6 Things Every Company Should Know Before Starting a Subscription Box Service

There has been a recent surge in the popularity of subscription boxes. Customers enjoy receiving a box of products every month, whether it’s ingredients for meals, beauty products, alcohol, coffee or even specialty products such as Japanese snack foods. There seems to be no shortage of new ideas for niche products in the subscription box...

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Three Compelling Questions to Ask in Any Sales Campaign

One thing that the most proficient salespeople instinctively and intuitively do on a consistent basis is to focus on the right deals. They seem to have their own built‐in or hard‐wired qualification system for accurately and effectively assessing their sales opportunities. They clearly don’t chase every deal that’s placed in front of them. It’s like they have a sixth sense about working on the right deals…the deals they have the...

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How to Streamline Your Software Development Process

Software development is arguably the key strategic component of IT today. Chief Information officers (CIOs) face constant pressure to deliver custom software development projects that meet set business goals. Ensuring effective project planning and requirements management results in a smooth software development process. The planning, development...

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Healthcare Coverage and Global Priorities

According to the World Health Organisation, healthcare or “universal healthcare coverage” is a global priority. In developing countries, access to universal healthcare is deemed “urgent”, while in developed nations, governments focus on increasing access to additional private healthcare coverage to supplement government-run universal coverage. Reportlinker...

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How to Set Up a Business Office – from Construction to Supplies to Even Fencing for the Business

When you hear the words “setting up a business” it’s normal to think of the financial aspect, marketing efforts and the nitty-gritty of it, but there is also a whole other side of setting up a business that is just as important. While you may do your administrative work out of a home office, your overall company may need a physical location where business can take place, which means you also need to put the thought, planning,...

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How to Create an App like Postmates for a Food Delivery Business

Every food business owner wants to make their own food delivery app. Unfortunately, they often do not have enough of an understanding of coding. To help them, we have put together this article. In this article, we discuss how to make an application like Postmates. Before we go further, let us first go over how beneficial delivery apps are, especially in food industries. Let’s get started! Benefits of Food Delivery Apps 1. Business...

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Home Office Tips: Carpet Cleaning for Pet Stains and Odor Removal

Having a pet can make your house a livelier and more enjoyable place but there are some problems that business owners who work out of a home office must be ready to encounter. One of the most common issues that pet owners tend to face is the pet stain odor. Pet urine soaks easily into a carpet, leaving a stinky odor and making the environment much more unpleasant. You may try your best to keep your pets out of your home office...

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How to Affordably Furnish Your Home Office

There is an increasing trend towards more people working from home either in their own home business or working for a company that allows their employees to work remotely part-time or full-time. This trend is predicted to grow even more as indicated in research by PSKF* that found 60 percent of today’s office-based employees are expected to work remotely by 2022. If you are working from home, it is important that you have enough...

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A Trade War With China Is Not in America’s Interest

A trade war with China would inflict far more damage on the American economy than could be recouped from tariffs and other protectionist levies. That’s the problem with the Trump administration’s unilateral action, taken under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, to levy punitive tariffs on up to $50 billion of goods from China. Already that decision has prompted a retaliatory response from Beijing that targets 128 American products...

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Facebook’s ‘Favors’ for Obama Campaign May Have Violated Federal Law

Controversy continues to swirl around how the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from over 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge and used it to target ads to individuals in an effort to help Donald Trump be elected president in 2016. But a more serious case of apparent misconduct involves Facebook data going to a different presidential campaign—this time in 2012. In this case, which is getting...

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Let Us Catch You Up on the Biggest Stories in Politics This Week

From the expulsion of Russian diplomats to a citizenship question on the 2020 census, here are five of the biggest stories driving U.S. politics this week, in a nutshell. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2Ij7b0R via IFT...

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U.S. Says It Can Pay for 100 Miles of Wall on 2,000-Mile Border

The Trump administration called the money for building new and replacement barriers a first step in the president’s promise for a border wall with Mexico. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2pV2ItB via IFT...

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Hope Hicks Is Gone, and It’s Not Clear Who Can Replace Her

Thursday was the last day at the White House for the 29-year-old from Connecticut, who followed an unlikely career path to become a presidential confidante. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2GX00fs via IFT...

