Book Recommendation From: Dan Beaulieu 10/25/14 A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive By: Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt Copyright 2014Amacom Price $24.95 Pages: 238 with Notes and Index Its Official Social Media is here to Stay This is the best book I’ve read to date on the subject of social media. In fact reading this makes […]

Do you advertise? Do you spend a lot of your hard earned dollars on trying to get your name out there only to feel that you are just throwing your money down the proverbial rabbit hole? Are you constantly asking yourself, “What are my ads doing for me?” or saying, I cannot think of a single order I’ve got from […]

Here’s one I liked. You may too. A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results By Paul Gustavson and Stewart Liff Copyright 2014Amacom Price $26.95 Pages: 226 and Index Teams: the key to the future A lot of changes have occurred in the workplace in the past twenty fives year. There have been […]

I know sounds pretty brutal but hey I have to use any method I can to get your attention because the fact is if you don’t change your ways soon you will go out of business in the next twelve months. Don’t get me wrong there are opportunities out there, more of them than there has been in quite a […]

I want you to think about this long and hard. What are you making right now? Eighty grand? Ninety grand? One hundred and fifty grand? It’s a pretty good living. You go out and do battle in the sales wars every day, trying to make it all work so you can make a little more this year to stay ahead […]

The Inventor’s Dilemma: The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber By David Gerber Copyright 2015 Yale University Press Price $35.00 Pages: 400 and Index The story of the man who changed our industry All of us in the PCB industry should read this book. All of us who have heard about talked about and used “Gerbers” for our entire career […]

Five things you have to do to get the most form your PCB vendors Last week we talked about how most PCB users are missing the boat when it comes to getting the most from their PCB vendors. We discussed how the new age of buying boards with minimum communications and almost no face to face relationships between everyone from […]

Poor Judgment on your job seeking strategy? When a 20 something tried to connect with a more experienced person on Linkedin, here is the answer he/she sent him: We have never met. We have never worked together. You are quite young and apparently green on how business connections work with senior professionals. Apparently you have heard that I produce a […]

http://www.iconnect007.com/video/daveryder.htm I talk to Impedance Guru Mark Thompson about the importance of getting impedance right when it comes to PCBs

When you care enough to give the very best 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 […]