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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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For those of you who tend to be concerned with fuel prices (in other words, all of us), I thought this was a good visual. Fuel prices have not peaked to the levels of mid 2008 which is a good thing. But diesel did rise 29% from 2010 to 2011. However, the Department of Energy [...]
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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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HAVING AN EQUALIZED “FREE FREIGHT” PROGRAM KILLS PROFITS, SO CHANGE IT
It’s common for shippers to have an equalized free freight program. What I mean by equalized freight program I am talking about offering “free freight” to customers who purchase a certain amount of volume of goods, regardless of their geographical location. The problem is transportation [...]
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