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Monday, July 25, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig “Focus”

The famous Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli stated “The Secret Of Success is constancy of purpose.” By keeping our thoughts and actions focused on our goals we will achieve them.

Likewise, it could be said that dilution of focus is the greatest cause of failure. Trying to juggle too many balls, trying to be all things to all people, trying to do too many non-business activities during the work day all have the same result on our success…they kill it.

Water dropping on a granite slab will eventually cut a hole through it. That dripping water has one “constant purpose.” We can be like that dripping water by giving our presentation as often as we can each and every day with no distractions, no excuses and no mini 15 minute vacations every hour. We can maintain our “constancy of purpose” by giving our best presentation possible to as many prospects as we can each day.

Focus you mental and physical energy on being successful in your career with Superior Lamp. When you give 100%, you have constancy of purpose that will insure that you achieve the MAXIMUM SUCCESS possible for you. Your level of success will surprise you for it will exceed whatever you previously though possible.

Ken Hennig



President Superior Lamp

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig "Closing Results"


Many people think that success is a product of chance. If you're lucky, you do well, you win a lottery or inherit a lot of money. Most people tend to think of themselves as unlucky, so leaving things to chance is not a surefire formula for success. However, winners view success as something that can be controlled, something that they can influence...something that they can CAUSE. As a matter of fact, I believe that people, through their actions, are the primary cause of success.

It's really a simple process. Success is something you can decide to achieve. I've seen it over and over. they use a simple formula that I've obsessed and used myself.

SUCCESS STEP #1- FOCUS

Pick one thing you want to be successful in. Forget everything else. FIRST THINGS FIRST AND SECOND THINGS NOT AT ALL. This is extremely important. If you focus on tow things, your energy is cut by more than 50%. Actually, it's cut by more like 70%. FOCUS ALL of your energy and time on ONE THING. Think about this goal 24 hours per day, 7 days a week in order to magnify your power.

SUCCESS STEP #2- PREPARE

Develop a SIMPLE SUCCESS PLAN that you can commit to memory. YOU CANNOT IMPLEMENT THAT WHICH YOU CANNOT REMEMBER! So keep it simple. Also, study and practice to imprint your plan your subconscious. When you think you know it, go back and study it a dozen more times.

SUCCESS STEP #3- ACTION

Go to work. Work hard. Star early and work late. Never allow yourself excuses not to work. Enjoy your work. Be good at your work. do more than anyone else would in the same situation. Be a winner. Be the best you can be. Leave nothing on the table at the end of the day. Work so that at the end of the day, end of the week, end of the month... end of the year... YOU HAVE NO REGRETS!!

These three steps will CAUSE success. Success cannot elude these three steps. As a matter of fact, when you implement these to the very best of your ability, you will achieve success FAR BEYOND YOUR EXPECTATIONS. It's simple, powerful, and best of all... IT ALWAYS WORKS.

Ken Hennig
President of Superior Lamp

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig “Are You A Hard Worker?”

Is your income where you think it should be? If not, then why isn’t it? Are you lazy? But you work most of the time. You’re not sitting in front of the TV all day. You’re busy. So… why isn’t your income higher?

Maybe your income is not a reflection of your work ethic but instead a reflection of WHAT you work on? Maybe you just spend too much time on non-profit activities. Answer the following questions to find out:

1. I’m busy all day long? Yes or No

2. During work hours I frequently do non-profit activities? Yes or No

3. During work hours I frequently gravitate towards work “I like” most rather than work that will make me the most money? Yes or No

If you answered “Yes” to all three of these questions then laziness is not your problem. You’re busy. You work hard. Your problem is PRIORITIZATION. You’re using up your day (and your income) working on activities that have no profit potential. This can all be solved with one simple solution. Throughout the workday ASK YOURSELF: “Is what I’m doing now the most profitable thing I could be doing with my time?”

If your answer is “No” then change your activity immediately so you can get back to making money. Bill Gates is worth in excess of 50,000,000. It’s not because he works that much harder than everyone else. .. It’s because he works smarter. He, obviously did not spend time doing non- profitable activities. By focusing his energy in the most profitable areas he’s become the richest man in the world.

Can we join Bill Gates in the billionaire category? Probably not, but we can use this same technique to give our income a giant boost… without working any harder… just by changing what we work on.

