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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

That’s because the trucking industry is incredibly competitive and demanding, and you need to ensure that your business is well-prepared for success. Logistics companies provide support services such as transportation planning, inventory management, and order fulfillment. Get the right tools for the business to flourish.

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The 200 mph Tune Up: 4 Critical Decision Filters For The Startup Leader

Terry Starbucker

These are four elements that represent the moving car – and thus, they are a mechanism to insure that the startup’s limited time and resources will be devoted to the right things, and at the right time. Revamp of the customer management (CRM) system. Employee retention. New advertising campaign.

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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. Relate Articles: StrategyDriven Human Performance Management Forum.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business Review

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. banking and insurance businesses. A similar story can be told in retail banking, insurance, credit cards, retail, and other industries.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. Take, for example, the car insurance industry. We are at an interesting tipping point regarding how and where work gets done.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Sales force complacency and high new salesperson turnover : At an insurance company, tenured salespeople had amassed large territories and now "owned" so many high-potential accounts that they didn't have enough time to provide adequate service and coverage to all of them. As sales took off, management continued to "share the wealth."

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