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Monthly Archives: October 2014
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Great Customer Service Is Key to Free Publicity
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Offering a great customer service experience could bring in more customers and lead to more sales.
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QNET Launches Mobile App QNET4U
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A wealth of mobile apps is helping shoppers, both customers and business minded people, find the merchandise they want – apps with the right information needed to get the perfect product and business opportunity.
Prominent Asian direct selling company, QNET recently launched a new tool in its sales arsenal called QNET4U – the mobile app that gives prospects the best possible content about shopping and earning with QNET.
QNET4U is mobile app add-on to the already slick QNET presentation, which enables QNET Independent Representative (IR) give prospects a takeaway that has emotion, professionalism and style.
QNET Executive Chairperson Donna Imson, who mooted this idea for an app like QNET4U, especially for prospects, says that by making their company or business available and reachable on mobile, they create a virtual enterprise that benefits both customers and prospects.
“We all know that QNET is the real deal and we are living it already. But convincing a prospect who is weary of direct sales, as we all once were, is one of the greatest daily challenges we face.
“QNET4U wraps-up our best and most up-to-date content and serves it to prospects in a neat app to ensure they see our best side right when they are potentially about
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Meet Trévo CEO Mark Stevens
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Despite having started Trévo LLC just four years ago in his home state of Oklahoma, Mark Stevens’ has already seen his company expand to 14 countries, with plans to add to that number in 2015. As Trévo blazes a trail towards its goal of being the next billion-dollar company, the energetic and highly involved CEO can’t help but look back on his unique path to this point.
“Most people in my position would probably say it’s been a bit of a whirlwind, but this has been a long time coming,” Stevens said. “While Trévo is still young in terms of business, the process – the work and the energy – that has brought my family and me to this point began many years ago.”
Stevens’ journey toward the creation of Trévo began years ago when he was a young man of just 16. As he watched his mom experience years of debilitating illness only made worse by countless prescription medications, Mark committed himself to a higher standard of healthy living and helping others to avoid the same kind of health crisis his mother had to endure.
While still in high school, Mark discovered his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for excellence as he became
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Debt Recovery Gets Friendly in Data-Driven Startup
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Tech startup TrueAccord relies on algorithms and data analytics to make debt recovery a more positive experience for companies and debtors alike.
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4 Franchise Trends That Are Good News for Entrepreneurs
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Franchising has always been a popular way to start a business with lower risk. Here’s why this path to entrepreneurship is growing, and how it will evolve in the coming years.
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Startup Partnerships: Choose Quality Over Quantity
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When forming partnerships, small startups should focus on quality, not quantity. Researchers discovered that startups gain the most benefit by having just a small number of carefully selected alliances with larger organizations.
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Want a Successful Marketing Campaign? Create a Plan First
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Having a documented marketing plan could make your campaigns more successful, but many companies don’t use them.
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Gmail’s Inbox App Makes Managing Work Email Easy
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Motorola’s new flagship smartphone is hard to beat when it comes to performance and features.
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USANA – Q3 Revenue Up 10.5% to $191.9 million
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USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA) today announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended September 27, 2014. The Company also provided updated net sales and earnings guidance for 2014.
Financial Performance:
For the third quarter of 2014, net sales increased by 10.5% to $191.9 million, compared with $173.7 million in the prior-year period. The increase in net sales was driven by overall Associate growth of 18.8%, which was generated by the Companys Asia Pacific region.
Net earnings for the third quarter increased by 16.4% to $19.5 million, compared with $16.8 million during the prior-year period. This increase was driven by higher net sales and lower relative Associate Incentives expense. On a relative basis, Associate Incentives expense declined due to a $4.5 million one-time payout resulting from the pricing and compensation plan initiatives implemented by the Company in the third quarter of 2013. Earnings per share for the quarter increased by 26.7% to $1.47, compared with $1.16 in the third quarter of the prior year.
This increase in earnings per share was attributable to higher net earnings and a lower number of diluted shares outstanding due to the Companys share repurchases during 2014. Weighted average diluted shares outstanding were 13.3 million as