When it comes to mortgage loans, whether they're in Denver or some other city, the average borrower will have to choose from two main types of loans: fixed rate mortgage loans and adjustable rate mortgage loans.This choice may turn out to be the most important one that you'll make during your decision making process as to how you'll be financing your home. The overall mortgage formula used to determine how much you'll pay based on your interest...more
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Is your business's shop floor taking full advantage of a customer relationship management (CRM) system? If not, you might not only be failing to earn your clients' loyalty, you might also outright be losing them. CIS Magazine found this topic so important that it recently ran a feature article titled "Top Ten Tips to Build and Keep Customer Loyalty with CRM."Before delving into some of those strategies, let's get a better picture of CRM. Short for customer relationship management, CRM is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) module that is a key element to factory floor efficiency. A "company-wide computer software system" ERP is "used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores," explains Wikipedia.Shop floor managers can get the most out of ERP (and CRM) with a real-time data collection system that utilizes touch screen capabilities. That's because such a scheduling system visually improves the sequencing of production (and raw materials) through a PC-based system that is completely interfaced with most ERP and MRP systems.Now that you know what ERP and CRM are, let's get back to their customer loyalty advantages...more
Processing Talk, which covers the latest news for engineers in the process industries, recently addressed the topic of how an "Efficiency system improves factory operations." More specifically, the publication detailed how a factory floor efficiency system was "helping to ensure smooth running" at a U.K. ice-cream plant. But indeed, a real-time...more
There is no shortage on advice on Goal Setting, and it's one of the "basics" of business planning. But how do you set goals when sales are down and all you hear on the news is bad news. What is the alternative? Participate in the recession? Just sit back and let things happen to you? Good economy or bad, goal setting is pivotal. From professional...more
What is a strategic alliance? It is an alliance between two or more entrepreneurs or business owners who work together in a strategic fashion for mutual benefit. It is a double "win" arrangement that is based on a solid joint relationship.If you are considering a joint venture or strategic alliance, begin your process with a few questions: Who is your ideal customer? What is your target market and demographic? Who is your competition? Who else provides similar services or products in your industry? These questions can help you discover potential strategies that can be achieved through an alliance with another business owner.What are some sample strategies that could work with your joint venture alliance?- Use seminars, workshops, and other public forums to promote you and your partner to the marketplace.- Offer creative combinations of your products or services as a package deal.- Create a newsletter, or contribute to each other's newsletters by writing articles.- Endorse your strategic alliance partner's business to your clients and customers through your mailing list. Have your partner do the same.- Include a special offer coupon to your joint venture partner's email and snail...more
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