“Social Media Explained”
"Social Media Explained" clarifies the use of 7 of the most popular social media channels each in 4 words or less. The next time you need to shout out something this chart will let know the most...
View ArticleFour takeaways you can’t beat.
Industrious Bastard offers knowledge and know-how for leaders of small industrial, second- and third-tier suppliers of products and services. The blog offers insight to helps companies to navigate a...
View ArticleStickiness trumps persistence
Niche industrial suppliers deal with many forces that tug on their organization like a constant pull off test. It’s easy to come unglued. In the age of engagement measures of how we’re made are as...
View Article21 News bites offer insight and direction
What’s important enough and motivating enough to influence our thoughts and future actions? You can’t make sense of someone, or some thing, without effort and some engagement. You have to take action....
View Article3 Trends support funding email marketing
The supply chain is short on some resources by design. But never forget the strategic advantages for email for increasing awareness and feeding the sales funnel. Lead generation is the number one goal....
View ArticleFrom compliance to machinist mantras, four takeaways
Want to feel industrious? Here’s fresh insight for your business from the Industrious Bastard. Summaries of our last four posts optimized for faster reading. HIT Solutions believes the more your...
View ArticleTrending: Supply chains shift from efficiency to responsiveness
Supply chain responsiveness is trending. It’s a signal to lean from being simply efficient, to becoming wholly responsive to customers. Committing to this trend however, means embracing the information...
View Article25 Industrious news bits challenge YOU to connect the dots
25 news bits. Consider the 189 percent gain in manufacturing output per hour in the last 30 years attributed to investments in laborsaving machinery. It’s not so much in the collecting of the dots as...
View ArticleFrom data to wisdom: charting your shop’s new path
Before metalworking coolants are drawn, lubricants changed, adhesives applied or before any conversion coating solution is even dreamt about, data are being collected and managed somewhere along the...
View Article3 New industry agenda items for progressive metalworkers
Here’s the on-ramp for 2015. There are 3 lanes, choose yours carefully. The HIT boys voted to bring back six of the Bastard’s more critical stories of the few past months. I’ve organized them into the...
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