, 2016 / travelingsalesman /
I’m currently not a member of the NFDA but I was invited to attend the Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky as guest of another company. For quite a while I have wanted to attend an NFDA event and Vickie ...
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