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The Rooftop Report: How a People-First Approach Can Lower the Risk of Falls
Dan Huntington still laughs as he remembers a lesson he learned in his college days. For years, his alma mater tried to keep students off the grass in a main area with signs and regulations. Finally, the administration realized it simply needed to work with the students’ established behaviors and pave the paths regularly…
How to Create a Referral Program that Fuels Sales Growth: Bricks and Clicks
What if you could build out a referral partner network that brought your PERFECT customer or client to you? No more wining and dining and woo’ing and pleading to get customers to pay for your services or items. No more efforting. Yes, I just made that word up. Today I’d like to talk about…
Roof Talks: A Pandemic Isn’t the Time to Rush a Roof-Replacement Decision
It’s old-time wisdom that can be easy to forget in the uncertainty of a pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak has changed how everyone does business, but it has also allowed many business owners to take some time to think about what they need to do once it’s safe to get back to work. Perhaps a…
Will Tulsa Woo Tesla? It’s Certainly Trying: Business Casual
The City of Tulsa is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to woo electric vehicle juggernaut Tesla. The city transformed its “Golden Driller” statue, a 75-foot behemoth, into Tesla founder Elon Musk, trying to convince the company to bring its next manufacturing plant to Oklahoma. The plant will produce Tesla Model Y…
Will Scanning for Elevated Temperatures Really Become a Prerequisite for Doing Business?: Business Casual
As a response to the spread of the novel coronavirus and the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic, many operations have turned to elevated temperature scanning solutions to provide a screening method for their physical gathering spaces. While the technology seems like a no-brainer on the surface, is it as beneficial as it sounds? In some cases,…
Roboticist Chronicles: A Beautiful Blend of Cutting and Motion Control Technologies
Dan Allford, President, Arc Specialties, and Brett Hubbard, OEM Sales Manager, Hypertherm joined the Roboticist chronicles to detail the long-standing partnership between Arc Specialties and Hypertherm. Hypertherm is an industry leader in utilizing plasma for cutting alloys. Arc Specialties uses Hypertherm’s power supply and technology to cut parts with Arc’s robots. “What we do…
Why Water Use Can Be As Important As Energy Consumption
When choosing a location, data centers often look for a location close to their end customers and one where there’s cheap electricity. Water was an afterthought, said Pedro Sancha, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nalco Water, but that’s beginning to change. With water needed to cool the data center, companies were bringing in…
Airforce Pilot’s Advice on Finding Your “Wingman” in Business: Straight Outta Crumpton
Straight Outta Crumpton focuses on the ways that building relationships is valuable both in business and in life. The guest on this episode is a perfect example of this. Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman, Air Force Academy graduate, combat decorated Air Force F-16 fighter pilot turned sales guru, performance consultant, executive coach and motivational keynote…
Developing a Successful Security Strategy
On this episode of the MarketScale ProAV podcast, host Tyler Kern was joined by Diversified Director of Electronic Security Solutions Bill Aheimer. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many things across the globe’s industries and organizations have been thrust into uncertainty. However, there’s one thing businesses can always control – security. There are…
Sales Disruptors: Solutions and Strategies for Successful Sales Performance
For Erik Charles, VP, Solutions Evangelist at Xactly, one could say performance management is part of his DNA. Charles has over two decades of experience working with companies to help shape and design their strategies for optimal business performance. He spoke with host Daniel Litwin on ways company’s sales teams can position themselves for…
Orange Intelligenz: How KUKA Robotics Works Together to Set Up Partners for Success
Robots always have seemed like something far off in the future, but advances in automation technology have put automation and robotics within reach of nearly any business. The pace at which that technology is changing has made automation at scale a much more affordable proposition and much for a user to get under their…
Upskilling Your Workforce, Part 3
On this episode of Manufacturing a Stronger Standard, a DeGeest Steel Works podcast, President Derek DeGeest joined host Tyler Kern for the third installment of the duo’s series on upskilling your workforce. Upskilling refers to giving employees additional tools and skills, elevating their knowledge and capabilities – and often your entire operation. Previous episodes have touched…
