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The 2 keys to great marketing
yesterday at 11:53 by Steve Billingham
What’s the key to becoming a great marketer, and getting a growing stream of new customers to buy your products and services?
Taper vapours as Bernanke press conference looms
yesterday at 10:46 by Matt Williams
Six years after Northern Rock went down the pan, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has at last completed its study of failed banks and has made a series of recommendations to the ...
Get your customers to pay in advance, they will enjoy it
yesterday at 10:38 by Graham Jones
Where do people argue most about what they have to pay? The chances are it is in a restaurant. Eating out is generally a pleasurable experience. You spend an evening chatting with friends, laughing, ...
How not to do economic forecasts
2 Days ago at 10:59 by Diane Coyle, OBE
Every so often I come across a book that should be read by: (a) all economists; (b) all students; (c) everybody involved in politics and policy; and (d) everybody else with an interest in the world. ...
Tomorrow's Fed overshadows today's inflation data
2 Days ago at 10:48 by Matt Williams
Residents of a pitifully run-down area of Northeast England grasped a last chance to lift their dingy terrace out of the grip of the grinding poverty that afflicts everywhere north of Watford. They ...
Video: whilst the market gets excited about unemployment falling to 6.5%, the Fed’s attention is turning to falling inflation
2 Days ago at 10:44 by Jim Leaviss
I spent a couple of days in New York last week seeing economists and academics. The US Treasury market had just seen a significant sell-off, with 10 year yields rising from 1.63% at the start of May, ...
Annuity Rates Will Rise Slowly Warns Financial Expert
3 Days ago at 10:08 by John Taylor
A national newspaper got very excited a few days ago over the prospects of a sharp rise in annuity rates – the same newspaper, incidentally, that periodically scares its readers with stories about ...
UK homeowners increasingly optimistic
3 Days ago at 10:03 by Matt Williams
There is a growing outcry about the underhand and grasping tactics employed by local authorities to extract money from drivers. In many towns photographs are accepted as proof of guilt in parking ...
That's NOT Simplification...
3 Days ago at 9:59 by Mark McLaughlin
I have just finished reading the HMRC consultation document Inheritance Tax: Simplifying Charges on Trusts - The Next Stage The document states: "HMRC believes that worthwhile improvements to the way ...
It’s official: Internet Addiction DOES NOT exist
3 Days ago at 9:57 by Graham Jones
Woman snorting cocaine or amphetamines, symbol of internet addictionFor several years now the popular media has liked to talk about people being “addicted” to the Internet. Indeed you will find ...
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