Superior Lamp Inc. Product Tip- What Is Your Electric Rate?

Superior Lamp PRODUCT TIP

WHAT IS YOUR ELECTRIC RATE?

Your customers’ electric rates may not be what they think. The electric rate published on the bill is seldom the rate your customer is actually paying. There are many fees and taxes that can be added in, which increase your customers’ electric rate.

Some of the items that will change your electric rate are:

- Demand Rate
- Power Factor Correction
- Line Changes
- Service Fees

Electric rates are expressed as dollars or cents per kilowatt-hour, it is usually expressed as $.__/kwh. This is the rate most customers think about when you ask them how much they pay for electricity.

To determine your customers’ true electric rate, you calculate it by taking the Total Amount to be Paid and divide it by the Total Kilowatt-hours Used:

Total Amount to be Paid = True Electric Rate
Total Kilowatts Used

For example, if the Total bill is $100 and they used 1000kwh, the customer’s rate is $.10/kwh, but if the Total bill is $150 and they used 1000kwh, their rate is then $.15/kwh. So, chances are, their “published” electric rate is much less than their True Electric Rate.

So, if a customer tells you that energy savings isn’t important since their rate is only five or six cents, you may want to have them show you their bill and do the above calculation. They will often be very surprised at what they are actually paying!

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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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