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Depth Chart, Talent Scouting Report ... How It’s Worked for Us

By Mike Lessiter posted on January 8, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
We launched the “Lessiter Media Depth Chart” at a quarterly employee meeting last year. Put simply, it’s a place to seed the names of individuals who our employees see as sharing our core values and could one day be candidates for job openings. The intent is to identify and document potential talent — and assign someone to get to know them — BEFORE we have the need.
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Should Marketing Automation be Combined with CRM?

Both CRM and marketing automation systems handle leads, contacts and companies, but where does one start and the other stop? Behold this guide for the bewildered.
December 28, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
Source: CIO
Both CRM and marketing automation systems handle leads, contacts and companies, but where does one start and the other stop? Behold this guide for the bewildered.
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2006 Large Multi-Store Operation Dealership of the Year Titan Machinery, Fargo, N.D.

By Mike Lessiter posted on December 19, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Operations & Finance, Department Management
Today, Titan Machinery is North America’s largest farm equipment dealership group. In 2006, the group was selected as Farm Equipment’s Dealership of the Year. In total, the 2006 program attracted a total of 55 nominations — with nominations stemming from all corners of the farm equipment industry — manufacturers, dealers and dealer associations, and even farmers themselves.
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Titan CEO on the Public Advantage: ‘Permanent Capital to Survive the Generations’

Titan’s new management team provided Wall Street with an overview of the 95-store dealership group’s 10-year history as a publicly held company along with new initiatives under way to propel the firm in its next chapter.
By Mike Lessiter posted on December 15, 2017 | Posted in Department Management
During his opening remarks to analysts attending Titan Machinery Investor Day in New York’s NASDAQ building on December 12, 2017, David Meyer, Titan Machinery’s CEO, explains the advantages that publicly held companies enjoy in the fragmented dealer industry.
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Listen In: Titan Machinery's Investor Day at NASDAQ

December 15, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Department Management, Dealer News
To mark its 10-year anniversary as a public company, Titan Machinery rang the closing bell at NASDAQ in New York on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Earlier in the day, company managers hosted “Investor Day” at the stock exchange. The full recording of the presentations, including the Q&A session with analysts that followed can be listened to here.
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