July Newsletter
Here’s what you’ll learn about in this month’s newsletter:
- Register Now for eBiz 2025: Early Bird Registration Deadline Quickly Approaching
- Meet IDEA Board Member Danna Stone
- Join Us for a Live Webinar: Turning Analytics Into Actionable Sales Intelligence
- Listen to Patrick Knight, IDEA President & CEO on EW Executive Insights Podcast
- What’s New in the IDEA Connector?
- Follow us on LinkedIn and Subscribe on YouTube
Early Bird Pricing for eBiz Ends Soon – 7/31!
Time is running out! You have just one week remaining to take advantage of our early bird pricing for eBiz 2025.
Register by July 31st and save $125 on your conference registration. This is your last chance to secure this significant discount before rates increase to regular pricing.
eBiz is the electrical industry’s leading digital transformation summit and you won’t want to miss:
- Inspiring keynote from Zack Kass
- Exclusive eBiz Night Out at Luke Combs’ Category 10
- Engaging roundtable discussions and hands-on breakout sessions
- Ready-to-use solutions and proven strategies for immediate impact
eBiz 2025 promises to deliver:
- Cutting-edge e-commerce strategies
- Game-changing digital transformation insights
- High-value networking with industry leaders
- Implementable solutions you can use right away
Act now – early bird pricing ends in just a few days, and spots are filling up fast.
Meet Danna Stone, IDEA Board Member
Graybar’s Danna Stone is shaping the future on the IDEA Board. Since joining the IDEA Board in 2024, Danna Stone of Graybar has been championing development of new tools for faster knowledge transfer.
Live Webinar: Turning Analytics Into Actionable Sales Intelligence
Join IDEA’s Patrick Knight and Mark McGready for an engaging webinar devoted to exploring how to boost productivity, accelerate sales skills, and drive measurable growth by making data speak your language.
Traditional analytics can overwhelm sales and management teams with charts and dashboards, when what they really need is clarity. Enter IDEA Data Whispers – a revolutionary tool that translates complex customer data into clear, prioritized talking points.
This session will reveal how Data Whispers can:
- Turn Complex Analytics into Clear Action
- Accelerate Sales Performance with Targeted Insights
- Drive Measurable Business Impact
Eager to Learn More about Data Whispers?
Read this recent article by Mark McGready: Analytics Your Team Will Actually Use
Listen Now: IDEA’s Bold New Vision for E-Business
We’re excited to share that the Electrical Wholesaling Executive Insights podcast featuring Patrick Knight, President & CEO, is now available! Tune in to hear IDEA’s bold new vision for e-business in today’s electrical market and learn about how IDEA’s portfolio of tools and services can help level up your business.
What’s New in the IDEA Connector?
Manufacturers and Distributors – Secure File Transfer Protocol – SFTP is now available! Update your IDEA FTP connection with an SFTP connection. IDEA’s secure SFTP provides security, authentication, data integrity, compliance, integration, platform support & provides peace of mind when manufacturers are transmitting product & pricing data to IDEA Connector and when distributors are processing extraction files from IDEA Connector. Login to the IDEA Learning Portal and download the instructions for FileZilla, File Explorer, & other data transfer methods used to send and receive data files securely.
Have questions or need help updating your IDEA FTP Connection? Our Customer Success team is here for you!