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Impractical Volume Discount Offers For One Family

While at an appliance store today I was waiting for my turn as I needed to ask a question on behalf of another person about a purchase. There was only one person working and he was in the midst of assisting someone else. As I waited you could hear how the customer wanted to buy

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Business

Pricing Services Higher or Lower For New Experiences

Imagine you ran a business where you offered some kind of service such as a photographer. You are used to doing your work in a studio and everything from the billing to client delivery is all streamlined. Then let’s pretend someone decided that they wanted to use you for an event that requires you to

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Premium Product Price Based On Location or Branding

While looking for some oranges to buy today there didn’t seem to be any Mandarin oranges and so I just looked at the available ones which were the Navel ones. The most expensive one appeared to be one that was labelled as farmer’s market which funny enough made me think it was say organic and

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Always Checking For Conflict of Interests

This was an interesting story I heard where there were residents in a building that were wondering why every year fees have been going up with so many repairs being required according to reports. As it would appear due to a majority rules type of system most people in the building never bothered to read

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Financial Management

Getting All Your Payments At Once Financial Management Motivation

Out of sheer coincidence today I actually received payments for various work I have done as well as depositing a GST rebate cheque. I was thinking too because as a teenager whenever I worked and the company issued cheques I would actually not deposit them right away. I would actually save up about a month’s

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Business

Having Late Payment Clauses and Fine Penalties

Today I got notification that a large company that I did some work for over a month ago has finally paid their invoice. It was a little surprising too as you don’t usually expect large corporations to fall behind in paying their suppliers and contractors. But what this made me think is how many times

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