Listen!! All of us are working diligently on getting more young people involved in our business today. And of course, many of those people are going to be involved in sales. These young people are going to need the right training to make sure that they become good, effective, and of course successful, sales people. To help you with developing […]

Choosing the right PCB vendor is not as easy as you want to think it is. There are still many contract manufacturers out there who believe the myth that all PCB shops are the same and that in the end it’s only a matter of basing their decision on price and price alone. Oh, sure you’ll make yourselves feel better trying to […]

While listening to the radio as I drove to the airport last Sunday, an ad came on for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. I was only half listening and not really paying attention since it was not exactly a captivating subject. In fact, I was a little irritated because I always get irritated when I think about smoke alarms. I […]

Book Recommendation From: Dan Beaulieu 6/9/18 The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last By Tom Peters Copyright 2018 Vintage/ Trade Paperback Price $ 17.00 Pages: 460 Peters is back and he’s better than ever! If you, like me, wait for a Tom Peters book the way some people wait for a new […]

During a normal commercial flight, a pilot actually touches the controls of her plane for less than three minutes. The rest of the time, the computer called “autopilot” is actually flying that plane, yes, including landing the plane. Pilots have to undergo periodic training so that they will not forget how to fly. How many phone numbers, including your own, […]

In sales and in life for that matter you are only as good as the people you know, work with and are friends with. You are only as strong as your affiliations. You have to know and be willing to work with everyone if you are going to be successful life. So with that in mind embrace every bridge you […]

Many of my exceptional clients, and they are all exceptional of course, are getting negative feedback from their customers because they ask too many questions. Questions, mind you, that are focused on making a better product for those customers in the end. Questions, that are meant to clarify some of the questionable data that the PCB vendors need to clarify, […]

No, I’m not crazy or obsessive, this is really the time you should start preparing for next year. September is just around the corner and September is when you should start planning for the following year. It’s time for you to get your sales team aligned and working on their forecast for 2018 Look, I know many of you out […]

Walk with the customer. Care about him. Make sure that you know what she needs and give it to her. Make sure that he knows that you care about what will make his life easier and provide it. Look the hard sell is dead, if it ever was alive in the first place. Now we have to work to gain […]

To succeed in business today especially a custom business where you’re making products based on not your designs but the customers’ designs you have to be flexible. You have to listen to what your customers want today and what they are going to need tomorrow and customize your offerings to meet those needs. This concept is pretty straight forward you […]