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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small.

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What are the potential risks of digital currency?

Tom Spencer

In 2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were also banned in China as a form of “public financing without approval”. sale of weapons) or confer a net economic benefit to society (e.g. Many small businesses, like family owned restaurants, operate on a cash only basis. Loss of privacy. Centralization of goods markets.

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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. Operating in this manner, you will no longer feel a need to shoehorn all the features, bells and whistles into the conversation.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. You might think companies will get the greatest returns on AI in business functions that touch customers every day (like marketing, sales, and service) or by embedding it in the products they sell to customers (e.g.,

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions. Investment banks now spend an average of $300,000 per year on these functions per “front office” employee who works with clients, such as sales and trading personnel.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

Published articles are high-level sales tools. Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. Sales of your book increase as a result. Publishing articles can lead actually WRITING to a book!

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Australia's Alleged Conservatives Surrender to Unions; GM Australia vs. GM US; Currency Madness Everywhere

MishTalk

Finance reported General Motors to close Australian plants by 2017 Auto giant General Motors said Wednesday it will close its Holden plants in Australia by 2017, prompting Toyota to review its operations as unions warned the car industry was finished. It''s a very bleak day indeed."