Getting Technetical: A Look at PTFE Product Solutions
Andrew Bastian, Director of Product Management and Strategy, Technetics stopped by Getting Technetical to talk about Technetics’ PTFE product assortment and their capabilities. While Technetics offers a wide range of stock shapes of PTFE sheets, rods and tubes, they also customize these products to exact forms and thicknesses to meet customer specifications. “In some…
Exploring the Spectrum of Wireless Connectivity
The world is on the precipice of a new wave of wireless connectivity, awaiting the oncoming faster generation of instant connection that will make self-driving cars, remote surgery and VR a mainstream reality. But this leap in speed won’t be widespread to start, and it won’t happen overnight. So what is the architecture of…
How to Build Mutually Beneficial Relationships Both Professionally and Personally: Straight Outta Crumpton
That’s the questions Greg Crumpton and Tyler Kern posed on this episode of Straight Outta Crumpton to Todd Boucher, founder of Leading Edge Design Group. Todd spoke on the podcast about the lessons that he has learned over the years from watching the way his father conducted his electrical contracting business. “He really believes…
Why Buying, Building and Bridging Will Rescue Retail: Spieckerman Speaks Retail
Retail’s future belongs to those who can skillfully juggle potent purchases, original invention, and outrageous alliances. Insularity and indecisiveness just won’t cut it. The good news is that a spirit of cooperation is flourishing in retail and creating opportunities for everyone. In this episode, Carol Spieckerman highlights retailers that are firing on all cylinders…
Industrial IoT: How IoT Has Evolved and Moved into the IoT 2.0 Era
Adam Livesay, Co-Founder of Elevat-IoT, remembers back a decade or more to hearing lots of people speculating about how the Internet of Things would change business and seeing competitors allocate resources to marketing rather than infrastructure or development. Now, in the midst of what he calls the era of IoT 2.0, the companies that…
Building a Drone Infrastructure Using UAS Traffic Management: Drones in America
Welcome to this week’s episode of “Drones in America,” a MarketScale podcast hosted by Grant Guillot. Guillot leads the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Practice Team for Adams and Reese, a law firm that practices across the Southern U.S. and in Washington, D.C. On “Drones in America,” Guillot and industry leaders, influencers and experts explore the rapidly growing commercial drone industry…
Living Live: Decentralized IP and SDI Routing
On this episode of Living Live with Ross Video, host Tyler Kern was joined by Ross Video Marketing Product Manager, Connectivity & Control Todd Riggs to discuss the ins and outs of decentralized IP and SDI routing. While these aren’t new topics, a focus on IP transport topologies and a move to UHD and 4K…
Orange Intelligenz: The Evolution and Adoption of Collaborative Robots
Collaborative robotics and the use cases for these kinds of robotic solutions have exploded over the past five years, with those at the cutting edge of the robotics industry innovating ways to leverage the technology in day-to-day operations across a variety of industries. To examine this industry trend, KUKA Robotics Director of Medical Robotics…
The Myth of Data Center Inefficiency
With their constantly whirring server fans and enormous cooling systems in cavernous buildings, data centers seem to be sucking up a lot of energy and contributing more than their fair share to climate change. But are they? Dr. Eric Masanet and several colleagues decided to put it to the test. What they found is that,…
The Iron Fox Podcast: COVID-19 and the Carwash Industry
As is the case across each and every one of the world’s industries, the COVID-19 pandemic and its ripple effects have impacted the way tunnel carwash operators do business. Though signs of a new normal might be beginning to peek over the horizon, there are still critical measures that need to be taken to…
Fiberside Chat: GIS Brings A Better View of Fiber Network Deployment
GIS technology’s application in the telecom industry over the past decade has been vast. Just ask Julia Teply, Product Solutions Specialist at 3-GIS. Teply’s experienced the changes and growth in GIS technology use and adoption firsthand, and she dropped by Fiberside Chat to share her thoughts on the exciting developments happening with GIS as…
Entering Excellence: Scalable Security: Wrong Decisions that Cost You Money
Security is never a one-size-fits-all solution, and that’s especially true for different types of building entrances, which have needs as unique as the companies themselves. On this episode of Entering Excellence, a Boon Edam podcast, host Shelby Skrhak sat down with Vice President of Sales JC Powell and Regional Sales Director Brian Marshall to discuss…
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