Ken Hennig


President Superior Lamp

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig "Leadership and Sharing"


One of the really great aspects of the Superior Lamp Opportunity is that it grows for you when you share it. Every time we help someone else take advantage of this great opportunity it grows for us. Whether we're helping a new Rookie get started or and old Veteran friend, the net result is that both their opportunity and your opportunity grow.

I'm not exactly sure how it happens but it does. Over the years, I've heard countless personal testimonies on how being involved in Superior Lamp's leadership program helped their careers as much as they helped others. Maybe it's the fact that being involved in leadership forces us back to the basics. Maybe it's the fact that we're working and thinking about solutions, not problems, that forces us to have a more positive mental attitude. Maybe it's the synergy that comes from putting two like-minded, energetic people together with a common goal. Or maybe it's our earthly reward for helping out another human being.

Whatever it is, it works. And, for that very reason everyone should be involved in Superior Lamp's leadership program. The company needs your help to continue and expand our collective opportunity. All salespeople alike need to share in your experience and expertise. And, most5 of all, you need the personal satisfaction that comes from helping someone else become more successful.

Share your opportunity through Superior's leadership program and watch every one's opportunity grow as a result. The Superior Lamp Opportunity is one of those rare things that grows larger for you when you share it with others..so share it a lot!!

Ken Hennig
President of Superior Lamp

Monday, April 4, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig "The Power Of Focus"

Step outside on a sunny day and you can instantly feel the warmth of the sun on your face. Now take a 3 inch band of that sunlight and pass it through a magnifying glass that focuses3s it to a pin-point beam and all of a sudden that sunlight can start a fire!

Our sales energy is just like sunlight. Dilute it, spread it thin and it loses nearly all of its power. But... focus it and it becomes awesomely powerful!

Dilution of focus is probably the most common of sales maladies. The thinking goes like this:

" I'm good at selling lighting so I'd also be good at selling (NIC, fixtures, other products, etc.) Therefore, if I sell both I will double my income."

OR

"I'm good at selling small and medium size businesses at TOP OF THE LINE so I'd also be good at selling large businesses, large discounted orders."

It seems so simple. Add another product or add another area of the market and watch the cash roll in. But it doesn't. Actually, the reverse happens...income decreases. Why? DILUTION OF FOCUS!

When we broadend the spread, our sales energy dramatically decreases its power... quickly AND dramatically! Instead focus your sales energy like a laser beam. Focus your energy on selling our TOP OF THE LINE product at full price!

Over the years I've met top salespeople in many industries ranging from insurance to real estate to computers. All of them were narrowly focused on a niche in the field. They wee not only experts on their rather narrow product focus, but their sales tools were extraordinarily fined honed after hundreds of presentations in their narrow product area. They had gatherer ed all of their sales energy and, like a magnifying glass, focused it narrowly. As a result they became the best in their field! Meanwhile, their competitors tried to be all things to all people and ended up DILUTING THEIR FOCUS until they were merely lukewarm sales performers.

To achieve the success of a Top Producer year in and year out, you must pattern yourself after other top producers. And the pattern they offer is that of a tightly focused laser beam of Sales Energy. Here is the classic example of LESS IS MORE. Less dilution yields more income! Focus your sales energy and your increase in income will not be 10% or 20%. It will be 50%-100% Focus... it's simple, everyone can it, and it pays better than any alternative.

Ken Hennig
President Superior Lamp

Friday, March 25, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig "Recession= Opportunity"

Superior Lamp's biggest growth years have always coincided with "recessionary" economic times. So... while the evening news talks doom and gloom we have reason to be optimistic.
Regardless of economic conditions people still need to turn their lights on every morning. And, because MUST use their lighting, the only way they can cut costs is to go to more efficient, longer lasting lighting.
During recessions businesses trim back on labor leaving fewer people to change light bulbs. During recessions, paying the power bill becomes more difficult causing customers to be more interested in energy saving fluorescents and more. During recessions prospects are willing to take time to sit down and listen to ways to save money.
The only way we can experience a recession in the lighting business is to buy into it. For lighting salespeople recessions are optional activities, you only need to participate if you want to!
At Superior Lamp we have the perfect product line to cut customer's operating expenses, especially their labor demands. We can do all this AND provide them with more seeable light thus improving worker conditions. We truly are in a depression/ recession proof business. At Superior Lamp recessions result in increased opportunity for sales.
So.. ignore the news because it doesn't apply to us. We're too busy selling Heavy Duty lighting as a result.. and making more money!

