Here is the second installment of Marissa’s Short Stories from the Road. As I said in the Introductory post: With so many years in the business, and with countless hours on the road and in sales meetings, Marissa has been in a wide variety of situations, and has plenty of stories. Many are humorous and almost all of them have a lesson within. Marissa has decided to share these short stories in audio format for people to listen to and learn from. We hope to host …
Last week I had the valuable opportunity to speak at the PCB Atlanta show put on by UP Media in Alpharetta, GA. The show is designed to serve professionals within the PCB industry by offering technical seminars for further education and by allowing pertinent companies to exhibit in a table-top format. The show went very well, and I will be writing more about my experience there in the coming few days.
Below is the media portion of my presentation. It gives a very general outline of the topics I covered and …
by Liam Morris
I have been blessed with the opportunity to speak during the afternoon sessions at PCB Atlanta on October 22. UP Media has always been very kind to us and have now provided me with this opportunity.
The seminar I will be teaching will be on the topic of marketing yourself using the social media and online tools that are currently available online. Below is the abstract I submitted when I approached them with the idea.
Are you trying to find a way to stand out among the crowd? The field …
I first met Marissa Oskarsen at the PCB East show in early spring 2009 outside of Boston. Just as I am unique within the industry due to my age, so too is she unique considering how few women work within the field of printed circuit board sales. We have kept in touch since, and she was one of the first people to whom I pitched the idea of an industry blog. We have talked a few times about ways that she can contribute to this project, and we have finally …
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the final Wind River – Aerospace and Defense Seminar Series lecture event of the year. It was an extremely informative day of seminars and networking with various vendors within the field of Embedded Systems. Attendees/Exhibitors included GE Fanuc, IBM Rational Software, Freescale Semiconductors, Curtiss Wright Controls, McObject, Aonix, and others. Two of the seminars I attended were particularly informative and intriguing.
The first was the Industry Keynote speaker, Ken Krieg, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. He spoke …
