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Carol Spieckerman: 3 Things Emerging Beverage Brands Need to Know

Erin P. Friar

Carol Spieckerman, President of NewMarketBuilders, spoke with us this week about three key trends that emerging beverage brands should keep an eye on in 2015. Check out what Spieckerman had to say about the changing beverage retail landscape and how new businesses should navigate it.

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3 Legal Tips for New Brands to Follow

Insights and Studies

3 Legal Tips for New Brands to Follow

Erin P. Friar

The product is perfected, the staff is hired, and the team is ready to launch a new brand. It’s an exciting time for an organization, but leaders should remember that before that product lands on..

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How Mobile CRM Helps Achieve More Client ‘Wins’

Technology

How Mobile CRM Helps Achieve More Client ‘Wins’

Erin P. Friar

Leaders of field teams looking to expand their businesses with more clients may consider looking into software solutions that are able to track individual client activity and easily tag a client as..

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The 10 Podcasts Field-Based Organizations Should be Following

Insights and Studies

The 10 Podcasts Field-Based Organizations Should be Following

Cam Garrant
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."--Ernest Hemingway

Podcasts have been around for quite some time now, and though many thought that..

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Team Building

Minda Zetlin on Managing the Mental Health of Field Reps

Erin P. Friar

This week we spoke with Minda Zetlin, Inc. Magazine columnist and former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, on the issue of health in the workplace. A growing number of..

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Choosing a Strategy for Building a Merchandising Team (Part 4 of 5)

Choosing a Strategy for Building a Merchandising Team (Part 4 of 5)

Matthew Brogie

Over the last few weeks we’ve explored approaches to outsourcing your merchandising team, highlighting the flexibility, coverage and leverage these options provide, particularly for surge and highly..

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10 YouTube Channels Your Organization Should Be Subscribed To

Insights and Studies

10 YouTube Channels Your Organization Should Be Subscribed To

Cam Garrant
“You can observe a lot by just watching”
--Yogi Berra

Last week, we talked about the 10 blogs that every field-based organization should be following. This week, we’ll be looking at an..

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Jonathan Webb: 3 Values Third Party Merchandising Clients Expect

Jonathan Webb: 3 Values Third Party Merchandising Clients Expect

Erin P. Friar

We spoke this week with Jonathan Webb, Head of Strategy Research at Procurement Leaders on the subject of outsourcing merchandising services. In a research piece done by Procurement Leaders, data..

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How Mobile CRM Helps Your Team Be Their Own 'Fire Fighters'

Accountability

How Mobile CRM Helps Your Team Be Their Own 'Fire Fighters'

Erin P. Friar

Too many business leaders consider themselves full-time firefighters and part-time managers. The old “putting out fires” expression is a way to describe managers who spend most of their time..

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Medical Packaging Industry Trends Helping End Users in 2015

Packaging

Medical Packaging Industry Trends Helping End Users in 2015

Erin P. Friar

Product manufacturers in the medical industry have a unique responsibility to their end users, whether they be medical professionals or consumers, to provide safe and simplistic packaging. Unlike..

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Anita Bruzzese: 3 Tips for Managing Field Teams

Team Building

Anita Bruzzese: 3 Tips for Managing Field Teams

Erin P. Friar

This week we spoke with Anita Bruzzese, author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy and contributor to The Fast Track and USA Today. From her experience speaking with managers, she offered..

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