Ken Hennig
President Superior Lamp

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Superior Lamp President Ken Hennig "Peddlers Vs. Salespeople"

How can you tell the difference between a light bulb peddler (ie. Competitor) and a professional Superior Lamp salesperson (Pro)?
- A Pro never installs product. It's an "expensive" time killer as it wasters "sales and service time"
- A Pro sells at the Top. He/she know who they are... and what they're worth... and the never compromise what they're worth!!
- A Pro sells ONLY THE BEST. He/she views their product quality as synonymous with their personal quality. They want only the best products to represent them.
- A Pro directs their sales energy towards selling their top product (Freshwite). Consequently they become extraordinarily good at selling this product...and make an extraordinary amount of money on this product!
- A Pro uses the rest of the product line get all of the customers additional business which prevents the customer from forming a relationship with a competitor.
- A Pro reluctantly sell NIC product (also known as special order items.) He/she explains that we can get these products as and accommodation but they won't ship immediately as WE DON"T STOCK COMPETITORS SHORT LIFE PRODUCTS. A Prod is careful so he/she is judged only on Superior Lamp quality products and services, not on an NIC.
- A Pro CREATES sales with salesmanship. A peddler searches for sales...begs, discounts, drops quality and installs to make a dollar.

These are the ways of Professional Lighting sales person. The ways of a peddler look easier and are sometimes tempting, but always lead to lower income. At Superior Lamp, all of our sales methods are designed to create highly paid PROFESSIONALS. And it's because Superior Lamp sales people are professionals that our people are the highest earners in the lighting industry.

Be proud of the fact that you're a Superior Lamp salesperson. Show it in the way you work, show it in the way you dress and it will show up in your bank account every Friday. Congratulations on being a Superior Lamp PRO!

Ken Hennig
President
Superior Lamp

Monday, September 20, 2010

Superior Lamp- WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

“I don’t even know what I will be doing next weekend, much less, for the rest of my life!” was my child’s answer to my question. Kids are so ‘to the point’. When you start to think about it, they have such an unencumbered outlook on daily situations and events that all of us adults bring to each encounter, more or less, as baggage. Our views are weighted by our own past experiences and memorable events in history, that we often pre-judge situations and make blanket decisions based on our life-tutored experiences.

There is a lot to say about learning from the past, but it should not be our only point of reference. If that were the case, then the woman who invented the wheel should have just kept pushing the big boulder through the hot sand and left well enough alone. “Wilbur, don’t go to the beach with that damned stupid winged contraption! I need you to stay here and fix these bicycles!” You go, Wilbur…you ‘da’ man.

The fresh ideas and enthusiasm that are often expressed by youth should not be discounted and likewise, when someone tells you, the salesman, “no,” if you give up convincing them that your idea is worthy, then you do not believe in what you are doing and you are destined for failure. The confidence and tenacity or enthusiasm you profess because you know that your products will best serve your accounts, is the reason why you will endure and become successful. The test that your account is giving you is to see if you really do believe in what you are offering.

The “No” or the “Stop” is something that every successful person has had thrown in their face. The “winners”, or the successful, have all had to overcome negative experiences and those experiences are what allow some to become leaders while others keep pushing the stone through the sand.

After having this same meaningful discussion with my son, I know that I succeeded because he told me he now knew what he was going to do this weekend; he was going to the beach. (Like all parents, I am unable to get my well thought out points across all the time.)

In closing, I would like to say that if you know what you are doing for the rest of your life and that it is sales, then be a winner and don’t take “no” for an answer when all your accounts really want is for you to be persistent and close with confidence and conviction .

Good Selling

Tom Mosher
Executive staff

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Superior Lamp Lighting Products Country of Origin

SUPERIOR LAMP PRODUCT TIP

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

In today’s multi-national economy, some of our customers have wondered which countries supply Superior Lamp's product. In selecting manufacturers for our Premium Quality products, Superior Lamp follows these purchasing criteria:

1. Quality: Regardless of where something comes from, it must meet or exceed our high quality standards. This gives our customers excellent service and value for their lighting dollar. Quality also protects your repeat business, keeping YOU #1.

