December 2021
2022 Dues Invoices Available
2022 dues invoices are now available on the AHTD website. Pay today to ensure uninterrupted access to all of your members-only benefits! You can log in and pay online, dash us a check, or call in with a credit card number. Only the primary account holder at your company will find the invoice displayed on their profile. Not sure who your team’s primary contact is or have other questions? Ask Leigha.

However you choose to renew, please know how much we appreciate your continued membership and dedication to #doinghightechbetter. Your membership matters!
UID 2022
UID 2022
Work toward your Professional Certificate in Innovative Distribution with the University of Innovative Distribution (UID). AHTD is proud to be affiliated with the University of Innovative Distribution (UID) and its concentrated educational program focused on the unique needs of the wholesale distribution industry. UID is sponsored by the Association Education Alliance (AEA), a consortium of 40+ distribution professional associations, in cooperation with the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University.

AHTD members will receive a reduced registration fee as a benefit of AHTD's founding member status of AEA. Read more.
Marketing Minute with AHTD's Mara Dickson
During the AHTD Marketing Minutes at our "Better Together" Fall Meeting in Colorado Springs, we talked about Branding. We discovered:

1.) Branding Done Right and Branding Gone Wrong;
2.) Steps to Consolidating Company Brand; and
3.) The Whys and Hows of Personal Branding

Click here to read this month's article, focusing on the information contained in the second talk: What Are the Steps to Consolidating Company Brand?

Don't forget to follow AHTD, link with Mara and Leigha, and follow our community hashtags as we are doing high tech better together.
AHTD Roundtable Winter Series Registration Open
AHTD Roundtables offer our members the opportunity to tap into their trusted network of colleagues from the industrial automation community while sharing ideas and discussing the challenges faced on a daily basis.

Coming up this January, February, and March, AHTD is offering the new Winter Series roundtables for company Executives, for your managers looking for Human Resources support, and for your Marketing professionals. 
 
Log into the AHTD website to learn more about these upcoming AHTD Roundtables.
 
#membershipmatters!
What's Up Members?
As a member of AHTD, you’re tapped into a dynamic community of automation professionals. Check out some of these insights from our membership base. 
What's Up Strategic Business Partners?
We're grateful for our Strategic Business Partners. These companies offer strategic products or services in the industrial automation distribution industry.
Actvantage for MDM: 4 Foundational Analytics to Become a Data-Driven Distributor

Data analytics is essential to profitable growth for distributors as the industry becomes more digitally focused. Yet, with so much data to work with, it’s difficult to know where your efforts with analytics will be most effective and impactful. Which should drive your growth strategy? Read More
7 Critical Success Factors to Build a Great Customer Experience Online

How can you stand out online in a world crowded by competition? Read KYKLO's latest whitepaper on the 7 Critical Success Factors to Build a Great Customer Experience Online. Developed in partnership with Distribution Strategy Group. Read More
National Survey Data
AHTD is enhancing membership benefits in 2022 by making two different national compensation surveys available to members at a rate discounted by 70%!

The National IT & Engineering Compensation Survey (published Nov. 2021) covers over 180 positions in Information Technology and Engineering. The National Sales Compensation Survey (published Sept. 2021) covers 15 different job descriptions in sales management and inside and outside sales positions. Click here to see an overview of the positions surveyed, a sample job description, and illustrations of base salary and variable pay presentations. Pay data is reported in various quartiles based on geographic region, size of organization, annual gross revenue, and/or industry. Click here to learn more.

Member pricing: $300/each
Nonmember pricing: $1,090/each
One Last Word: Post Pandemic Trends for AHTD
Frank Hurtte

AHTD Past President and Founding Partner of River Heights Consulting, Frank Hurtte, recently conducted a major research project on the new challenges that automation distributors face coming out of the pandemic.

"Aside from the issues tied to customer service and customer satisfaction, we see two major problems looming on the horizon..." Click here to find out about those problems in the full executive summary.