Inside Simple: Insights & Updates

Strategic insights, latest news, and success stories.

How a VMS Changes What’s Possible Inside a Logistics Workforce Program
How a VMS Changes What’s Possible Inside a Logistics Workforce Program
Logistics is one of the most contingent-labor-intensive industries in the economy. Distribution centers, fulfillment operations, 3PLs, and last-mile networks routinely run with contingent workforces that make up forty, fifty, sometimes…
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Why Staffing Agencies Win More Inside VMS-Run Logistics Programs
Why Staffing Agencies Win More Inside VMS-Run Logistics Programs
Most staffing agencies that work with logistics clients have a similar set of complaints about how programs operate. Communication is inconsistent. Feedback on submittals is slow. Performance evaluations feel arbitrary….
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The Summer Slowdown Is a Symptom, not a Season
The Summer Slowdown Is a Symptom, not a Season
Every staffing supplier knows the rhythm. By late May, requisitions start to thin out. Hiring managers go on vacation. Decisions that took two days in March now take two weeks….
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The RFP Game Staffing Suppliers Keep Losing, and What It Actually Takes to Win
The RFP Game Staffing Suppliers Keep Losing, and What It Actually Takes to Win
Every staffing supplier who has been in the contingent workforce space long enough has lived the same experience. An RFP arrives. A team rearranges its week to respond. Subject matter…
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Staffing Made Simple – Episode 17 with Mickey Pelletier
Staffing Made Simple – Episode 17 with Mickey Pelletier
AI That Delivers, Solving RFP Headaches, and What Buyers Really Want with Mickey Pelletier, CEO of CWM Strategies The contingent workforce space is full of AI talk, but buyers and…
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Why Most Staffing Agencies Sound the Same, and How to Actually Stand Out
Why Most Staffing Agencies Sound the Same, and How to Actually Stand Out
Ask ten staffing agency salespeople why a client should choose them, and you will hear some version of the same answer: quality candidates, great service, fast fills, strong relationships, competitive…
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Legal Compliance Is No Longer a Back-Office Function, It’s a Survival Strategy for Staffing Agencies
Legal Compliance Is No Longer a Back-Office Function, It’s a Survival Strategy for Staffing Agencies
The staffing industry has always operated at the intersection of complexity: multiple clients, multiple states, multiple layers of regulation. But something has shifted. Legal compliance, once the domain of general…
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The Staffing Sales Reps Who Get Ignored and the Ones Who Get Invited to the Table
The Staffing Sales Reps Who Get Ignored and the Ones Who Get Invited to the Table
There is a version of staffing sales that most people can recognize immediately: the rep who calls every week with nothing new to say, who follows up every few days…
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The Revenue Stream Most Staffing Agencies Are Leaving on the Table
The Revenue Stream Most Staffing Agencies Are Leaving on the Table
There is a conversation happening inside every growing staffing agency, usually in the context of a prospect meeting that does not go the way anyone hoped. The client is interested…
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