2. We buy American whenever domestic products are available in our quality specifications. We support the USA and back up this support with our purchasing dollars. Keeping America’s economy healthy helps S.L. and helps you and your family.

3. If some products are sourced from non-domestic manufacturers, it means that either:

A. This product isn’t made domestically, making it likely that other lighting companies need to import it as well.

or

B. Domestically made products do not meet our quality standards. These may include specialty lamps such as Tubulars, Indicators, and selected Decorative lamps.


Regardless of the country of origin for Superior Lamp's products (which is America for the majority of the items), our customers can rest assured that Premium Quality is the #1 priority

Friday, May 21, 2010

Superior Lamp Product Tip

Energy-Saving HEAVY-DUTY™

Increasing nationwide electrical infrastructure costs. Increasing electrical demand. Carbon taxes on coal power. These are all topics that are or will be raising your customer’s energy costs. With the current focus on energy prices making national headlines, many people are thinking about items to cut back on energy usage. Most of Superior Lamp’s products can save electricity. This week we will focus on one of the lamps that S.L. has sold for many years…the HEAVY DUTY™ incandescent.

Some may ask “Why use HEAVY-DUTY™ instead of our energy-efficient Enviro-Twist™ spiral lamps?”…The answer: Because it’s fool-proof and it saves 12% in energy costs! It’s like getting a 12% drop in your electric rate for those sockets! And it carries a great 24 month warranty.

Unlike Enviro-Twist™ spirals, HEAVY-DUTY™ incandescent lamps can be used on dimmers, can be changed with pole-changers. They can also be used in extreme cold without any problems, they come on to full brightness instantly (no warm-up time), and are a rugged, rough service design. Yes, the Enviro-Twist™ saves the most energy, but they can’t be used in as many locations. The HEAVY-DUTY™ is fool-proof.

HEAVY-DUTY™ have been an anchor of the S.L. product line for over 20 years. Developed during the energy crisis of the 1970’s, the HEAVY-DUTY™ was designed as an energy-saving replacement of standard incandescents. It had another great feature; with its rough-service long-life design, it could carry a terrific warranty.

Re-lamping just 30 standard 100-watt lamps with
HEAVY-DUTY™ lamps could provide $315.30 annual savings! That means these lamps would pay for themselves in as quickly as 5 months! Plus, there would be additional savings from lowered air conditioning usage, and from the labor and lamp costs saved by lasting up to 24 times the life of a shortlife lamp.

Remember that your HEAVY-DUTY™ lamps are both great energy-saving lamps, and great extra-long life lamps.
Good Selling!

*Annual savings calculated using lamps operating 24Hr/day for 365 days/year at $.10 per Kwh.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Superior Lamp’s Environmentally Friendly Fluorescents

Superior Lamp’s Environmentally Friendly Fluorescents

Increased awareness of recycling and the hazards of mercury have made environmentally friendly lamps an important part of Superior Lamp’s product line. We are a leader in the lighting industry for environmentally friendly products. Superior Lamp’s lamps are built with cutting edge technologies that make them friendly to the environment due to low mercury content and long life design.

Our lamps contain the lowest average levels of mercury in the industry, mainly due to our mercury release capsule. The industry range of mercury content per tube is 15-48mg for a 4’ bi-pin fluorescent. S.L.’s 4’ TCLP-compliant lamps containing less than 4.4mg, and we are working to lower our mercury levels even more. Our lamps are TCLP-compliant, meaning they pass the federal government’s test for toxic chemical leaching in landfills. In some states, that means they aren’t required to be recycled (check your local regulations).

S.L.’s longer-life designs result in fewer lamps manufactured, fewer lamps thrown away, and fewer lamps recycled. Since manufacturing, disposal, and recycling all use energy and/or pollute the environment, Superior Lamp’s long life lamps by themselves are environmentally friendly. Our HEAVY DUTY™ line contains features that increase lamp life including:

● Triple Wound Double Tungsten Cathode – gives more surface area to the cathode which allows more emissive material, increasing the number of lamp starts possible, and thus bulb life.

● Cathode Guard – reduces tube end blackening, improving lumen maintenance and thus usable life.

