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Things to consider when starting your own trucking company

Strategy Driven

Do you want to operate locally, regionally, or nationally? Operating regionally or nationally will require more capital and a larger staff. You will need to have enough capital to cover the cost of purchasing equipment, hiring staff, and other operational costs. Determine the scope.

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Best Practices for Sales Lead Management in a Data-Driven World

Strategy Driven

For example, a company specializing in SaaS products might use a CRM tool to manage its sales leads. Efficient data storage solutions enable enterprises to improve data management, monitor their websites , enhance data security, increase workflow efficiency, and save IT infrastructure and operations costs.

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

Terry Starbucker

Timely and accurate financial and/or operational reporting. 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.

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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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Our Listening Biases Restrict Success

Strategy Driven

I’m selling insurance. Here is another one: Halfway into a sales call, my client got hooked on his own agenda and didn’t hear reality: Prospect: Well, we don’t have a CRM system that operates as efficiently as we would like, but our tech guys are scheduled 3 years out and our outsourcing group’s not available for another year.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, they may involve taking inputs from emails or spreadsheets, processing the information by applying certain rules, and then entering the output into some other business systems, such as an ERP or a CRM. Take, for example, the car insurance industry. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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

Harvard Business Review

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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