New technology will let you use your smartphone to get money out of an ATM without a debit card. And you can order your money up to 24 hours in advance. See this article about this new bank service in CNNMoney by Blake Ellis: http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/09/pf/cardless-atms/index.html Three banks, Wintrust, BMO Harris and City National Bank will be rolling this feature out across their ATMs by the end of 2014. I am already nervous about more wireless stuff messing up, but this is obviously the wave of the future. For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Signs You Suffer From a Financial Disorder
Do you have any symptons of this illness? See this posting in Yahoo Finance by Farnoosh Torabi for signs of the potential crisis: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/signs-you-suffer-from-a-financial-disorder-152702594.html If after reading this article and watching the video you experience itching or retching, either call your doctor or a financial advisor (or just watch football or a movie to get your mind off them.) For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Avoid the Three Biggest Sales Mistakes and Close More Business
Every sales lead is precious. It takes a lot to get people’s attention these days, and once a lead or prospect comes in your door, you’ve accomplished that hurdle, but now you have another one: getting the business. To ensure you can turn those prospects into paying customers as often as possible, here are three mistakes we can all learn from and avoid at the very beginning of the sales process. #1 Tech-Speak Every industry has its own vocabulary. For example, pool service companies talk about “shock,” booster pumps, and cyanuric acid levels. If the salesperson starts slinging too many of these words around, the new pool owner is going to freak out. Worse, you can end up going down a technical conversational path that derails the sale and has you answering all sorts of educational questions that the prospect doesn’t even need to know about if they hired you. It’s a sort of foxhole you don’t want to go down, at least not during a sales call, and especially not during the very first interaction with a prospect. Continuing our example, a pool owner’s goals are usually that they want their pool looking awesome and safe to swim in. [...]