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Gaining a Competitive Advantage

It takes extensive research and strategic planning to gain a competitive advantage. Every advantage is significant and counts for establishing your business as the leader in your particular industry, especially…

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Calculate Your Direct Mail ROI

Direct marketing has been a staple of many companies marketing mix for decades and many successful companies have been built with direct marketing as the backbone of their marketing initiatives.…

Negotiating with Prospective Employees

Making an offer and negotiating pay with an ideal candidate can be a trying situation. On the one hand, you want to make the best offer possible. On the other…

6 Ways to Avoid Business Email Fraud

Companies of all sizes are being targeted by criminals through business email compromise scams. In these scams, cybercriminals gain access to an employee’s legitimate business email through social engineering or…

Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

How much is a customer worth to you? In order to really know that, its often important to look at the amount of business they’ll give you over the course…

Effective Employee Communications

Today, more so than any other time, businesses focus heavily on engaging customers, the media, investors, community members, and analysts — or some combination of them. But with so much…