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Are Merchant Account Fees Too High?
There is growing concern among business owners that merchant account fees are too high. This concern becomes magnified every time Visa and MasterCard raise their interchange rates -- the rates Visa and MasterCard member issuing banks charge on credit card transactions, ultimately passed down to merchants. The article addresses the topic of ever-increasing credit card rates and whether Visa and MasterCard should cap their profit and limit it to a fixed percentage over the costs that they incur.
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Nine Ways to Build Your Business Without Making Cold Calls
Depending on the type of business you're trying to build, some of the methods will be more practical or more appropriate than the others, but ALL of them should be explored as practical alternatives to traditional telemarketing. They are listed in order from the method that is LEAST resource consuming and MOST convenient in your current daily operation to the method that is MOST resource consuming and LEAST convenient. Let's begin.
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To Tag Or Not To Tag?
A tagline is a succinct phrase that communicates some of the basics of your brand. Ideally, your tagline is also memorable and helps your target audience relate to your business. If used correctly, a tagline can be a powerful part of your marketing strategy.
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Rethinking Learning Retention - Organizational Learning on Steroids
Training is used as the solution and takes the blame for the presence and absence of key skills yet rarely is time invested taking a close look at what makes the learning stick within the social and cultural context. Frequently organizational habits get in the way. To find out what really makes organizational learning work you must see and understand the deeper dynamic.
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Corporate Parties Can Be Fun Too
Planning the corporate party may be a job that is no one's idea of a good assignment but the party itself can be fun. Striking the delicate balance between light socializing and appropriate corporate conduct is the tricky part.
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What Most Employers Don't Want You to Know When They Talk Salary
When hiring managers describe a salary and benefits package to you, they have one main objective in mind: To get the best possible talent for the least possible expense. They're not going to volunteer the fact that they can go higher in salary or negotiate concessions in your benefits package.
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Top 10 Label Artwork Mistakes
Label print shops everywhere have to deal with artwork received from people who often have very little experience in graphic design. There are many common mistakes that can be avoided that will make working a your label printer so much easier. This is a top 10 list developed from tens of thousands of customer file submissions.
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Water Jet Machining
Water jet machining technology involves the use of high-pressure water jets for cutting parts out of different types of material such as soft rubber, foam, extremely thin stuff such as foil, carpet, paper, cardboard, soft gasket material, candy bars, diapers, and soft wood. Its use is limited, as it cannot cut harder materials such as metals, glass, and hard wood.
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RFID Technology Simplifies Distribution
There are many applications for how RFID systems help manufacturers and warehouse operations; these applications can be as unique as the enterprise they help. However, there are some common areas in these industries related to their logistics of getting the finished product to the customer or to another distribution center.
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How Businesses are Valued
Business valuation refers to the process of determining the value of a business entity or ownership interest therein. It is a tool used to accurately assess the value of any business. Regarded as a special mix of art and science, business valuation is essential for buy/sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, bankruptcies and gift tax planning.
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Does Your Income Reflect Your Effort?
You can be more efficient in your business and make more money - and still enjoy your work. Begin by understanding how you have made money in the past! Read this article to learn a very simple way to analyze your numbers to make your work easier.
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All About Scrap Metal Recycling
Worldwide metal production is ascertained directly through ore deposits from mining, smelting, and refining. What are secondary metals? They are metals discarded through industrial and manufacturing operations or as commercial products that are now obsolete. The benefit that recycling provides is that we return these waste materials back into the general manufacturing so they can be used for the production of new metal products, thus saving costs and making things more efficient in general. The secondary metals industry is involved in all aspects of this process, from locating scrap, to getting it to a recycle facility and then re-using the material for new metal-based products.
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Cross Cultural Blunders
At our company we often get many emails from visitors to our sites saying how much they enjoy examples of cross cultural blunders. We are constantly asked for more. Bowing to pressure we have therefore complied some more. The following cultural blunders are all examples of ‘culture gone wrong’ in international business today.
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