● Silicone Coating - external lamp coating eases starting, especially in humid conditions. Easier starting results in longer lamp life.

● Color Stable Phosphors – precise mixes of Color Stable Phosphors resist breaking down over time, reducing color shift and maintaining brightness, which increases usable life.

● Precise Fill Gas – makes starting the lamp easier, thus increasing the life.

● Brass End Pins – better conductivity for easier starting, increases lamp life.

● Alumina Internal Coating – in conjunction with the mercury release capsule, this coating is used in our TCLP compliant low mercury lamps, makes the starting process gentler and blocks mercury absorption into the phosphors over time, increasing the life of the lamp. In addition to this benefit, the less mercury that is present in a lamp, the more environmentally friendly it is.

Superior Lamp leads the industry with environmentally friendly lamps.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Superior Lamp Celebrates Community Awareness

Superior Lamp Celebrates Community Awareness
MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY April 14, 2010 Environmental Services News Print this News Release RSS
(PRLEAP.COM) Within every individual, there is a need to commune with one another, to become a part of a community. We all want to feel like we’re part of something bigger and celebrate life with those around us. In each community there is also a need; a need to accomplish things for the betterment of that community. Superior Lamp believes that individuals and communities working together can accomplish great things. We should all be more in tune with our communities and all of the issues that affect the community in which we live.

Think about your own community…your neighborhood where you live, the business where you shop or work, the schools and churches, firehouses and police departments, etc. Each person within your community is affected by every other person within that community. So it is safe to say that if one person starts to get more involved in a particular project or event, then soon, others will join in. As a project or event becomes more important to the individual, so it becomes more important to the community. Superior Lamp has a special interest in going green and by providing high quality, environmentally friendly, energy-saving, heavy duty lighting products to all types of commercial, industrial, municipal and institutional businesses, they have affected countless communities across the United States.

Community events are a great way to get to know the people who are affecting your life on a daily basis (whether you realize that it is happening or not) and share with them some of the issues or interests that you have within your community. There are many types of community events that you can stage or become a part of, such as fundraisers, carnivals or fairs, concerts, craft shows, blood drives, outreach programs, job fairs, and many more. As a nation-wide company, Superior Lamp invites you to visit their blog at http://superiorlamp.blogspot.com and feel free to post any information about events in your own local community and help others become more involved along with you. Remember sharing in your local community will also affect our nation-wide community across our great nation and eventually the world!

For more information about Superior Lamp, please call 800-257-8353 or visit
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Who Is Superior Lamp?

Superior Lamp Inc. Who are we? Check out our new video shot from the home office !!! Superior Lamp has a reputation that is unparalleled in the heavy duty industrial lighting field. Our company Markets only the highest quality lighting products and has been the standard of our industry since 1977. We carry all types of replacement Bulbs (Fluorescent Tubes, all sizes, incandescent, all types, including Floods, Decorative, Metal Halides, Mercury Vapors, High Pressure Sodiums and 50 year Ballasts). All our products are Heavy Duty Industrial and are rated to last 18 times longer than the standard household bulb. Our product line even includes those hard to get bulbs. As a National Company we are dedicated to serving the customer with our guaranteed and Energy Saving products. Superior Lamp is the fastest growing company in the field of heavy-duty industrial, commercial and municipal lighting. Our products feature advanced design, energy efficiency and environmental benefits. We are currently the #1 supplier in the industry and are growing rapidly. We sell direct to the end user, any business out there that uses lights are potential customers. So everyone is a potential customer. Superiorlamp.com

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Superior Lamp Sales Motivation #2

Superior Lamp Sales Motivation #2

TAKING HOPE TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Hope is the seed that allows us to dream of better days ahead. First you have to create hope which is accomplished by opening your mind to new ideas. Remember, the world is flat. This was the truth or so many said, over and over until it became a fact to the masses and saying otherwise was tantamount to heresy. What if during this time period somebody proclaimed man will walk on the moon or Al Gore would create the internet? Just kidding. Just as these battles were being fought there were many disbelievers and people whom with their descent, forted efforts from moving forward. As with any idea man undertakes, there will always be detractors. This may be one of the hardest battles for you to overcome.

