Organizational SkillsProductivity
One Horn Blog #51: Finally, a Way to Actually Create More Time
Learn how to multiply your time to become more efficient and productive so you can do more of what you really want to do in life.
ManagementProfitability
One Horn Blog #43: Build Freight Brokerage and Agency Value by Preplanning Your Exit Strategy
“Begin with an end in mind,” wrote Stephen Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This is the second habit, which means, “Begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen.” The same goes
Sales
One Horn Blog #39: 4 Tips for Building Shipper Relationships by Sharing of Yourself
We are always looking for ways to improve our relationships with our shippers in order to increase their comfort level for doing business with us and for giving us more business. In reading an article in the Harvard Business Review by Lisa Rosh and Lynn Offermann entitled “Be Yourself, but Carefully,” I found some of
ManagementPerformance
One Horn Blog # 37: 6 Reasons Why Freight Agent Is the Perfect Career for Work/Life Integration
Work/Life Balance, we have all heard of it, and when we think of it, we often think of constant struggle. We say, “How can I ever achieve Work/Life Balance?” But how about thinking of it as Work/Life Integration? Sounds much better, right? I thought so too when I was reading an interview with psychologist Ellen
Sales
One Horn Blog #32: Reach Your Ideal Shipper by Creating Your Shipper Avatar
Are you sure your prospecting efforts are reaching your ideal shipper? When I was doing sales for One Horn, I embarked on a networking frenzy which was fun. I met a lot of really great people, but I didn’t reach my ideal shipper. Now that I am targeting freight agents using avatars, I wanted to