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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

Train sales representatives to enter every conversation from the standpoint of providing a solution that meets the customer’s agenda — and timeline — as opposed to their own. Target your advertising on LinkedIn and Facebook with a greater degree of precision. Focus on the customer’s timeline, not yours.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Advertisers. “Investors rush to get on the train even as it accelerates. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.