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Replace tech rider to engineer, FOH mixer to sales person, artist to customer service department, tour accountant to budget manager, local sound company to inventory manager and instead of saying “what the venue actually needed” to “what the customer actually needed”. Now isn’t that life imitating art, I don’t know what is.
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I wanted to give a word of advice to shippers out there they may be using a freight carrier who is on shaky financial ground. If you are shipping with a freight carrier (I don’t want to say any names) who happens to be having a fire sale of assets, is facing a dilution of [...]
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Kiss your supply chain. No, I am not telling you to kiss your supply chain that way you weirdo! I’m talking about the K.I.S.S. way. You know, the Keep It
Simple Silly way!
A very smart person told me one time that the best ideas don’t always get the best results. Sometimes it’s the simple idea that [...]
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Do you question the way your company does certain things and wonder if there might be a better way things could be done? Here’s a simple test to see if your company has any fangled processes in place that take much more time, man power and money than it should. Simply ask the people who [...]
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A great alternative to consider when trying to reduce overall transportation costs is rail. A rail provider can come to your facility and pick up your load just
like a truckload carrier. The difference is for the line haul portion of trip, your shipment is moving via rail road.
The down side of using rail is that [...]
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