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What Happened at the Pulse Nightclub

In one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Here’s how that attack unfolded. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2J4gMK4 via IFT...

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Video Explainer: Breaking Down the 27 Words of the Second Amendment

Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains what he calls “the most cryptic part of the United States Constitution.” from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2E6OTxp via IFT...

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‘It’s Factory North America,’ but Trump Could Hobble It

What the journey of a Union Pacific locomotive reveals about Trump’s plans for the North American economy. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2pRwPTy via IFT...

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How Will the Midterm Elections Play Out? Watch Pennsylvania

With a clutch of newly flippable House seats and signs of growing voter restiveness, the state is shaping up as a focal point in the fight for control of Congress, strategists in both parties say. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2pTuzKC via IFT...

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Trump, Lacking Leverage Over North Korea, Takes Aim at South Instead

By tying a trade deal with South Korea to progress in denuclearizing Pyongyang, President Trump is pressuring an ally hoping it will help him deal with a reclusive foe. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2pQAFvx via IFT...

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On Washington: Broad Spending Bills Here to Stay as Long as Congressional Dysfunction Reigns

Without major change, spending bills that are too big to veto will most likely remain the standard in Congress, despite President Trump’s insistence that he’ll never sign one again. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2pQaXYR via IFT...

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Silicon Valley Warms to Trump After a Chilly Start

Even though Mr. Trump still takes potshots at Amazon, the industry’s relationship with the White House is shifting as tech companies find some common ground with the president. from NYT > Politics https://ift.tt/2GkMuB3 via IFT...

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In Iowa's GOP ag epicenter, tariffs spark Trump skepticism

HOSPERS, Iowa (AP) -- In Sioux County, where swine barns interrupt the vast landscape of corn-stubbled fields, exports of meat, grain and machinery fuel the local economy. And there's a palpable sense of unease that new Chinese tariffs pushed by President Donald Trump - who received more than 80 percent of the vote here in 2016 - could threaten residents' livelihood.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m....

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Court: Government can't block immigrant teens from abortion

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court in Washington has told the Trump administration that the government can't interfere with the ability of pregnant immigrant teens being held in federal custody to obtain abortions.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2gspatC via IFT...

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Trump's talk of a Syria pullout nothing new

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's unscripted remark this week about pulling out of Syria "very soon," while at odds with his own policy, was not a one-off: For weeks, top advisers have been fretting about an overly hasty withdrawal as the president has increasingly told them privately he wants out, U.S. officials said.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2uuQxWl via...

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Could enemies target undersea cables that link the world?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2Gm5hvN via IFT...

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Officials set April date for New Mexico border wall work

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials are hoping to break ground on a project replacing 20 miles of border wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico in early April.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2GzZLZH via IFT...

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EPA to loosen rules for automobile gas mileage, pollution

DETROIT (AP) -- The Trump administration is expected to announce that it will roll back automobile gas mileage and pollution standards.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2J9t4AL via IFT...

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Congresswoman, outspoken MeToo advocate, says she won't quit

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, an outspoken advocate for the #MeToo movement, has found herself in the awkward position of apologizing for not protecting female staffers in her Washington office who say they experienced violence, death threats and sexual harassment by her former chief of staff.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2pTdqkd via IFT...

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end email case

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to dismiss a case about emails the government wants as part of a drug trafficking investigation.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2yNqNtg via IFT...

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AP PHOTOS: Washington then and now, 50 years after MLK riots

Riots erupted in America's capital in the hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Grieving and angry, rioters smashed windows, looted and burned buildings for several days, and at least 10 people lost their lives as a result of the violence.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2pPNiYf via IFT...

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Qatar, UAE spend heavily on lobbyists amid a war of words

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A diplomatic crisis tearing at the Middle East has ignited a multimillion-dollar battle for influence in Washington between bitter rivals Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.... from AP Top Political News at 12:56 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2pQPAXg via IFT...

