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Today marks the beginning of QC Days, our month-long customer and distributor education event. We’ve got lots of exciting things planned between now and June 4th. What are we most excited about?

• We’ll be releasing our Conveyor Configurator, an intelligent conveyor sizing and quoting tool. You’ll be able to configure your own conveyor — along with its drive, sides, stands and accessories — and request a quote directly from your local distributor
• We know your time is valuable, so we’re launching a new series of short support videos called Quick Clips
• Our distributors will be calling on customers both old and new to show you all our latest innovations

Congratulations are once again in order for our Cleveland area distributor, Conveyer & Caster – Equipment for Industry. Jeff Stohr has written an article for the MHEDA Journal on embracing social media. Like us, they’ve been at the forefront of industrial marketers connecting with their customers through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. They mention that they haven’t seen any direct sales result from their social media efforts, but the connections they’ve forged through those efforts have been invaluable. Being seen as a “thought leader” in your industry is something that takes time to build, but can lead a huge payoff in the future. You can follow them at @ccefi on Twitter, or become a fan on their Facebook page.

Of course you can also find QC Industries on Twitter, Facebook or here on our Blog. If you come to visit, you can even check in here on Foursquare, Gowalla, or BrightKite.

Recently I’ve seen a number of articles about a new show coming to ABC in January called The Conveyor Belt of Love (only because I have a Google news alert set up for “conveyors”). As a conveyor guy, it immediately caught my eye. You can see the preview below. It looks like a terrible show, as it’s even more like a meat market than The Bachelor.

Here’s how the format works:

“If a woman is interested in someone, that man will step aside and wait as the rest of the men go by.  But if another man comes by on the belt that seems better than that woman’s first choice, she can swap out the man waiting off of the belt as many times as she wants until the last man has passed by. If two or more of the women are interested in the same man, the tables turn and the man on the conveyor belt gets to choose which one he would like to wait for. After all 30 men have made it through the ‘Conveyor Belt of Love,’ each woman is left with her final choice as they embark on a date in the hope of finding a true connection.”

While we’ve done conveyors for show-business before, this doesn’t look like any conveyor we’ve ever built (in the first shot you can see a clipper lace splice, which we almost never use). It did however remind me of our own Conveyor Belt of Love, so to speak. It’s a video we shot a few years ago to prove to a customer that their conveyor could easily move — and index — their required load of 1000 lbs.

Congratulations to our Cleveland distributor, Conveyer & Caster – Equipment for Industry. They were recently honored with a Weatherhead 100 Award which honors the fastest growing companies in Northeast Ohio. Last year they ranked 95th, but this year they’ve moved up to 63rd. Not bad for a firm that’s been around nearly 50 years.

It’s hard to believe how fast 2009 has gone by. It really doesn’t seem like it’s time for Thanksgiving and Christmas yet. We’re all looking forward to a few days to spend time with our families and rest and recuperate from this hectic year. As such, our offices will be closed this Thursday and Friday (November 26 & 27) for the Thanksgiving holidays and again from December 24 – January 3. We’ll reopen on January 4 as usual.

If you have a service emergency during those dates, please call our main number and leave a message. One of our on-call service technicians will return your call.

Here in Cincinnati, we kick off the holiday season each year with Balluminaria, a hot air balloon glow at Eden Park. I’d like to share this tradition with you to help get your holiday season off on the right foot.