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Business Services

How to Find Your Point of Difference and Promote It

To figure out your point of difference, you need to know how your product is unique in all sorts of ways, good and bad.

MBA Degree Created in Concrete Industry Management

The CIM Program created a unique Master of Business Administration degree in Concrete Industry Management to be offered through Middle Tennessee State University

EquipRent Raises $1 Million for Rental Quote Engine

EquipRent, a lead-generation company focused on the equipment rental market, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Phoenix-based venture firm Canal Partners and angel investor Howard Lindzon.

KHL: ARA Confirms Upbeat U.S. Rental Forecasts

The American Rental Association (ARA) is predicting a strong rebound in the US equipment rental industry up to 2015, forecasting a 7% increase in equipment rental revenues this year followed by higher growths of between 9% and 14% up to 2015.

Essex Rental Reports Increased Rates, Utilization

Equipment rental revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $8.1 million compared to equipment rental revenue of $6.4 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2009.

Personnel Management

How to Make Salespeople More Effective

The challenge for salespeople is to be ahead of the curve, not behind it.

Health of Housing Market Hinges on Access to Credit, Builders Tell Congress

NAHB: Congress, regulators and financial institutions must work to restore acquisition, development and construction (AD&C) lending.

Texada Software Launches SaaS Subscription Model for its Industry-Leading Systematic Rental Management System

Texada Software, division of Noble Iron

Texada Software Inc. announced today that it has launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription deployment option for its industry- leading Systematic Rental Management (SRM) system.

Coaching & Consulting

Cygnus Business Media's Building and Construction Group Names Steve Beyer as VP of Sales

Sales veteran is charged with developing and executing the sales strategy across the group's vertical markets.

Launch of EquipRent.com Provides Contractors with Free, Easy Online Access to Equipment Rental Quotes

EquipRent.com enables contractors to request and receive multiple rental quotes via one source, saving time and money.

World Bank Economist: US Should Invest in Infrastructure

McKinsey & Company

Authoritative voices form a chorus saying the drop in infrastructure investment as a percentage of GDP "has caused America to lose its innovation edge"

Federal Infrastructure Investment as a Percentage of GDP, 1950-2008. The graph falls from a maximum of about 1.25% in the early 1950s to about .2% in 2008.

Brisk Rental Show Sales Signal Industry Optimism

Brisk Rental Show Sales Signal Exhibitor, Attendee Optimism

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