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How Can You Manage Your Small Business Finances More Effectively Using Loans?

Strategy Driven

Also like other types of loans, a business owner’s credit rating can be a deciding factor in whether a loan is approved or not, and it impacts the interest rate of any loan as well. Much like any other loans, they come with interest to pay, and there is also variable loan vs fixed to consider.

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Using Digital Exhaust to Improve Sales

Harvard Business Review

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. It notifies a company if one of its competitors files a credit check on a customer, signaling potential defection.

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Three Questions to Ask Your Advanced-Analytics Team

Harvard Business Review

Here's something that senior managers should keep in mind as they launch Big Data initiatives: Advanced analytics is mostly about finding relationships between different sets of data. Say you're a manager at a consumer retail store — how many web customers also purchase at your brick and mortar stores, and how often?