Spiders, Extractors, and Crawlers are all software tools that go out and search metadata to retrieve results that can be helpful to your business. They are often used to search for emails. One popular tool, once endorsed by Mike Lipsey, president of The Lipsey Company, is the eGrabber, a lead generation software. I’ve used it for many years but customers have become so overwhelmed that I question the effectiveness of HTML mail any longer. So far, the tool I use that tracks emails comes standard in Salesforce and counts the number of times your email has been opened. This provides metrics that can refine your marketing program.
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“Some e-commerce players use their warehouses much like they use computer servers,” Klein said. “They figure out what the best space is, what the most valuable space is, and they time it so it is more seasonal. And that’s the revolution that is coming. You can monetize your warehouses and get more rents by sharing it with different tenants than you can just by getting one tenant.”

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and attached The Rise Of Urban Last-Mile Logistics Brings Warehouse Renovations And Higher Rents – Industrial

The industrial real estate business keeps changing. I pay close attention to trends because they lead to deals. These are a few observations for end of 2017.
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Space Sharing is a new version of a very old concept. An owner or occupant can put excess space up for rent and let tenants make flexible space commitments. Technology eases the sharing process with on-demand electronic exchanges and connected tools for measurement, accounting and security. Other variations of the same concept are Co-Working and Space as a Service (SaaS). All share the same goal of dividing space and time into smaller increments that can be charged out at flexible and generally, higher rates. It’s as simple as posting the Sharing Space and finding tenants to fill it.
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