Monetizing Complexity: CBC Lighting’s Abraham Schnitzler on ‘Get a Grip on Lighting’ Podcast

EIN Get a Grip 400

Feb 20, 2020

CBC Lighting’s Abraham Schnitzler visited podcast hosts Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich in-studio to talk about good old fashioned lighting distribution. Colligan and Schnitzler get into the legacy marketplace, driver availability, California standards, trade wars, and municipal retrofits. Abraham, Greg, and Michael swap stories about condo applications, the detective work that goes into quoting, customer service, and the value of business associations and old friends.

The Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast is hosted by Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich, who have over 30 years of combined experience in the lighting industry. Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste. Greg Ehrich, LC is the former President of the National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and owner of a progressive lighting distributorship.

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