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Toyota Equipment · 2M ago

Our Blog Has Grown Up and Moved!

This is our last post using Blogger, our gratitude to Google for making it available all this time. Our blog has moved into our own domain, you can find it at www.ToyotaEquipment.com/blog We sincerely hope to see you there! Please "Like" us on Facebook, we don't Spam up your news stream!
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Toyota Equipment · 2M ago

Does What Others Say Really Matter?

As part of my work, I meet with every production side employee at least three times per year to discuss just about everything that is related to their department, their department’s activities and performance, as well as metrics they may be developing through their own efforts. These are opportunit
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Toyota Equipment · 2M ago

Our 2011 B2BTOTY Award

Earlier this month we were pleased to hear that Toyota-Lift of Minnesota’s Twitter account had been awarded the B2BTOTY (B2B Twitterer of the Year) award in the category "Natl/Intl B2B Manufacturer". A panel of judges that you can see listed here, and Twitter users voted us into the honor of top lis
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Well after all, we are a company comprised of people, and or course people will make mistakes. We were fortunate enough Friday that a customer of ours took the time to point out a mistake we were involved in. Our customer's email read: I am curious. We had one of your techs here today to service ou
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

It is More than Just Showing Up

Helping a forklift dealership and its employees go beyond being standard requires efforts that in themselves are certainly not standard. It involves actions that are more than simply equipping people with phones, vans, desks, lighting and tools, it means working with them to look even deeper into pr
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

Mom and Your Carbon Footprint

I think to a large degree most of us can agree on aspects of the “Green” revolution that make sense, maybe we can think of it terms of things our Moms told us. You remember, turn off the lights when you leave the room, in the winter keep the heat on as low and wear layers, in the summer open more wi
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

Industrial Strength YouTube

It isn't as slow perhaps as I might make it out to be, but slowly and surely industries that we participate in are embracing different aspects of social media. Recently Taylor-Dunn announced that they too have launched a YouTube channel. Since 1949, Taylor-Dunn has pursued a singular goal: to build
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

Wringing Simplicity Out of Complex

It’s about simplicity in connections and information. It is about being there for the customer in the manner that it is called upon. It is dynamic yet predictable; it is complex in its approach to being clear. It is our new website. Our first goal was to make it very easy for first time or repeat v
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

Can Curtains Sell the Part?

I’ll admit a certain longing for some of the old days. In my early career in the parts department, aside from your memory skills, your customer service abilities were augmented by the tools you kept around yourself. Our Rolodex, spiral notebooks and old paper part manuals were filled with notes, ref
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Toyota Equipment · 3M ago

Do It, Or Step Aside

Kaizen or constant improvement, it is something Toyota and likely a great many other manufacturers are keen on. No one can rest on their laurels too long, or they simply risk being surpassed by the advancements and accomplishments of others. Whether you’re talking about a corporation, a company or a
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