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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

This includes software for trucking payroll as well as dispatch and scheduling programs, customer relation management (CRM) software, and GPS tracking systems. This will include information about your company’s mission statement, goals, strategies, target market, and financial projections.

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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. Chances are, the solution (and the problem) is literally right in front of you.

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Old way or new way? Only one way works. My way.

Strategy Driven

Don’t forget their managers who force them to use an uncomfortable ‘system,’ a non-sales helpful CRM, and hold their salespeople accountable for their actions and numbers. EXAMPLES: Retail sales, banking, trading stocks, buying cars, traveling, and, most important, the ability to research the opinions and outcomes of others.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

New technologies : The consistency and predictability of structured data is what gave rise to today’s centralized IT departments – running SQL/Relational Database Management Systems, and ERP and CRM software. Unstructured data is very different.

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For Sales Forces, Big Data May Be Overhyped

Harvard Business Review

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article (" Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing ") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. Doing it is not enough. You have to do it right. Here are three recommendations: 1.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business Review

banking and insurance businesses. In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers. Digital channels now allow companies to fine-tune marketing messages based on observed behavior. Just get started.

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Companies Are Reimagining Business Processes with Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. Sometimes, by the time changes were in place, the market had already moved. For example, nearly half of the companies are using machine reengineering for marketing products and services. times more likely to convert.