Day: September 23, 2020

How to Compile Business Cards | Small Business

By Elroy Mariano 1 month ago

Your business card is an inexpensive but potentially powerful tool in your marketing arsenal. After making the effort to reach out to clients, what impression do you wish to convey? What information do you want to leave in their hands to remember you by? How do you want them to follow up after the initial meeting? Addressing these questions as you build your card will result in a well-designed business card that will continually market you and your company.

Choose a Design

The design of your business card should be appropriate to your business. If you are in a traditionally conservative industry, such as law or banking, stick with conservative themes in your design. Use muted colors, include your company logo and stay with traditional fonts. If you are in a more creative industry, such as entertainment or fashion, branch out in your design choices. Brighter colors are acceptable in

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Oil Has Best Week Since June After Saudis Defend Market Recovery

By Elroy Mariano 1 month ago

TipRanks

Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by at Least 50%

Is it time for the bears to break out the champagne glasses? Not so fast, says Goldman Sachs. Volatility has ruled the Street for the last few weeks, leading some to conclude that those with a more pessimistic outlook had been vindicated, but the firm believes stocks can still climb higher.According to Goldman Sachs’ head of U.S. equity strategy, David Kostin, the S&P 500 could still hit 3,600 by the end of the year, and 3,800 by mid-2021, on the back of vaccine-related optimism and progress with the economic reopening. This would reflect gains of 10% and 16%, respectively, should the index ultimately reach these targets.“Despite the sharp sell-off in the past week, we remain optimistic about the path of the U.S. equity market in coming months. The Superforecaster probability of a mass-distributed vaccine by Q1

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EFG Companies Safeguards Dealers’ Reinsurance Positions and Saves More Than $100,000 Annually Through Formal Fraud Detection Protocols – Compliance

By Elroy Mariano 1 month ago

The multi-point program includes real-time call and repair order monitoring and auditing, in-depth training, proprietary claims system lockdown protocol, and cutting-edge virtual claims inspections. - IMAGE: EFG Companies

The multi-point program includes real-time call and repair order monitoring and auditing, in-depth training, proprietary claims system lockdown protocol, and cutting-edge virtual claims inspections.

IMAGE: EFG Companies

DALLAS – EFG Companies, the innovator behind the award-winning Hyundai Assurance program, has bolstered its formal fraud detection program for retail automotive dealers, creating significant roadblocks against fraud and theft while protecting dealer reinsurance positions. The multi-point program includes real-time call and repair order monitoring and auditing, in-depth training, proprietary claims system lockdown protocol, and cutting-edge virtual claims inspections, designed to save the dealership more than $100,000 annually in fraud and claims savings. 

Our dedication to quality customer service is the reason we are able to better safeguard our clients’ reinsurance positions.

According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, fraud accounts for up to 10 percent of claims costs for U.S. insurers, with 32 percent of insurers saying fraud was as high as

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If you got some extra money, what would you do with it? Many people say it depends how much extra it is

By Elroy Mariano 1 month ago

What would you do with an extra $100 a week — save it, spend it, or a bit of both?

What about if that $100 became an extra $500 a week?

In the countdown to the federal budget, we asked our Facebook Messenger subscribers how they’d use some hypothetical extra cash after a tough 2020.

Readers had some very different ideas of how they’d spend extra money if they had it — and how the choice would change depending how much extra they got.

See which category you fit into.

Save the $100, spend the $500

If I had an extra hundred dollars a week, I would put it directly into savings! Then we’d finally have some. An extra $500 a week? I’d treat my family to takeaway more than once a fortnight and I’d save the rest – we are single income with three children, and houses don’t get

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