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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes. Losing group health insurance clients due to cost or participation requirements? Partner with a defined contribution software provider.

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Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools

crowdSPRING Blog

Surprise is more effective than other forms of retention-based marketing. Surprise is a more effective marketing tool than nearly all forms of retention-based marketing. Adopting a ‘surprise’ strategy thus requires a careful analysis of the costs and benefits (e.g., A few words of caution. Surprise marketing can backfire.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. Do you need this for recruitment and retention? Rightly or wrongly, public ownership often lends prestige and credibility to the company in its sales efforts, general public relations, and the execution of its future strategies.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. But stuff like retention is super important. Jonathan Siddharth. Sounds great.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Moreover, they can have considerable positive effects on the user experience as well, which translates into metrics that are harder to measure, but are nonetheless of paramount importance to online businesses, such as customer satisfaction and retention. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? I believe, their results speak for themselves.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

The salesperson who built the relationship with you in the beginning would make the sale, and then pass you off to a retention manager, and it was easy to slip through the cracks or simply become a monthly paycheck. In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. ,