WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their electric trash truck at its headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., I was just so there. The very phrase sounded magical. Electric Trash Truck could be the name of my ’60s art-rock band. They also offered to let me use the side-loader’s grabber arm to fling bins into the air. It’s harder than it looks. With no engine rumble or barking brakes, Mack’s LR Electric rolls like a mute-button version of its diesel equivalent.

WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their electric trash truck at its headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., I was just so there. The very phrase sounded magical. Electric Trash Truck could be the name of my ’60s art-rock band. They also offered to let me use the side-loader’s grabber arm to fling bins into the air. It’s harder than it looks. With no engine rumble or barking brakes, Mack’s LR Electric rolls like a mute-button version of its diesel equivalent.

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For decades, Jon Whipple and Darrel Weaver spent their professional lives climbing the corporate ladder into executive roles, where their work settings ranged from big offices to bigger conference rooms.

These days, however, if you’re looking for Whipple and Weaver, you won’t find them in any office — at home or otherwise — or wearing any business attire.

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Well-managed companies who are growing and reaching for that next level often find themselves stretched thin financially as they wait for customers to pay them, and they turn to their banker for a line of credit.

When a line of credit is used correctly, it provides short-term financing to companies that have a long operating cycle — the cycle between the time that the company begins paying the costs involved with a job and the time that the customer pays.

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Digital marketing has come to the forefront as one of the chief disciplines in communications practice.

That makes sense when we consider that digital citizenship is up. A whopping 96 percent of American adults now claim to carry a mobile device, and the lines between “digital” and “in-person” life are blurred to the point of being nearly indistinguishable.

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I’ve become a true Zoombie! How about you? Over the last few months, I’ve attended, hosted and managed more Zoom meetings and events than I can count. Who would have imagined such a scene?
Our new virtual reality begs us to step up our game online. How are you showing up?

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To celebrate this year’s Nevada Day, the state’s “Made in Nevada” program launched a new ecommerce site for Nevada businesses to sell their products directly to consumers.

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As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology. Instead, we think of technology as being used to express media, rather than media itself.

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In the spring of 2014, Mark Tsigounis was in the middle of taking his hiking hobby to great lengths — literally. Tsigounis, like thousands of hikers every year, was in the midst of traversing the forests, wild lands and mountains of the Appalachian Trail, a 2,190-footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine.

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This week, I’ll share two ways to create successful “hybrid” meetings where some people attend in person while others attend online. The technology you’ll need for these hybrid meetings can range from simple to quite complex, depending on how much simultaneous interaction you want among your attendees.

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In the early 2000s, a few years after springing out of Silicon Valley, tech startup Google wrote a “10 things we know to be true” manifesto. One of the company’s core principles argued, “You can be serious without a suit.”
That statement may never ring truer.

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At the beginning of the pandemic, work from home was almost fun. You no longer had to deal with the commute, dress up each day, and put up with gossip at work. You simply want to do your job and call it a day, working from the couch in your Lululemon yoga pants. When the pandemic hit, staying at home appeared desirable at first. You thought of all the projects you can do in your free time. You can work on that puzzle, clean the garage, paint the house, read more books, cook more, and exercise during the day.

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It’s a Friday morning in mid-September, and Steve Ernst has already been in offices in Vancouver, Atlanta, New York, London and Denmark. He’s met with people, popped into meetings, roamed offices. And he did it all from his house in the Carson Valley.

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We’ve all experienced “buyer’s remorse” – that sense of regret after making a wrong purchase. Unfortunately, “hiring remorse” is even more common – the recognition you’ve brought on board someone who can’t do the job.

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As 2020 comes to a close, many organizations may have outstanding questions regarding how to approach 2021 budgeting. It’s important to have a plan in place, especially for construction and manufacturing organizations, to outline expectations for what you want to achieve in a particular period.

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Whether focused on B2B, B2C, inbound, outbound, small-to-medium business (SMB) or enterprise, the company needs a dependable source of income to survive.

A sales strategy plan is a company’s roadmap for securing dependable, long-term revenue by growing new business and retaining existing accounts.

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NCET created it’s membership program in October of 2010, and we’re proud to announce our first 10-year member, the longest-tenured member in NCET’s history!
Matthew H Booher, President of Sparks-based WIS:DOM Information Systems, recently earned the distinction

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