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How to negotiate the buying price of a home after inspection

When you buy a house, a home inspection is highly recommended. You aren’t just buying a high-end kitchen, or cozy family room with a fieldstone fireplace, you are also buying any problems lurking behind the walls. The home inspector will look at structural issues and other potential problems that could make the home a bad investment. After the inspection is completed, you usually have about 10 days to pull out of the sale.

Increase your donation dollars with payment options

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With the popularity and ease, it’s no surprise that online fundraising raises millions of dollars in charitable giving for the nonprofit industry every year. To increase your donations, it’s important to provide your donors a variety of ways they can help support your organization.

Taking advantage of every donation opportunity is an important priority for any nonprofit organization. If you’re planning to grow your donation growth for the next fiscal year, here are five tips that may help.

The benefits of the Passbook Savings Account and why your child should have one

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Are you reading this and wondering when was the last time you didn’t manage your bank account from a computer or your smartphone? If so, you may have never heard of a Passbook Savings Account. They aren’t as popular as they once were, so don’t worry if you have no clue what they are, but these retro accounts still have some great advantages, especially for children.

Non-Profits: Setting expectations with your Board of Directors

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You’ve been asked to sit on a Non-Profit Board of Directors – but do you really know what that entails? Did the Executive Director set some clear expectations with you? If the answer to both of those questions is “No” – you aren’t alone.

Non-profit CEOs and Executive teams often struggle with board members either not meshing with their culture/core values or the most popular complaint is “They just aren’t active”.

How Digital Marketing changed the B2B Customer Experience

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It’s the great debate: Has the use of Digital Marketing such as email, texting, and social media changed the customer experience for the worse or for the better?

For the most part, we are in “Camp Better”.

Municipal Money Market Accounts – why they make sense

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If you’ve ever been a part of a Municipal government – in leadership, city council, Board of Ed or a finance committee you will completely understand how daunting money management can be. Not only are you dealing with budgets and all the pressure that goes along with creating the right one, hoping it gets approved and makes everyone happy (or the majority at least), but you also need to make sound decisions when it comes to your investments and portfolio management.

What Type of Mortgage is right for you?

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When it comes to buying a home, most people know there are a few different mortgage options to choose from, but many don’t understand that there are actually quite a few options that vary depending on your situation. Once you’ve taken care of the homework – setting a budget, figuring out a down payment, and reviewing your credit, you’ll have a better idea of what loan works best for your needs.

Health Care Marketing – What Works Best?

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It’s not news to anyone living in the U.S. that our health care system is changing, evolving, and moving at lightning speed. With rampant consolidations, rise in consumer health care costs, and the emergence of MedTech and online doctors – how do health care providers keep the customers they have and woo new ones?

Identifying Phishers, Scammers and the “Alleged Debt Collectors”

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Hackers and scammers have honed their craft to the level that even the savviest become victims. From spoofed email accounts from well-known banks and credit card institutions alerting individuals their account has been compromised to robo-phone dialers with local numbers who appear to know quite a bit about you – the situation with ID theft and social engineering is only going to get worse.

On Time Delivery Tracking and the Manufacturing Supply Chain

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When it comes to getting product to your customers there are two very important factors – Quality and On Time Delivery (OTD). Your customers want to know that they are getting the product as promised and in the time frame that they need it.