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Is Your Business Doing All It Can for Your Customers?

There comes a time as a business owner that you need to take a step back and assess your customer service operations. At the end of the day, are you doing everything possible to service your customers? In some cases, you may not be living up to your potential, thereby leading some of your customers to go elsewhere for their specific products and/or services. Given there is a chance that you think your business is as good as it can be, having those outside your business assess things is not a bad idea. This is why offering customers the opportunity…

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5 Must-Have Features Of Auto Dealer Chat

Live chat software has quickly become one of the most important tools car dealers have for generating leads and making better use of their websites, but with so many competing services, it can be hard to decide which one to pick or whether you need to change vendors for an upgrade. There are certain features that go well beyond simply answering questions through a window that can vastly improve your lead capture rate and turn your website into a valuable source of appointments. #1 Your Inventory The service you use should always be updated about your inventory and integrate pictures…

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Marc Leder on the Value of Persistence

Many would assume that Marc J Leder, co-founder of global equity firm Sun Capital Partners Inc. has it easy. After all, the guy makes massive profits every year and is also a co-owner of the professional basketball team Philadelphia 76ers. Additionally, he is also an avid arts collector and is the Director of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin. However, if one takes the time to talk face to face with Marc Leder, one would realize that he owes much of his success to persistence and perseverance. When interviewed at the Fostering a Legacy fund raising event, he said that he…

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Avoid a Money Shortfall with Your Business

Do you ever stay awake at night as a business owner and worry about your revenue stream? In the event you answered yes to that question, there’s a very good chance you are not alone. For countless business owners nationwide, the angst of wondering if there is enough money in the business bank account is likely an endless wonder. No matter how hard you try, it seems at times like you just can’t keep the financial needle in the black. Instead, you see it moving down in the red, leading you to potential panic. With that in mind, how can…

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Why Your Business Needs a Financial Advisor

As a small business owner, working out what to outsource and when can be a tricky business, on the one hand you want to alleviate a responsibility so that you can focus on something else, on the other hand, finances are key and you may not want to pay for something you don’t need. If you wish to succeed however, then your finances is somewhere that you should definitely be seeking to outsource or seek advice, consider this more as an investment in your future than a paid for service. There are certain things that you should look for in…

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How to attract and retain wealthy clients as a financial advisor

Want to send your financial advising firm’s revenues into the stratosphere? The best way to do this is to serve wealthy investors exclusively. Adam Rosenfeld Merrill Lynch has experienced great success representing high net-worth clients over the past few years, and you can join him in the winner’s circle by following the advice found in the paragraphs that follow below. 1) Get your pricing right The price of your services is one of the most important marketing signals that will get your financial advising business noticed by rich clients. As shallow as this may seem, they will pass judgment based…

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Core tenets of sustainable forestry management

When our ancestors first sighted the lands of the New World, they were aghast at the volume of untapped resources that lay before their eyes. Having come from a European continent that had already been largely depleted of its natural resources, they felt that this uncharted territory would give them enough fish, gold, and trees to last them and their descendants for countless generations. In the centuries that followed, the Industrial Revolution and the globalization of trade quickly changed this equation. This not only made these resources scarce once more, but we also began to face the notion that we…

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What you Should Know About Listing Your Home as a Vacation Rental

If you are like many property owners who travel a lot or have some extra space, you may be thinking about the possibility of listing your house or apartment on one of the many vacation rental websites that have popped up in the last few years. Without question, this is a great way to earn some extra income – many owners have found that this is so profitable that they have been able to purchase additional properties to add to their inventory. However, as industry experts like Brian Ferdinand will caution, it is important to understand the potential pitfalls so…

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Common Investing Mistakes to Avoid

Especially if you are relatively new to investing, it is easy to make mistakes – even the pros get it wrong sometimes. However, professionals like Chuck Whitman Infinitum there are some fundamental mistakes that new investors are especially prone to making which are less about occasionally choosing the wrong investment and more about strategic errors. Here are some importance pieces of advice to help you avoid these mistakes. Don’t forget why you are investing When you initially began to invest, you probably took the advice of business professionals or friends who told you that you need to make investment decisions…

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How to Choose the Right Tenants

If you are considering renting out your house or apartment, you probably already understand the importance of finding the right tenants.  Depending on where you live, the laws protecting tenants may make it very difficult to evict tenants even for non-payment of rent.  There are many other reasons that that you may regret renting to particular tenants – perhaps your neighbors have been complaining about them, or you begin to suspect that that they not may be who they say they are.  In these circumstances it is often virtually impossible to do anything but wait out the lease and hope…

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