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Five Signs It's Time to Retire in 2025
Are you on the fence about retiring this year? Consider these signs to determine whether or not you're ready
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Millennials are drowning in student loan debt: How financial wellness programs can help
With tuition rising almost eight times faster than wages, it is no wonder that millennial student debt has skyrocketed well beyond the level experienced by their Gen X and Baby Boomer parents. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average cost of a college education in 2016 was $104,480–double
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What Your Customers Really Think About Customer Service
We know that customer service is important. It’s what differentiates your brand from your competitors and where customers decide to become authentic brand ambassadors. While we live and breathe interactions with customers every day, we sought out consumers to understand how perceptions and opinions about customer servi
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Supply Chain Disruptions Are Pushing Up Inflation, But The Stock Market May Not Care
A few items were out of stock when the pandemic struck, but prices did not rise due to the moribund economy. A longer list of items is now in short supply, but the economy is recovering strongly. This could spark a persistent rise of inflation, but it is not clear that the impact on stocks will be negative.gettyPrior t
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How Small Businesses Can Clear the Economic Hurdles Ahead
For SMB owners seeking to chart a course through this uncertain landscape, a few key principles are important to keep in mind.
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Customer Retention Optimization Strategies to Keep Customers Long-Term
Your customers are your enterprise’s life’s blood. When you get a new customer, work to retain them and grow customer lifetime value. While the sales team will always be looking for new customers, retaining a current customer is far cheaper than finding a new customer to replace them. When you retain a customer, you’ve
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The way companies project growth shapes the economic outlook. Here’s how to face the slowdown.
Editor’s note: The following is a guest article from Mark Schwartz, enterprise strategist at AWS. For the most part, the global economy is
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6 cost management strategies for CIOs amid geopolitical disruption
Editor's note: The following is a guest article from Chris Ganly, research vice president at Gartner, Inc. The pandemic and Russia's invasion of
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Why Jerome Powell's business-as-usual Jackson Hole speech was the best possible outcome
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's annual Jackson Hole speech was uneventful, but that's not a bad thing. Powell reiterated the Fed could start tapering its asset purchases this year and rates aren't changing soon. Stocks hit record highs during the speech as investors shrugged off fears of an early pullback in Fed support. See
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The Fed is confident it can stave off a recession in 2022, but others aren't so sure
A growing number of experts see a recession on the horizon, but the economic community is split. Fed chair Jerome Powell believes the US can still