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Author Archives: Mike Puckett

Mike represents Cartus in the Southeast as director, business development. He is a 16-year veteran of the relocation industry, having held leadership positions in Operations, Client Services, Inventory Management, and Quality Improvement.

Not Just Plain Vanilla: Considering the Value Proposition When Building a Relocation Program

Gone are the days when you can walk into a fast food restaurant and quickly choose between a hamburger and a cheeseburger and two sizes of fries; it can take 10 minutes just to run your eyes from one end of the overhead menu to the other. Likewise, if ever there was a time when companies shopped for “plain vanilla” relocation services, those times have surely changed as well.

This is certainly true for companies with large and complex relocation needs, but it is no less true for those clients and relocation managers who move only a few employees each year, [...] Read More

What Does the Term “Emerging Markets” Mean, Anyway?

The term Emerging Markets is used frequently in today’s business vernacular, across industries, and in the relocation industry as well.

So what does the term “emerging markets” mean? Let’s examine some common usages:

• Markets in which commerce is emerging or is now significant enough to warrant the opening of an operation or a facility or a sales initiative. The map above shows geographies in blue that are commonly considered emerging markets. It is interesting that China is still often described as an emerging market, although, as discussed in a recent Cartus eLearning, the Chinese economy now ranks as the second largest [...] Read More

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