Recent Articles
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Using postcards to generate calls and referrals
Jeffrey Dobkin MarketingA letter is the best marketing tool. In a letter, you have time and space to sell, sell, sell. You can explain benefits and features. You can show facts and figures. But a letter is a lot of work and expense.
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The secret way to get paid on aged accounts today
Scott Wolfe Jr. Construction & Building MaterialsMost contractors can relate to payment and accounts receivable aging problems. Customers feed out excuse after excuse to delay paying a pay application or invoice in the construction industry.
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Offbeat road trips are on the rise
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe travel industry is definitely bouncing back. Bookings and projections all show the promise of profit in the coming months. Yet there is another travel trend that is showing signs of growth — road trips.
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Economic easing has employees feeling restless
Michael J. Berens Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementDon't look now, but your employees are getting ready to leave — in droves. At least that's what they told the survey researchers at Salary.com. Results from the website's 2014 annual Job Hunters Survey show 83 percent of employees are actively looking for new jobs this year, up 6 percent from last year. What's more interesting, though, is why.
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Wind energy processing technologies steadily advancing
Don Rosato EngineeringWind energy designs increasingly depend on plastics processing and design technologies. Plastic parts and components are extensively used in all major sectors of wind energy, and processing developments in blade manufacturing and service are advancing rapidly.
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ICD-10: Everything you need to know
Maria Frisch Healthcare AdministrationICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification and coding system. The compliance deadline for ICD-10 is Oct. 1, 2015.
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Homework 2.0: It’s time to upgrade our approach
Brian Stack EducationFew would argue the importance of homework on academic achievement. But in today's world, the purpose, amount and type of homework that teachers assign looks vastly different than years ago. In the time of the Common Core, quality homework is tied to specific learning goals for a course.
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Sliding right into the world of Porsche ownership
Charles Zeitz Recreation & LeisureFinally, it happened. I have been watching fast and fancy cars for an entire lifetime. Never had one, but a reasonably priced, good-looking, powerful and superb-handling car presented itself to me at the same time as a touch of personal financial success.
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The anatomy and movement patterns of shoulder impingement syndrome
Heidi Dawson Medical & Allied HealthcareShoulder pain is a common problem. In fact, around 30 percent of us will experience it at some point in our lives. Approximately 65 percent of all shoulder pain conditions are due to impingement syndromes.
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Why gas analysts say the Appalachian is ‘biggest, baddest basin there…
Sasha Viasasha Natural ResourcesThere is definitely something big hiding beneath the Appalachians, but it might not be what you'd expect. The Wall St. Journal reported last October that the Marcellus Shale region under Pennsylvania and West Virginia is producing more natural gas than all of Saudi Arabia. It's pumping out 12 billion cubic feet per day, six times the production rate of five years ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).