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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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are made to order, with select products available for purchase at retailers like Target and Sephora. Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Hims & Hers offers prescriptions from hair-loss medication to birth control pills to antidepressants—in all 50 states. Health & Wellness Hims & Hers Health Inc.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Unfortunately, the entire experience was spoiled by an incident at a popular breakfast restaurant. After visiting a specialist, taking medication and undergoing hours of electrostimulation, I learned it was all stress-related. It was a short trip, and I was looking forward to visiting the “Live Entertainment Capital of The World.”

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12 Essential Tips Every Solo Traveler Needs to Know

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Leave room for visiting cafes or restaurants, exploring an unexpected shop, or meeting new people you want to spend time with. Going with a group often means you get more in-depth knowledge than trying to tour historic sites alone, and tour guides usually have suggestions for other local sites or restaurants worth checking out.

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Green Living, Green Wallet

Eco-Office Gals

There is little nutritional value in such a meal, and the footprint associated with the waste of each individually wrapped item, and the process of making that food in a plant somewhere, shipping it to the restaurant, and preparing it for you is considerable. Yet it would be healthier, more affordable and far more eco-friendly to eat at home.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

If you have to purchase stuff for your boss - ask to xerox the credit card, both front and back now. Does your boss have allergies, special diet needs, medications (like epinephrine for bee stings?) Are there favorites of anything your boss likes - their coffee, restaurants, cafeteria lunch food, etc?

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

I know I am dating myself with this ad, but advertising does influence our decisions on what we purchase. I still get some flyers by regular mail and I do still appreciate them when it is a menu from a fast-food restaurant, money-back coupons or notices of courses in my area, but otherwise I throw them in the recycle bin.

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