News and updates and from SEMA's councils and committees.

SEMA eNews highlights the websites of SEMA-member companies through the Hot Links to Cool Sites section each week. SEMA members: To be included in Hot Links to Cool Sites, e-mail your company name and website to enews@sema.org. Note: Make sure to include “Hot Links” in the subject line of the e-mail...

Following are dates and locations for several upcoming SEMA-sponsored shows, webinars and activities.

A company might produce the best product the world has ever seen, but it may as well not exist if people don’t know about it. That’s why retail advertising to end-users is crucial to bringing business into a store or to a sales website. And for manufacturers, advertising to both retail and wholesale...

While Google+ boasts 40 million members, it’s still relatively small for a social network. Nonetheless, many businesses have wasted no time scrambling to set up their own pages there. Search-engine optimization (SEO) experts say that the land grab is a smart move, since businesses with a presence on...

In January 1963, Tom McMullen posed in his flamed Deuce highboy for Hot Rod magazine’s Eric Rickman in front of Beckman Instruments, where McMullen worked as an electronics technician.

NEWS NUGGETS 2012 NHRA FULL THROTTLE SEASON BEGINS WITH O’REILLY AUTO PARTS NHRA WINTERNATIONALS: Three months after the final pass of the 2011 season at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series returns to the historic facility for its 2012 debut this weekend with the O...

The companies below (K–W) were exhibitors at the 2012 MPMC Media Trade Conference in January, an annual event that brings motorsports parts producers together with members of the working press for private, face-to-face meetings to discuss new products, story ideas, company news and more. The...

Luanne Brown and Kellie Colf of eTool Developers will host this year's Business Technology Committee (BTC) session during HRIA Education & Training Day at the Hotrod & Restoration Show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, March 22, from 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.