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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

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banking and insurance businesses. Those events trigger USAA to contact the customer at just the right time, with just the right offer, such as auto insurance when a customer’s daughter is about to turn 16. A similar story can be told in retail banking, insurance, credit cards, retail, and other industries.

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Mobile Phones Promise to Bring Banking to the World’s Poorest

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” These services include the ability to deposit and withdraw their earnings, transfer money to friends and family, open and manage savings accounts, and insure their businesses. Because she is paid in cash and conducts all of her transactions in cash, she must travel to pay her bills for medical or child care in person.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

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The old care model creates friction between the practice and the patient: the difficulties and delays in scheduling visits, the hassle of traveling to the practice and waiting in the waiting room, and the penalty of copays and coinsurance make patients think twice before seeking in-person care. A Way Forward.

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Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

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We’re in an unprecedented situation because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and the economic fallout has been drastic for many business sectors, such as travel and restaurants. Unemployment insurance payments 5. The SBA may roll out new guidelines over the next few days but it’s worth getting in line by applying now. government 2.

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