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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Businesses should adopt conservative financial management practices , such as effective cash flow monitoring, prudent budgeting, and building a large war chest of cash and other liquid assets. As a result, companies should actively explore emerging technologies that could provide a competitive edge in the market.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

And you answer, “I’d like to buy some transportation.”. Well, yes, you want transportation, but the salesperson can’t actually sell you that, it’s only a concept. I know, this sounds stupid, nobody would try to buy ‘transportation.’. – Better cash flow. – Decreased employee turnover.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

And you answer, “I’d like to buy some transportation.”. Well, yes, you want transportation, but the salesperson can’t actually sell you that, it’s only a concept. I know, this sounds stupid, nobody would try to buy ‘transportation.’. – Better cash flow. – Decreased employee turnover.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. These disruptions add up.

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Chinese Malls Hit With Low Traffic, Rising Vacancies, Plunging Rent, Massive Overcapacity

MishTalk

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. China has countless malls that no one shops in, transportation facilities that no one uses, and entire cities where no one lives. Rather China has overbuilt.

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Why Buying a Company Can Be Better than Starting One

Harvard Business

For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports. As a result, Systems Design West retains virtually 100% of its customers year in and year out.

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