What's up, y'all?

I'm Alan Hayne, the lawn care nut.

Thanks for coming back for yet.

Another lawns across America podcast.

This one is Post-Equip Expo. Now, it's funny when I was at the E-QIP this week, I was talking to George from Princess Cut. And where he was making jokes, he goes, listen, nobody watches content from E-QIP. It doesn't get views. It's true. Equip Expo is fun for a few of us, but it doesn't get like massive views unless you really know what you're doing.

Like Stan the Dirt Monkey, he finds like these way back in the back guys doing really cool demos of really different kind of niche products. And he films them in a certain way. What he does is he lets the people do their pitch. and the pitch is like so good because they're so,

they're so good at doing it because they've done it so many thousands of times

that it comes off really good and smooth and quick and it flows well on

Instagram and it's just very watchable content stand the dirt monkey is the best at getting views

from expos but either way I'm going to talk about the equip expo today because I have a topic that

I have wanted to flesh out on here

for the last many years. Ever since I went for the first time, I've wanted to talk about this,

but I've never actually sat down and put my thoughts on paper. And it's about tools and outdoor

power equipment and how it gets to the shelves, essentially, and some things I've noticed and then reach out to you all in

the audience to get some feedback from you on my thoughts, because there are people in this

audience that are outdoor power equipment importer experts. There are people that listen to this

that work for these tool companies, and I'm hoping maybe one of you will come out of the woodwork

and come on the podcast and teach me more about it

because I'm just endlessly fascinated with different verticals, different businesses and how they work and how they operate and how the players within the vertical work together and create co-opitation.

I see it over and over and over again.

And that's one of the other reasons I do like

going to GI, not GIE, the EQIP. This year I actually limited myself to one day, got in on Tuesday

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