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Intelligence
Apr 08, 2020
Key Takeaways from Paycheck Protection Program Webinar: Understanding PPP Loans
AMT recently hosted a webinar on the Paycheck Protection Act featuring experts from Cooley LLP and M&T Bank. Webinar participants learned who is eligible, how to apply, what information to send, how the loans are structured, and how to calculate the...
Intelligence
Mar 04, 2020
The strengths and challenges of a family business in manufacturing
There are approximately 140,208 firms in the manufacturing sector in the United States. According to 2016 U.S. Census Bureau data, the latest year for which the data is available, 97 percent are small businesses with fewer than 500 employees...
Intelligence
Mar 04, 2020
Small businesses: marketing on a shoestring budget
There are several relatively free and low-cost marketing tools and activities that a small business can use that will go a long way to promote the business and its products as well as build relationships with prospects...
Intelligence
Mar 04, 2020
USMTO - bigger and better than ever!
USMTO closed a historic year as we published December 2019 data reports. Topping the list was the complete redevelopment of USMTO operating software. From the user interface to the duplicate elimination and masking algorithms,...
International
Mar 04, 2020
Never too small to export: how to successfully penetrate foreign markets
We’ve stated it here before: The majority of the world’s machine tool market lies outside of the United States. Consumption statistics put that number in excess of 80 percent, leaving less than 20 percent here at home. If you are not exporting or...
Intelligence
Jan 13, 2020
You have the solutions
While working on a marketing email, I went to my usual spot for assistance, Thesaurus.com. A banner for the word of the year appeared. Immediately intrigued, I clicked. “Existential.” What does that mean? Turns out, it...
Intelligence
Jan 13, 2020
Speak your customers' language
Recently, I taught a sales fundamentals class to some young, malleable minds at BIG KAISER in Hoffman Estates, Ill. We were discussing the 6 Step Process and the next slide was a scene that we use from the movie “Tommy Boy"...
Intelligence
Jan 10, 2020
The value of establishing thought leadership in your market
Thought leadership is a type of marketing in which you promote your company executives as experts in your industry in one of various ways: as innovators in bringing new products or services to the market to meet industry needs;...
Intelligence
Dec 13, 2019
Where did 2019 go?
On Aug. 20, 2019, the Materials Processing Equipment Technical Advisory Committee (MPETAC) met to discuss the latest matters in export control. The purpose of this committee is to advise the Office ...
Intelligence
Dec 12, 2019
Expert insights into the future of the manufacturing technology market at MTForecast
In early October, nearly 250 leaders in the manufacturing technology industry came together in Cleveland to network and prepare their businesses to confront a shifting marketplace. AMT’s annual economic and market forecasting conference, MTForecast...
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