If you're a supplier, how do you know if/when/and how many of your products are selling? How do you know whether retailer A is selling your product better than reseller B, so that you can even ask the right questions, and improve sales at reseller A?

I am officially back on the road working on the next venture.  Over the last three weeks, I have circled Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, hitting hotspots in New Jersey, Montreal, Bell-Vegas, Toronto, Grosse Point, Ann Arbor, Cleveland, and where the industrial revolution began, Bethlehem, PA.  I then took a very cheap Southwest flight down to Texas and then onto the Left Coast.  I am working on an industry consolidation venture that makes a lot of sense.  The timing is right and after meeting with over 15 companies in three weeks, I am confident that half of the group will agree to a consolidation.  It has all of the components of a successful merger.