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Fannie Mae: Mortgage Serious Delinquency rate decreased slightly in February

Fannie Mae reported that the Single-Family Serious Delinquency rate decreased to 1.22% in February, down from 1.23% in January. The serious delinquency rate is up from 1.19% in February 2017. These are mortgage loans that are "three monthly payments or more past due or in foreclosure".  The Fannie Mae serious delinquency rate peaked...

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Q1 GDP Forecasts

Here are few Q1 GDP forecast. From Merrill Lynch: The data sliced 0.3pp from 1Q GDP tracking, bringing it down to 1.6%. [March 29 estimate]. And from the Altanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2018 is 2.4 percent on March 29, up from 1.8 percent on March...

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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Up Year-over-Year

From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 24 March The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 18-24 March 2018, according to data from STR. In comparison with the week of 19-25 March 2017, the industry recorded the following: • Occupancy: +1.0...

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Reis: Mall Vacancy Rate increased slightly in Q1 2018

Reis reported that the vacancy rate for regional malls was 8.4% in Q1 2018, up from 8.3% in Q4 2017, and up from 7.9% in Q1 2017. This is down from a cycle peak of 9.4% in Q3 2011. For Neighborhood and Community malls (strip malls), the vacancy rate was 10.0% in Q1, unchanged from 10.0% in Q4, and up from 9.9% in Q1 2017. For strip...

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Dennis Rodman: I hope Kim Jong Un wears a 'Make America Great Again' hat after meeting Trump

The only man in the world who is friends with both the dictator running North Korea and the president of the United States hopes the two will hit it off when they meet in May. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2pT5Hmg via IFT...

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IG report faults ex-FBI official McCabe for lying four separate times, congressman says

The inspector general report that led to the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe faults him for lying four separate times, a Republican congressman said. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2pTttih via IFT...

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Flynn selling home under mounting legal bills, as McCabe racks up cash online to pay lawyers

Call it a tale of two targets. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser and retired three-star Army general, is on the brink of financial ruin, selling his Virginia home in order to pay his mounting legal bills. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2IkgduG via IFT...

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Army mulls tougher basic training for out-of-shape, undisciplined recruits

Citing a disturbing trend of new soldiers lacking both proper discipline and physical fitness, senior U.S. Army leaders are calling for a tougher and longer basic training program as the military looks to better prepare grunts for combat over the next decade. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2Gnohdv via IFT...

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Hillary Clinton's $25G for Rutgers speech was less than school paid 'Snooki'

Hillary Clinton has been known to make huge sums in speaking fees, but Thursday’s reported payment may sound like she was short-changed. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2If9hPb via IFT...

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VA chief's firing portrayed as chaotic, but Trump had some good reasons

This is how the firing of the VA secretary could have been framed: David Shulkin had gotten himself in a heap of trouble. from FOX News https://ift.tt/2Igb4n6 via IFT...

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Your Favorite Featured Shops This Season

Photo by Aquarian Thoughts Every week on the Etsy Journal, we share a fresh in-depth story about one of the talented makers or creative collectives who fill our marketplace with its distinctive blend of delightful, unique goods. We discover how (and where, and when) they work, what inspires them, and what gives their products their own indelible...

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How to Increase Your Employees' Satisfaction Without Giving Them a Raise

It's not just about the money. from Entrepreneur https://ift.tt/2E7shgb via IFT...

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3 Crucial Metrics to Measure When You Advertise In 2018

The new opportunities in the digital marketing space are reserved for the nimblest entrants. from Entrepreneur https://ift.tt/2pTi5CH via IFT...

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5 Launch Lessons From Khloe Kardashian's #GoodMama Fashion Line

The Kardashians have created an empire, and Khloe's new campaign is just one example of why. from Entrepreneur https://ift.tt/2Gp09Ho via IFT...

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4 Steps to Getting More Referrals From Everyone You Meet

Network better with these four tips. from Entrepreneur https://ift.tt/2GY7ApP via IFT...

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Do Your Clients Trust Your Team? 3 Ways to Ensure They Do.

Employees who are treated well will treat customers and clients well, too. That's just good management 101. from Entrepreneur https://ift.tt/2J8Yp6C via IFT...

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