Propane heats up the competition as electric heat pumps gain ground

October 28, 2025 By Tom Jaenicke

Tom Jaenicke encourages readers not to let electricity undermine propane when it comes to home heating.

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Update your sales strategy to harness new growth opportunities

August 31, 2025 By Tom Jaenicke

Tom Jaenicke encourages marketers to keep their business plan updated as market conditions change.

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Generating electric power with propane

July 3, 2025 By Tom Jaenicke

Tom Jaenicke encourages propane marketers to “hook their hose” to generating electric power with propane.

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Your website should be your customer contact portal

April 30, 2025 By Tom Jaenicke

Tom Jaenicke encourages readers to drive customers and prospects to their website, not their office.

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Propane retailers advised not to ignore marketing trends

February 16, 2025 By Tom Jaenicke

Industry veteran Tom Jaenicke shares his analysis of each generation when it comes to marketing trends.

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Propane’s presence: Vacation uncovers many opportunities

December 26, 2024 By Tom Jaenicke

Versatility and portability take propane everywhere — including on Tom Jaenicke’s recent vacation.

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Propane fuels residential customers everywhere

October 31, 2024 By Tom Jaenicke

Propane can go everywhere, and we don’t need government or rate payer subsidies to do it.

This article is tagged with Marketing Mix, Michigan, residential market, tom jaenicke and posted in Blue Flame Blog, Current Issue, From the Magazine

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Education a must in rapidly evolving energy world

August 27, 2024 By Tom Jaenicke

Staying ahead of the evolving energy competition requires that you take a relentless approach to education and learning.

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Make propane a standard tool of the trade

June 27, 2024 By Tom Jaenicke

Builders and remodelers in your propane marketing area are ramping up new home starts and remodeling projects this time of the year.

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Respond to DOE rulemakings

April 25, 2024 By Tom Jaenicke

Don’t let actions and recent rulemaking activities by the Department of Energy (DOE) force your customers to drift.

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