For most advisers, the main source of business comes from referrals from existing clients.
Elsewhere I have written that one quarter of them use their homes as a source of business capital.
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Although Forbes has always been an important source of business information, the Federal government seemed out of place.
Large companies insure less, have more choice, and increasingly bypass the brokers that are Lloyd's only source of business.
Coke effectively controls them by maintaining big equity stakes and a heavy presence on their boards, and by providing their main source of business.
This knowledge, although a source of business income, is also public.
Only players have this bifurcation of playing for the love of the game yet being the source of business revenue for the owners and themselves.
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In Mr. Palmisano, Bloomberg has tapped a senior executive with strong ties to Bloomberg's clients on Wall Street, a large and longtime source of business to IBM.
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Importance of SBIR as a Vehicle for Early Stage Capital: Several entrepreneurs at the forum spoke of the advantages of the Small Business Investment Research program as a source of capital at the stage of business maturation when it is difficult to gain access to capital.
Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
Analyze the source of your business to see whether new customers are finding you via referrals, SEO, PR, Yelp, or some other gateways.
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Backers of Shariah-compliant finance see an opportunity for expansion amid the global economic downturn, and some Western banks are welcoming this growing source of new business.
One might argue that such risks are justified, because the SBA is an important source of small-business lending.
Remember, the biggest source of new startup business capital in the U.S. comes from entrepreneurs taking out mortgages on their houses.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
According to the National Federation of Independent Business, the data source of the study, there are 5.8 million small businesses across the country.
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Some of its supporters think the party too friendly to the Social Democrats and not friendly enough to the interests of small business, a traditional source of support.
Don't forget your existing customers -- the cheapest source of repeat and new business.
The largest source of expense for this business comes from the provision for losses that the bank sets aside for potential bad loans.
Core publishing business is an important source of free cash flow and has synergies with the local deals business.
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Thirty percent of the merchandise is provided by China, a cheap source of goods, but Girouard is wary of increasing business there for fear of being too dependent on suppliers from a single country.
It was actually a means of keeping the East India Tea Company in business by limiting the source of tea to the colonies.
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Having a commercial bank would boost Morgan Stanley's efforts to use its balance sheet to attract more investment banking business, bring it a cheap source of deposit gathering and also bring it a fund-processing business.
And natural search is a really powerful source of leads for almost any business.
But the city also demonstrates how gambling, as a business and source of revenue, tends to plateau.
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Most importantly, insurers have been able to use the funds as a free source of capital to underwrite new business.
It's a nifty way for a family long departed from its original source of wealth in the steel business to make pocket money.
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