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What Relationship Marketing Can Mean For Your Business

By Kailynn Bowling, co-founder of ChicExecs PR & Retail Strategy Firm.

When it comes to growing your business, customers are key. While you should definitely create valuable products that your customers will love, you need to take things a step further when it’s time to market your products.

There’s nothing wrong with posting on TikTok or attending trade shows, but I find that most marketing campaigns are missing an essential ingredient: relationships. If you want to build a loyal following of lifelong customers, you have to invest in relationships with your customers.

If you haven’t tried it yet,

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24HR Business Plan launches 24HR Marketing Plan

24HR Business Plan, a business growth consultancy, has launched a new product offering – the 24HR Marketing Plan – to further drive client growth opportunities.

Jarther Taylor will lead 24HR Marketing Plan (24HRMP), joined by renowned global marketing leaders David Rebetzke and Bronwyn Powell as the senior advisory team.

Aimed primarily at small to medium size business enterprises or larger companies with small marketing teams, 24HRMP builds on the successful principles of the 24HR Business Plan and will help organizations bridge the gap between business and marketing strategies.

Andrew Baxterfounder and senior advisor, 24HR Business

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Almost Half of Small Businesses Struggle to Fill Open Jobs

Amid the tightest labor market in decades, small businesses across the US are grappling with worker shortages and struggling to fill open positions.

Close to half or 47% of small businesses have job openings they can’t fill, according to the latest monthly jobs report by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

More than half or 60% of small business owners said they were hiring or trying to hire in February, up three points from January. However, 30% reported there were few qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill, and 24% said there were no applicants at

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Nordstrom closed all of its Canadian stores, cutting 2,500 jobs

“We do not see a realistic path to profitability for the Canadian business,” said the CEO

The Canadian Press

Tara Deschamps

Published March 02, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 2 minute read

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Shoppers take the escalators at a Nordstrom store in downtown Toronto. Nordstrom Inc. says it is winding down its Canadian operations and closing all of its stores in Canada.
Shoppers take the escalators at a Nordstrom store in downtown Toronto. Nordstrom Inc. says it is winding down its Canadian operations and closing all of its stores in Canada. Photo by Christopher Katsarov /THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Nordstrom Inc. is closing all of its Canadian stores and cutting

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What Happens When You Don’t Fund Your Trust?

After you work with your estate planning attorney to draft a carefully tailored estate plan, it is usually your responsibility to “fund” the trust.

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What does funding the trust mean?

Funding the trust is simply transferring assets into your trust.

If you have a trust, you will want to put your assets into the trust, by retitling bank accounts, re-designating beneficiaries of life insurance, etc. We walk our clients through

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Meta working on a decentralized social media app: Moneycontrol

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is exploring a decentralized text-based Twitter alternative, business news site Moneycontrol reported on Friday.

See related articles: Meta’s metaverse division Reality Labs posts wider loss of $13.7 billion in 2022

Fast facts

  • According to Meta documents reviewed by Moneycontrol, the decentralized social media app, coined P92, will allow users to log in using credentials from their Instagram accounts. The app is reportedly under development.

  • A report by Platformer claimed that Instagram head Adam Mosseri would oversee the project, with Meta’s legal department investigating early privacy concerns.

  • In a separate report, a

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Don’t Want to Fully Merge Finances? Consider a Money Partnership

When tax time rolls around each year, it’s common for couples to discuss money matters. You kinda have to, right? You’ll see where you stand — how much tax you owe or the expected size of your refund. Fingers crossed.

It’s a good opportunity to benchmark your progress toward money goals, for sure. And you may not spend a lot of time discussing how to improve your financial position. Tax time is more of a “get it done” moment.

But improving net worth and financial security are built on the foundation of small, consistent moves. That requires ongoing communication.

Merging

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Time to deal with the ‘nastiest, hardest problem in finance’

The UK government’s decision last week to push down the age at which workers can automatically be enrolled in a company pension scheme was widely praised. This is great news — given the power of compounding on long-term savings, the earlier people get going, the better.

But with that decision out of the way it is time for the government to look at the other end of the pensions market and tackle what Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe has called the “nastiest, hardest problem in finance” — the question of decumulation , or how to plan savings and spending in

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