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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Detroit , MI With the auto industry and heavy manufacturing in decline, Detroit is using its stimulus dollars to combat soaring unemployment.

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

– Alex “Sandy&# Pentland MIT Human Dynamics Lab in Harvard Business Review Another study, at a bank’s telephone call center, showed that operators who spent their breaks speaking to coworkers not only got more work done but experienced less workplace stress.

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How I Discovered My Leadership Secret Weapon

Terry Starbucker

This group, called Connection Enterprises , would call all new subscribers after they had the service for a week or two, and have a conversation with them, thanking them for their business, and asking a couple of questions about the quality of their service. John W and Connection Enterprises still make customer calls in Ft.

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The 7 Essential Truths About Social Media

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The 7 Essential Truths About Social Media by Starbucker on October 21, 2010 Photo by webtreats It’s been 5 years now since I jumped into the Social Media pool. Are there more that I missed? Popularity: 3% [ ? Make sense?

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Leading Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud. I'd call Eric's methods to lead a choir he'll never conduct in person a foretaste of Anywhere Leadership. That work isn't somewhere else, it's anywhere.

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Rethinking the Bank Branch in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

JP Morgan Chase, although a digital innovator, has opened 600 branches since January 2010 while closing 325. USAA Bank, which has a long history of industry-leading service without relying on a branch network, has steadily been opening physical service centers at key locations.

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How Life Insurers Can Bring Their Business into the 21st Century

Harvard Business Review

million – between 1990 and 2010. Only 44% of households had any life insurance in 2010, which is a 50-year low. According to LIMRA , the life insurance industry trade association, the number of individual holders of life insurance in the U.S. dropped 45% – from 17.7 million to 9.7 In 1960, it was 72% of households.