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Kevin welcomes the founder and CEO of Tai Software, Walter (Mitch) Mitchell on the show to discuss the role AI will play in freight sales. The key takeaway is that sales will remain the same, but AI will do what we are doing and using now even better, easier, and quicker. What does this mean? It will increase your sales velocity.
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Kevin welcomes the first person he worked for in logistics on this episode. It was 10 years ago and much has changed in the brokerage world. Over the past 10 years technology changed the game. What’s the big trend for the next 10 years? Kevin and Kyle discuss the buzzwords sweeping across the brokerage world. What’s the buzzword? Reshoring and nearshoring of course. Will cross-border Mexico freight be the next big trend? We both are thinking yes. Yes it will be.
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Kevin welcomes Brent Orsuga on the show to discuss some positive signs in the job market. We also cover how you should and shouldn't dress for interviews and sales meetings, and how you should live your life if you care more about your net worth than your Netflix account.
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Bill Hale, CEO and co-founder of FetchGoat joins Kevin to talk about moving from phone calls to dashboards. FetchGoat is on a mission to take the confusing communication networks of LTL networks and move this to a new streamlined dashboard system. We also talk about his career and lessons in freight sales. And yes the goat in FetchGoat stands for greatest of all time.
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Kevin welcomes former co-host Richie Daigle from Tive on the show to talk about the importance of the word “Why” and what is the difference between adversity and enemy and how this matters in sales.
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Kevin welcomes Ryan Schreiber, CGO, of Metaphora on the show to talk about the latest trends in freight sales.
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Kevin is joined by Ilya Preston, co-founder & CEO of Paxafe, on this episode to discuss big data. Whether it’s the internet of things or metadata, the industry is just now getting its arms wrapped around it. The big plus is taking granular data of isolated events and converting it into a predictable macro pattern that helps businesses manage future shipments.
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Kevin welcomes Rob Bussey from BWS Logistics onto the show to discuss the importance of being an extension of your customer’s brand. You become the transportation face without the overhead and payroll. If you can tell this narrative and nail down the execution then you have a long-term client on board.
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Kevin welcomes Josh Lyles, Founder of Salesdash on the show today to talk about notes and organization for freight sales. Josh started out as a freight broker, saw a problem with CRMs and decided to build one from the ground up for the freight industry.
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Kevin welcomes Ash McMillan, Director of Business Development, at Lake Shore Logistics on the show to discuss her LinkedIn short story newsletter series about horror stories in freight called Friday Night Confessionals. Marketing yourself is all about creativity.
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Kevin welcomes Jeff Booth from Opendock on the show to talk about the warehouse industry and scheduling trucks. From Kevin and Jeff’s experience it’s a task that shouldn’t be anywhere as complicated as it is today. Learn how many warehouses are out there and whether one day calling facilities to schedule appointments will feel like faxing around rate confirmations.
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Kevin welcomes Teclo Garcia the CEO of the Mission Economic Development Corporation to the show today. Reshoring and nearshoring are hot topics and we discuss what he’s seeing on the ground at the largest crossing points in South Texas.
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Kevin welcomes Dr. Mark Manera from Supply Chain Fitness to the show to talk about driver health issues. It’s important to understand the dangers of driving a truck day after day. In fact, the life span of drivers is 16 years shorter than the general population.
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Kevin drops by Pegasus Logistics in Texas to chat with their SVP of Sales, Hiram Hartnett. It's all about the hybrid world of sales these days. Part video meetings along with the face to face. One of the most important trends discussed is how to use video calls to qualify prospects. It's a much better process than flying around the country hoping your meetings go well.
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Kevin welcomes Matt Perkins, Co-Owner of Business to Business Logistics on the show again this week to talk about listening vs. talking when on a sales call. It’s part of the curse of knowledge and the fear of failure that causes us to vomit information all over the place during presentations, rather than sitting back and asking great questions.
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Kevin welcomes Nate Cross and Benjamin Kowalski from Freight 360 to the show to talk about the topic everyone likes to avoid, customer churn. There’s what you can control and there’s what you can’t control. Being proactive about what you can’t control though will help you out in the long run though.
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Kevin welcomes Senior Researcher here at FreightWaves, Joe Antoshak, to the show to discuss all your questions on the FreightTech 100 process. Plus, we discuss how startups use a placement on the list to drive sales.
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Kevin welcomes Jim Burke and Alan Levesque from IGL Logistics to discuss trends in nearshoring and reshoring. It’s a trend that all freight sales pros should have in their arsenal. Not only is it top of shippers' minds now, this trend will only accelerate as supply chains readjust to become more resilient to shocks to the system.
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Kevin welcomes Dyrc McLeod from HylanderTek to discuss how your biggest competitor isn’t another company, but the buyer’s aversion to taking any action at all. It’s all how to influence your prospects to take action. Any action at all, beats no action whatsoever.
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Kevin welcomes Brad Perling, the managing partner and co-founder of Bitfreighter on the show to discuss how you can use technology as selling point with shippers.
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