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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

Secure financing. Once you have determined the type of specific trucking business and the scope of your actual services, the next step is to secure financing. To operate legally, you will need to get the proper insurance and licensing. Finally, you’ll need to find financing for your business.

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The Key Software Tools Modern Business Owners Should Embrace In 2021

Strategy Driven

Customer relationship management tools, usually known as CRM solutions, are a handy way for businesses to keep all of their customer communications and orders in one place. Many of these tools can also help you to manage tax and national insurance payments, saving your business even more time and hard work. Accounting Managers.

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

Harvard Business Review

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. Also selectively acquire companies and unify their disparate cultures and systems.

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5 Essential Principles for Understanding Analytics

Harvard Business Review

And while there are lots of executive programs in “Accounting and Finance for Nonfinancial Managers,” there aren’t any that I know of on “Analytics for Non-Quantitative Managers.” It’s most likely to come from your organization’s transaction systems such as financial systems, CRM, or order management.