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  • How to Warm Up Frosty Leads

    Do you struggle to generate qualified leads? Most companies do. While we all would love to have 100% of our leads red hot and ready to turn into sales immediately, most need a little thawing out. Thus, we often find that spending more time lead nurturing is the key to lead qualification. In fact,…

    Business 2 Community
  • Emerging FX derivatives turnover rises as investors hedge risk-BIS

    Investors seeking to cut exchange rate risk have driven a rise in the emerging currency derivatives market, with turnover increasing by 40 percent in the past three years, a BIS survey showed on Sunday. The survey, an update on the triennial survey published by the Bank for International…

    Reuters
  • Credit Cards Are Now Offering 0% APR Through 2015

    Consumers can now get rid of high interest rates and get 0% APR for 18 months. Compare these leading 2013 credit card offers and find your best offer.

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  • Improve Sales Training – Flip It

    Recently we came across an article about an innovation in our public schools that is getting a lot of buzz – Flipping. The idea is simple: by using technology students spend time at home getting up-to-speed on a given area of knowledge, then in the classroom the teacher, instead of lecturing from…

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    How to buy gift cards at a discount

    Herb Weisbaum has some tips on getting more than your money's worth when buying gift cards.

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  • Social Media: 11 Tips to Make Love Online

    After following each other for some time, I spot you across the crowded room, we exchange glances, knowing there may be some kind of opportunity for deeper engagement. I offer a needed service you have been craving. Something you have been interested in for a long time, but didn’t know where to…

    Business 2 Community
  • Are You Doing a Good Job Managing Your Customer Service Progression?

    In order to consistently deliver best in class customer service, you have to constantly reflect on the progression of your team’s delivery of right customer results. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a customer service manager, business owner, corporate executive, or business professional in charge…

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  • 3 Holiday Job Hunting Tips

    Hiring often slows or stops during the holidays, but your job search should not. Here are some job hunting tips that can help.

    Credit.com
  • Some show-me-the-money gifts to consider

    Your Money: Ways to wrap a little savings into your gifts for children and adults.

    USA TODAY
  • Growth In China's Passenger Vehicle Sales Stayed Brisk In November

    Sales of passenger vehicles in China, the world?s largest auto market, rose by 14.9% in November to 1.63 million units, the government-published China Daily said on Saturday, citing China Passenger Car Association figures. That puts the industry on track for a?full-year increase in 2013 compared…

    Forbes
  • This Weekend's Barron's: Favorite Stocks for 2014 ~ Coach Will Reinvigorate Its Classic Brand ~ Airlines Is the Top Performing Industry Group ~ Three Banks That Could Be Takeover Targets

    Barron's 10 Favorite Stocks for 2014 Even after the market's big rally, some shares look attractively cheap. How edgier designs and a push into new growth areas are likely to help the handbag maker reinvigorate its classic brand and fend off Michael Kors.

    Barrons.com
  • Ex-SAC trader points to Cohen testimony in insider trading case

    By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A former SAC Capital Advisors trader, set to go on trial next month on insider trading charges, wants to cite in court some 2012 testimony given by the hedge fund's founder Steven Cohen, claiming it rebuts the government's case. Mathew Martoma, the ex-SAC portfolio…

    Reuters
  • What 4 Real Success Stories Can Teach Us About Social Selling in Financial Services

    If you are not an active participant in social networks, it can be difficult to imagine how social engagement and online networking leads to actual business opportunities. Yet, there are financial professionals out there that have embraced social selling and are having real success driving business…

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    Should Chimps Have Human Rights? - Discovery News

    There's a group of people who've gone to court, trying to give a captive chimpanzee many of the same rights as human beings. The group called the 'Nonhuman Rights Project' is posing some very interesting arguments that could have wide-ranging implications for intelligent animals across the US.…

    DNews
  • Who Needs Desks?

    No one in business loves fixed costs. A big reason why is that they’re not typically dependent on the level of sales. Once committed, over a financial year, for example, they don’t vary with the activity of the company. These costs — salaries, utilities, rent, facilities — burden the management…

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  • Public Records Posted Online for Anyone to See

    Did you know that public records are posted online and can be viewed by anyone in seconds? Marriages, divorces, bankruptcies, etc. Search anyone.

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  • Exclusive: Comcast taps JPMorgan on potential Time Warner Cable bid - sources

    Top U.S. cable provider Comcast Corp has tapped JPMorgan Chase & Co for advice as it evaluates a potential bid for Time Warner Cable Inc, people familiar with the matter said. Comcast brought in the bank to help review options as speculation about cable industry consolidation increased in the past…

    Reuters
  • Strong jobs report ignites broad Wall Street rally

    U.S. stocks rose on Friday after a stronger-than-expected payrolls report gave traders confidence that the economy could be healthy enough to withstand a scaling back of the Federal Reserve's stimulus. Nonfarm payrolls added 203,000 in November, exceeding the forecast, and the U.S. unemployment…

    Reuters
  • Oregon gives Intel a Nike-like tax deal

    Gov. John Kitzhaber announced Friday that he's giving Intel a tax deal similar to the one he granted Nike a year ago. The 30-year agreement promises that any changes to Oregon's corporate tax structure ...

    Associated Press
  • Herbalife Wins Dismissal of Belgian ‘Pyramid Scheme’ Suit

    Herbalife Ltd. won a Belgian appeals court ruling rejecting claims the company is a pyramid scheme, and concluding that income its distributors earn from others recruited to buy or sell its products isn’t ...

    Bloomberg
  • RIG Crosses Below Key Moving Average Level

    In trading on Friday, shares of Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $49.55, changing hands as low as $49.52 per share. Transocean Ltd. shares are currently trading down about 0.1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of RIG shares, [...]

    Forbes
  • [video] Pricing the market

    Debating the strength of the stock market, with CNBC's Seema Mody and Dominc Chu. Mody contends she has the stats to prove the market is overvalued. Chu says he has the numbers to show that even with today's ...

    CNBC