Convention Wraps Up In Marco
Today was a long day. Breakfast was at 7:00 a.m. It’s now 11:00 p.m., and I’ve been “on” all day. I will say, though, that I came out of the seminars and workshops with a boatload of interesting blog topics. Stay tuned here for the next few days so that I can catch up on most of them.
Right now, after a 16-hour day, I’m a little tired and not sure how much sense I’ll be making. So let me just retire tonight with a few quick bullet points before hitting a more in-depth topic tomorrow:
- Major props to Edward Fanning of Wells Fargo Financial, who plays a wicked harmonica.
- I was very impressed with the improv comedy performance of Laughing Stock at the closing party, who took the time to learn some material handling terminology (Maybe they used wikiMHEDA?) to pepper throughout their performance.
- Speaking of, the MHEDA Board “volunteers” were exceptional. Like they said, “They were making it up as they go along, like you all do every day.” Your improv skills were great.
- The Internet search tools shared by Sam Richter were awesome. I was scared to think about what might be out there on me in the “invisible Web.” Luckily, I didn’t have to find out in front of a crowd, like some Board members did.
- Interesting discussion from my fellow lunch table folk, about Internet security issues. Sam Richter definitely gave us all a lot to think about.
- Even though I’m not in sales, I found Tom Reilly’s general session and workshop extremely interesting. Value-added selling always seemed to be one of those nebulous concepts, like “better service,” but he and Cary Roulet provided real, practical examples.
- Finally, kudos once again to the MHEDA staff and board, who produced one of the best Conventions I’ve been a part of. It flew by, but I learned a lot. After 7 years of coming here, that’s notnecessarily easy to do.
- To all the new faces in the crowd, thanks for coming. New perspectives are one of the reasons that I was able to learn so much.
- Thanks to everyone who was willing to participate in the MHEDA Convention Connection, whether in videos, quotes or photos. We couldn’t produce what we do without you. Great job by everyone.
And with that, it’s off to bed. Stay classy, MHEDA.
Tags: convention, material handling
