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    1. Customer Retention Optimization Strategies to Keep Customers Long-Term
      Your customers are your enterprise’s life’s blood. When you get a new customer, work to retain them and grow customer lifetime value. While the sales team will always be looking for new customers, retaining a current customer is far cheaper than finding a new customer to replace them. When you retain a customer, you’ve
    2. Don't Push the Panic Button on Your 401(k) Investments
      For most people, their 401(k) is their largest investment account, and the stock drop during the last week of February has many folks feeling pretty nervous right about now. We all work hard for our money, so this is a natural reaction. But be careful: If you run scared, by selling off stocks now and moving into cash,
    3. Fixed Income Fund Flows Dominant Over Equities Amid Recession Threat
      Courtesy of ZeroHedge View original post here. Fund flows into taxable bond funds and ETFs continue to trump equity funds and ETFs into the late year, reported Lipper Alpha Insight. Investors are preparing for a further deceleration in the US economy by plowing more than $262.1 billion into taxable bond funds (includin
    4. Foster Leadership In Your Workplace With These 6 Foolproof Tips
      We’ve all probably heard the old adage before: there’s no ‘I’ in team. Every employee is an asset to the team and brings value by working together. A good leader follows this adage. But, a great leader gets the entire team in the “there’s no ‘I’ in team” mentality and builds them up to be future leaders by fostering le
    5. How to Effectively Manage Teams in the Post-COVID Era
      The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we do business and live our lives in many important ways. No matter the industry or niche you’re in, you surely had to find ways to accommodate new trends in managing operations, such as remote work, closing your physical stores to everything except low-contact strategies, and the
    6. How to host a successful virtual event for your business if you've never done it before, according to online event planners
      Summary List PlacementMigrating live events to online spaces has been one of the great workplace challenges of the pandemic. Many small businesses have had to get creative to survive lockdowns, keep clients coming in, and network with fellow entrepreneurs. And there's good reason to keep up (virtual) appearances: Cyber
    7. Is ‘work-from-anywhere’ right for your small business?
      Fall is right around the corner, and it marks a return to the office for many companies. However, many are still determining how to proceed—in person, remote, or a hybrid model? The pandemic has proven there are many ways to work, each with their own unique set of benefits. While many employees miss in-person collabora
    8. Organize Your Business Bank Accounts
      It’s fairly common, in my experience, for small business owners to have unorganized business bank accounts. Some small business owners don’t even HAVE business bank accounts when they start their companies. While money is at the heart of our businesses, most people tend to think about generating sales and increasing re
    9. Student loan help emerges as top benefit option
      Student loan programs are the No. 1 new benefit that companies are planning to start providing to their employees during their open enrollment period this year, according to Employee Benefit Adviser's Open Enrollment Readiness Benchmark. The benchmark, now a quarterly feature, surveys employers on critical elements of
    10. Tips for Spending Money Wisely as a Business Owner
      It’s fun to be in charge, but it also means you’re responsible for making the tough decisions. There’s no doubt that finances and managing your business’s finances is essential to the success of your business. You can’t be afraid to dive deep into your business money matters, and you have to take control. Here are some