Taking hope and turning it into action is what will forge success. We all were born with abilities and talents that lay just under the surface and are ready to manifest themselves in many ways. The ability to lay brick is a learned craft. The ability to write music or pick up a guitar and play beautiful music is a learned discipline. People that focus on their hopes and discipline themselves to practice with the zeal to overcome more than just the material they have to master for their art will succeed. Also they must keep their detractors at arms length have the ability to take their hope and transform it into reality. Quality practice produces quality results.

We currently live in a world that has progressed to a point where focusing on your hopes and putting undivided attention to these efforts has become more and more of a challenge for all of us. What was once lauded as an ability, the art of multi–tasking has now become a hindrance. Watch a college student study for an exam. In addition to the material they are focusing on they are listening to music, “texting” and updating their FaceBook page. If Columbus or Mozart had these distractions we might still be going to beach in Europe and wandering or listening to Mozart rap music. If you are going to focus on your hopes and turn them into something of real value, find a place to study that is unencumbered with multitasking and hone your craft. It is going to take a strong commitment to create if you are going to succeed. While hope is the first step, focused action will make it come to be.

Tom Mosher
Superior Lamp Inc. Executive Staff
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

SUPERIOR LAMP ANNOUNCES “THE MASTERS CHALLENGE”

Mastering anything can be a challenge. Mastering the “Energy Crisis” is an enormous challenge and it will take a concentrated effort by the entire world population to overcome. The status quo is just not sustainable and we all need to work together to make a change. It will take a concerted effort by all to educate every world government and their populations to help them understand this.

Superior Lamp has created a Blog to engage not only those who are already interested in improving our planet, but the indifferent as well. It is Superior’s belief that unless we reach out to the whole population and do our best to explain all the benefits of moving forward, the effort will go unheeded.

Tom Mosher
Superior Lamp, Inc. Executive Staff

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Superior Lamp Inc. Sales Motivation #1

FAILURE IS A REQUIRMENT FOR SUCCESS

What do Albert Pujols, Mike Schmidt, Donald Trump and Warren Buffett all have in common? They all fail much more than they succeed. Albert and Mike fail two out of three times they have gone to the plate and one of them is already in the hall of fame as one of the greatest in his profession. The other one will be there. Mr. Trump and Mr. Buffett have made millions and maybe billions but have lost a whole lot of times. This group may be some of the biggest losers of all time.

Another thing that these “successful failures” have in common is the life learned ability to learn from their unsuccessful efforts and make adjustments so they don’t make the same mistake twice. I guarantee you that after an unsuccessful effort on their part they are better prepared next time to charge ahead with every intention of succeeding. They accomplish this with a plan that includes back to basics and preparing by studying the positive material that allowed them to succeed before.

These people will fail again and they are aware of that each and every day. But they also will succeed again because they know that failure is a big part of success. They all go to bat the next time up with the intention of getting on base and then scoring.

Do you fear failure? Or do you know it is required for success? When you don‘t succeed do you look inside and see what you could have done better? Do you go back to basics and adjust? Do you call your in–house manager, your coach to seek advice and direction? Failure is no more than a sign post telling you to adjust your direction and improve your course. Heed the sign, make the corrections and you will get right back in the game. Remember, if your last at bat or “door” was a “no”, go through the next door swinging, you are due for a “yes”.

Good Selling

Tom Mosher
Superior Lamp Inc. Executive Staff

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Monday, March 22, 2010

Superior Lamp Product Tips-Metal Halides

INITIAL COLOR OF METAL HALIDE LAMPS

Metal Halide lamps go through an initial color stabilization period—how long it takes after installing the lamp for the color to “settle in”. This is a property of all metal halide lamps, including Superior Lamps.

Metal Halide lamps are filled with different halide salts. These salts vaporize in the arc tube, and it is the final combination of the different salts that produces the characteristic white light.

When a new Superior Lamp metal halide is first operated, it can sometimes appear “off-color,” yellow or green. It can also sometimes appear to change color for a moment, and then change back. The reasons these events happen is because the different halide salts in the arc tube are not yet evenly distributed or fully vaporized, and are thus unable to create the bright white color that the metal halide is known for. Hence a “burn-in time” is necessary. Once a Superior Lamp metal halide has been operated for about one hundred hours, provided it is on a good ballast, it should stabilize and reach its desired color, the familiar brilliant white.
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Superior Lamp Product Tip: Beware Residential Or Shoplight Grade Ballasts

SUPERIOR LAMP INC. PRODUCT TIP
BEWARE RESIDENTIAL OR SHOPLIGHT GRADE BALLASTS

When you are selling your customer your Superor Lamp fluorescent tubes, keep in mind that there are different quality ballasts out there for operating fluorescents. Grades of ballasts range from: our HEAVY DUTY™ 50-year ballasts (BEST), to standard short-life industrial/commercial-grade ballasts (OK), and residential- and shoplight-grade (POOR).

