Contents:
AUGUST 2013 | Volume 56 | Number 8
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departments
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6 Upfront
7 Anonymous Distributor
8 Industry News
29 Marketplace
31 Key Distributors
34 Advertisers' Index
products
15 Equipment Focus:
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Fuel Additives,
Oils & Lubricants
26
features
14 Ethanol Education:
What you need to know and
what you need to tell your customers
Kris Kiser, president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI),
provides you with a rundown of what you need to know and what you need to tell
your customers when it comes to ethanol and outdoor power equipment.
27 Product News
20 Equipment Trends 2013
In the first of a two-part series, Outdoor Power Equipment shares the
results of a survey recently conducted by sister publication Landscape and
Irrigation regarding the latest equipment trends in the Green Industry.
24 Content is King — period
In the last of a two-part series, Blane Vik, search engine marketing manager
at ARI, shares his insights on how you can make easy, yet effective, changes to
your website to achieve higher rankings on all of the major search engines.
26 The High-tech Tech
Randy Scully, national service manager for Stihl Inc., looks back at the evolution
of small-engine technology during his 40-plus years in the power equipment
business and provides a glimpse of where it is quickly heading.
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