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Boost Your Traveling Sales Representatives’ Productivity

Chart Your Course

For workers in many industries, working remotely is a novel concept. In 2014, there were 1,800,900 wholesale and manufacturing representatives in the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. For their employers, the challenge of how best to manage remote sales personnel is presented.

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3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015

Strategy Driven

Communicating with colleagues, manipulating spreadsheets, entering customer information into a CRM… these are all examples of time-consuming manual processes that can be done better and faster by someone (or something) other than you. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In general, the human mechanical (i.e.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

According to a report by the Convention Industry Council , about 225 million people attend more than 1.8 GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

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It’s Your ‘Reputation’ Stupid: the Real ‘R’ in CRM

Strategy Driven

contact management software, the product credited as the catalyst for the Customer Relationship Management industry, I’m surprisingly not a champion of the concept of ‘managing relationships’ at all. CRM Isn’t the Answer. Manage Your Reputation Instead. In other words, managing your reputation!

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What VCs Can Teach Executives About What Drives Returns

Harvard Business Review

But the ways we do business have changed dramatically over the course of the last decade, and it’s become more necessary to reach outside of your expertise – or industry — to gain perspective on your business and leadership style. I’d love a CRM system that coordinates outreach among all my team members.