Shoplight and residential ballasts are really only designed to be operated for short periods of time, and inherently have a short life. While our fluorescent tubes will probably light on the shoplight or residential ballasts, these ballasts are severely underpowered and will operate at higher temperatures to drive a full-wattage, commercial-grade tube (40W or 34W). Operating full-wattage lamps off these poor ballasts will also result in reduced light output when compared to the same lamps driven off of industrial-grade ballasts. These days you will see these poor quality fixtures equipped with “shop-grade” or “utility” 4’ T12 lamps, which actually only draw 25 watts on these ballasts.

When you equip these cheap fixtures with 34W or 40W tubes, the ballast has to overwork to drive the lamps, resulting in much higher ballast temperatures. These higher temperatures break down the ballast windings and cause voltage and current supply problems to the lamps. The build-up of heat is also potentially dangerous and could possibly start a fire. Continuous operation of these fixtures (like in an office setting where the fixtures are left on all day) will prematurely burn out full wattage lamps.

Good indicators of failing or poor quality ballasts are if commercial-grade lamps are spiraling, flickering, starting poorly, low light output, end-darkening on one end, or burning out prematurely. Other indicators are if the ballast/fixture is making an excessive hum or vibration, or if it is unbearably hot to the touch. In any of these cases, the ballast is suspect and should probably be replaced.

When you run into these situations, explain to your customer what is happening. Emphasize with them that this is why you only sell Superior Lamp Premium Products like our HEAVY DUTY™ fluorescents and HEAVY DUTY™ electronic ballasts!

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Superior Lamp Inc has Extended Guarantees from 60 to 84 Months on Freshwite Xtrabrite Fluorescents

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Over 30,000 companies use PR LEAP Learn More Superior Lamp Inc has Extended Guarantees from 60 to 84 Months on Freshwite Xtrabrite Fluorescents
MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY March 17, 2009 Business News Print this News Release RSS
(PRLEAP.COM) Superior Lamp Inc. has recently extended their product guarantee on their Freshwite Xtrabrite Fluorescents from sixty months to a generous 84 months. Superior Lamp stands by the performance of their environmentally friendly and efficient light bulbs so much that they are confident the extension will aid in building consumer confidence. Superior Lamp continues to offer products that are guaranteed to reduce energy costs for businesses.

The Freshwite Xtrabrite Fluorescents are heavy duty and designed and engineered to be used 12+ hours per day. All of Superior Lamp’s products are perfect for a wide variety of commercial and industrial uses. These bulbs can help a business save time, money, energy and peace of mind knowing they are doing something positive for the environment. Superior Lamp’s xtrabrite light bulbs maintain 95% of their brightness throughout the life span of the bulb where a standard bulb starts to lose its strength very quickly. A standard bulb produced about 40% of its initial power towards the end of its life cycle.

Superior Lamp is an industry leader in energy efficient heavy duty industrial lighting. They have been providing businesses lighting solutions since 1977 and offer a superior product that will help a business reduce energy costs almost immediately. Superior Lamp has spent over thirty years fine tuning their product line in order to offer a product that is untouchable in the industry. Energy efficient, "green" lighting is an area that more companies are starting to invest and focus on. Cutting costs is on the mind of many businesses even if that cost includes energy. If you are a business that owns a great deal of warehouse space that has the electric running for most of the day energy efficient lighting will help tremendously with cutting costs. Superior Lamps recent guarantee extension marks their belief in their product and shows that they stand by the performance of their energy efficient light bulbs. Over the many years Superior Lamp has been in business they have offered industry revolutionizing lighting products and will continue to do so for some time.

For more information regarding any of Superior Lamp’s energy efficient lighting products please call 800-257-8353 or visit the following places online:

Superiorlampinc.com


Tom Mosher
800-257-8353
personnel@superiorlamp.com