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Ron Slee brings our skills for retention back to the forefront in “The Key Tool for Business Retention: Essential Tools for Business Retention.” Building and maintaining strong customer loyalty is essential for your company’s sustainable growth. Success depends on keeping your customers engaged with your products and services rather than losing them to competitors. It […]

Today our Founder and Managing Member Ron Slee writes about adapting to our current realities in “Another Business Transition. This is the critical one…and we are missing it.” I have had an interesting and extremely rewarding career in the equipment world. I never dreamt about working in this industry. It just happened.  I was 22 […]

Our new guest writers, Jordan Arsenault and Nick Mavrick bring big data to their first blog post for Learning Without Scars, “How Construction Equipment Dealers Can Succeed (Or Fail) Faster.” Don’t dig for data. Let data dig for you. Big trouble: that’s how we are ending 2024, most economists agree. Inflation, investment bubbles, over-the-top government […]

Guest writer Dan Shipley gets down to the nuts and bolts of the conversation around safe operations with “The Dangers of Flatbed Trucking and How Safety Can Be Improved.” Flatbed trucking might not always get the spotlight, but it’s one of the backbones of our freight industry. It’s the reliable workhorse responsible for moving heavy […]

AI, Unknown and Optimism Guest writer John Dowling addresses one of the current topics that is at the forefront of the international conversation, “AI, Unknown and Optimism.” Amidst the hype and excitement about Artificial Intelligence, it’s important to remember its potential to revolutionize the heavy equipment industry. Whether you view it as a significant technological […]

Why India is Poised to Become a Global Manufacturing Hub Our new guest writer Sanjay Pendharkar is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in sales and business development across India and South East Asia. His expertise spans market research, channel partner management, and strategic business growth. After 32 years with JCB, Sanjay […]