Certainly, getting in front of customers is never easy. The past two pandemic years have made that even more difficult as salespeople have not been able to use their usual methods to sell. Instead, they have had to resort to email, and social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and even Twitter to get their sales message in front of the right customers. But there is one thing that has not changed, the use of which has become more prevalent in the past few years—the mail. Not just the U.S. mail but FedEx and UPS as well. It turns out, the way we send things has not changed, or not changed much anyway.
The summer is heating up, and our news this week is on fire, literally. Eltek has resumed making deliveries after a fire at their facility in Petach-Tikva, Israel. There’s never a dull moment in this industry. And we have some good news: EIPC’s conferences are now live events again, and Editor Pete Starkey is back in the saddle, bringing us a review of the two-day conference. I know Pete was getting tired of sitting around his house and watching these events on video.
I do not pretend to know more about millennials than you do. In fact, I am not a fan of those self-nominated “millennial whisperers.” You know the ones who like to show you how hip and young-thinking they are because they...
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