Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
April 16, 2014
Our Steel 101 workshop on May 6-7, 2014 is sold out and we have a three person waiting list. We are working on two more workshops to be conducted over the balance of the year and we will advise the dates and locations once we have worked out all of the details. Our goal is to conduct one during the summer months (probably August) and another one in early October.
As mentioned in a prior publication we have settled on the dates for our new Managing Price Risk 2: Strategies & Execution workshop. The dates are June 24 & 25, 2014 and the workshop will be conducted at the CME building in downtown Chicago. We are working on some final details and hope to be able to open registration very soon.
My article on steel sales: How to go from being noticed to getting orders, has created a lot of emails and social media contacts. I appreciate the communication and stories of your own. Please feel free to provide your thoughts and suggestions from your career which might help mentor someone new to the industry. I intend to follow up the article with one or more articles centered on sales with the next one coming in Sunday evening’s Steel Market Update.
Premium members – we should have the survey results on the website by no later than mid-morning on Friday. I am also working on our next service center inventory excess or deficit forecast which I hope to share with you on Friday as well.
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John Packard, Publisher
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