An index of small business indicators jumped by nearly 1 point in November, but the 92.5 reading shows that business owners are still hesitant to expand, according to the National Federation for Independent Business. November’s 0.9 point increase in NFIB’s monthly index followed a 2.3 point drop in October. The index...
Read moreCord Moving and Storage, U.S. Transportation Secretary and Texas Officials Stress Vigilance The American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA) joined other public- and private-sector organizations today at a Houston news conference to help educate consumers about the simple steps they can take to avoid moving fraud, as National Moving...
Read more“What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” Jeff Bezos: Founder, president, and CEO of Amazon.com You ask people to buy from you so you can feed your family, not your ego! That may seem harsh. However, there is great truth in that statement. Here’s why. If you are worried that hearing...
Read moreAMSA President and CEO Linda Bauer Darr testifies before the US Senate Commerce Committee on fighting rogue movers and improving consumer protection. The hearings were held today September 20th at the Russell Senate Office Building 235 Washington, D.C. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will held...
Read moreThe Markets of Saint Louis Missouri and Memphis Tennessee continue to be resilient housing markets as they continued to show signs of recovery in March, as buyers chased discounted prices and posted the eighth consecutive month of single-family home sale increases. Cord Moving and Storage watch these trends carefully since...
Read more“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life; because almost everything —all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving...
Read moreThe Memphis metro area’s foreclosure rate fell 50 percent in the first half of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. Gary Lee the General Manager of Cord Moving and Storage keeps a close eye on the housing market in Memphis, “since it has a direct impact on...
Read moreMany salespeople spend countless hours trying to improve the way they handle objections by those moving and those that are national accounts that move sometimes hundreds of employees. Schools of thought that range from high pressure tactics all the way to being able to demonstrate empathy to the client...
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