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Corporate perks for Fido

Sales and Marketing Management

Companies are taking notice and responding by incorporating pet-friendly perks into their employee policies. The shift to working from home has caused many previous petless households to adopt an animal.

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3 Skills for Influencing the Customer’s Thinking

Sales and Marketing Management

This elevated anxiety likely stems from geopolitical concerns reflected in the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index , which reached its highest-recorded point this year. Research from The Journal of Corporate Finance shows that CEO tenures have halved over the past two decades. CEO tenures are shrinking.

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Is Working From Home Inevitable or Overrated?

Sales and Marketing Management

Much has been made of announcements by technology leaders such as Twitter and Facebook that work from home (now often referenced simply with the acronym WFH) is a permanent or semipermanent policy, at least for a substantial percentage of their work force. Media stories quoting corporate leaders indicate the WFH movement will be widespread.

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Wrap It Up — With a Metaphor

Anne Miller

In a different situation, look at an argument made in a recent Op Ed article in The Wall Street Journal by Senator John Barrasso (R. His goal was to win readers’ support for a policy change. Wyoming), a man with a mission. He argued vs. the United States for still buying uranium from Russia. His key facts included.

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What your employees should know about the many faces of influence

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Here, the influencer bases a request for compliance on existing policy or tradition. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77(4) 525-535. This occurs when the would-be influencer uses demands, or even intimidation, to obtain the target’s compliance. Legitimation. This is the influence tactic otherwise known as quid pro quo.

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How Fintechs Are Helping Small Businesses Thrive With Alternative Lending

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Small businesses are often described as the engine of US job growth, as startups account for about 20% of US gross (total) job creation while young, high-growth businesses account for almost 50% of gross job creation (source: Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 28: The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism).

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Angry customer? Why that’s actually good news for you

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Or hide behind a bureaucratic response: “Well, that’s our policy.” Journal of Retailing 80(3):229-37. What not to do Unfortunately, the same researchers found that even experienced sales professionals often fail to get this message across. They become angry themselves. Or defensive. They try to turn down the heat with soothing words.