The advice from business travel agents is to plan as far in advance as possible.
Consumers and business purchasing agents can now easily compare prices of products and services proffered by merchants and suppliers and apply pressure for more efficiency and lower costs.
Mr. Lieto, the New York businessman, discovered the frustrations an innocent party can face as he worked for months to keep open his check-cashing business after federal agents seized his firm's working capital.
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Former friends, business colleagues and FBI agents are slated to testify against Rajaratnam in court.
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It lumps together investment banking, a high-tech and pretty high-skill business, with estate agents, where knaves with badly written brochures still prosper.
There is a great opportunity for agents to provide business services to self-published authors.
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The popularity of booking travel online has already driven many bricks-and-mortar travel agents out of business.
Some life-insurance agents quit the business, and many who remained moved up-market in search of bigger commissions.
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Travel agents report booming business from Bulgarian tourists who want to visit the restaurants, villas and tryst spots frequented by the star-crossed duo.
Previously the company axed higher-risk auto insurance, ditched most non-North American insurance business and converted employee-agents into independent contractors responsible for their own benefits.
Robert, 26, put together a business plan and showed it to agents and others knowledgeable about the market.
Real estate agents who take the business of brokering rentals are uncommon.
Under federal law, it is illegal for lenders to pay kickbacks to real estate agents who steer them business, Guttentag said, but he said virtually no effort is put into enforcing this rule.
For years, CPAs have been referring business to financial planners and insurance agents, and in the past ten years there has been a trend to bring those professionals in-house instead of referring this business away from their firms.
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Those who plan to use the car for business purposes (lawyers, doctors and real estate agents, for example) can now do so if 70% of miles are driven for business purposes rather than the former rate of 80%.
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Baitz, Levine said, taught him about the business side of writing and dealing with agents.
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Agents routinely complain about the business of recruiting of college football players.
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And if agents want to expand their business, taking self-published authors on board and providing them with key services is a good place to start.
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The IMF and the World Bank are seen by the protesters as important agents of capitalism and big business, forcing their message on developing countries.
Some business owners in Princeton have said FBI agents in recent weeks have been showing a picture to locals of a man who resembles Hatfill.
Smart real estate people deputized mortgage reps hungry for referral opportunities, to shoulder this function, leaving real estate agents to focus on the business of selling real estate.
In my business I also have a team of agents.
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Agents can also share their Mobile Business Cards wirelessly with Near Field Communication (NFC) using Vizibility's plastic Mobile Wallet Card.
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They left the business side of their work to publishers and agents.
An entrepreneur with a mission, Seth is a long-time member of Net Impact, the network that is revolutionizing the business world with over 40, 000 change agents committed to social responsibility.
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The site, which was developed by the Business Travel Coalition, American Society of Travel Agents and Consumer Travel Alliance, invites travelers to share stories about surprise fees and sign a petition protesting them.
The Justice Department sent a letter Friday to AMI, reassuring the company that federal agents will not be going through business records or computer files and have no intention of compromising the company's journalistic work or sources.
American Airlines, owned by parent AMR Corporation, has picked up an antitrust battle against Sabre Holdings, a global distribution system that provides flight data to third-party ticket agents and websites, saying its business practices are anti-competitive and not in the interest of the consumer.
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Zakos is the chief developer of MyCybertwin, the virtual agents geared towards the small-medium business market.
CINF, which was started by independent insurance agents, has an agent-centered business model.
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