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Direct Marketing Basics

Direct marketing is still effective. The hype and effectiveness of online contact get the most buzz, but it simply can’t replace directly reaching out to customers and prospects with phone…

Working with Factors

Making sure you have enough working capital to handle payroll and stay current with your suppliers is a never-ending challenge for many types of businesses. Exploring alternative ways of financing,…

7 Tips for Safer Online Business Banking

The internet is not only an incredibly vast source of information and entertainment, it’s also a convenient, time-saving tool for important tasks like banking. With online banking on the rise…

Creating a Marketing Plan

A marketing plan is a roadmap to get your product into the hands of the customers who want or need it. It provides an analysis of your product, your customer,…

Financial Ratio Analysis

Financial ratios provide a means of measuring the overall health of a business. While numerous measures exist, the most popular measure the overall health of your business analyzing income, liquidity,…

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…

Business Inventory Requirements

Managing the inventory of a business is an important. Having insufficient inventory on hand can often result in lost sales and dissatisfied customers. But having too much inventory on hand…