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These Asian American Entrepreneurs Celebrate Their Chinese Heritage While Feeding America’s Appetite for Chinese Street Food

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Jen Liao and Caleb Wang are second-generation Chinese Americans, and the husband and wife team first opened Xiao Chi Jie (XCJ) as a single restaurant serving Chinese street food in Seattle’s Bellevue neighborhood in 2018. XCJ’s branding is cheeky and modern, with a fun social media presence and earnest customer service.

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3 Tricks to Scoring That Sale

Success

The customer’s inability to make the trade-offs necessary for consensus is, in part, why so many deals fail to close and why so many companies limp along, never solving their biggest challenges. How to help a customer build a consensus Leaders and managers know that consensus increases an initiative’s chance of success.

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Can Starkey’s Latest Hearing Aid Technology Save Conversation?

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When we were at a restaurant, she would nod as we were telling a story, but I could tell she couldn’t really hear what we were saying. They are often held in meeting rooms or restaurants with a high level of background noise. after every sentence or two that I, my husband or my daughter spoke. It was frustrating for all of us.

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Tips for the Tourist in All of Us: The Savvy Admin’s Guide to Travel!

Office Dynamics

Taxi: Your choice should depend on the city you are traveling to, the distance you will be going from the airport to the hotel, and any other local traveling you will be doing—such as going from a hotel to a restaurant; plus the time of your arrival (are you arriving after dark and traveling alone?). It takes being proactive and organized.

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The Rise of Coworking and the Variable Cost Economy

Small Business Labs

The article closes with a description of the move from fixed cost business models to variable cost ones: This is starting to look a lot like other outsourcing trajectories, whether it’s manufacturing, customer service, or IT. The shift to variable costs continues to be a megatrend.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

Success

Upon being told the restaurant didn’t offer such a meal, she explained that her husband was in stage four cancer and had lost his appetite—except that he now craved a meatball sandwich. A fabulous story like that shows what great customer service looks like, and it could be used for all kinds of reputation-building,” he says.

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Is Your “Lack of Remarkable” Preventing Customer Loyalty?

Customers Rock!

Measuring your customers’ feedback and acting on any inconsistencies (both good and bad) should be how you approach your business every day! Recently, I attended a sports themed restaurant to watch the World Cup match between England and the United States. She remained pleasant, yet incredibly busy. Flickr Photo Credit: ogimogi ).