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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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If you’re a chief marketing officer (CMO), the current economic uncertainty undoubtedly creates anxiety for you, your team, and your agencies. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. And it’s a critical need.

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Nonprofit Accounting Basics for Founders, Board Members & Executives

The Charity CFO

So you can understand what’s happening in your business and communicate effectively with your board members, donors, and financial team. You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). It’s a necessity. Start right here (??)

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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I could go back and tell a story that I was a double major in economics and sociology, and financial planning was a perfect fit. It helped build my communication skills and my knowledge, because when you’re the one in the meeting saying the things, you’ve really got to own that information. Natalie: Right. Michael: Right?

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” It’s constant communication through the year. I think the industry likes to tell a story that one of the big drivers from insurance and brokerage firms to RIAs is essentially the economics of it. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.”

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

Barry Ritholtz

You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. It’s much deeper than math. That’s virtually every money book. RITHOLTZ: Buzzkill.

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Finding Rollover Opportunities In Transitions After Layoffs

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So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. Michael: So where do you think about setting that threshold just relative to your business and economics? So we’ve built in what we want, the communication, and depending on the advisor.