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Winning Clients, Delivering Value, Part 2: Be the Business Asset They’ve Been Looking For

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Winning Clients, Delivering Value, Part 1: Boost Credibility While Saving Time

The “Winning Clients, Delivering Value” blog series is based on our latest free…


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Ace Your Sales and Marketing with Industry Intelligence: Sustaining Enduring Relationships

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Industry Intelligence Summer Concert Blog Series: LANY Shows Us a Few New Tricks

The hits keep on coming with Vertical IQ’s Industry Intelligence Summer Concert…


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Five Ingredients for Sales Success in 2021

By nearly anyone’s standards, 2020 was a doozy. The world struggled to manage a…


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Now More Than Ever, Industry Intelligence Is A “Must Have”

Today, it is more critical than ever to have access to Industry Intelligence so…


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A Closer Look at Veteran-Owned Businesses

According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business…


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Let the Shopping Season Begin: Internet, TV & Mail-Order Retailers

You know the big guys — Amazon, eBay, QVC, L.L. Bean — but there are a lot more…


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I’d Like to Live in a Fisher-Price Town

2020 has been a year packed full of crazy, and this week’s elections are likely to…


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4 Ways to Use Industry Intelligence to Grow Your Accounting Firm

Remember those commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups where the actors would…


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Use Industry Intelligence to Take Less and Give More

This is the fifth and final post in a series of five blog posts about how to create…


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When Success Requires Shape-Shifting: Lakeland Bank’s Story

Sitting outside on my deck this morning, I caught sight of a small lizard zooming…


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Keep it Real: Initiating More Meaningful Client Conversations

This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts about how to create and implement…


Using a Strategic Mindset to Build Trust with Clients and Prospects

This is the first in a series of five blog posts about how to create and implement…


Why SMBs are Switching Banks & What You Can Do to Stop Them

2020 has been one of the toughest years for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs)…


Overcoming Hurdles: How Business Bankers Can Meet Customers Where They Are

With the economic peril caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, every small and…


Advising Customers & Prospects Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of people’s…


Using the 10-Second Rule to Improve Your Client Meetings

You’ve heard of the 5-second rule, whereby food that has been dropped may be eaten…


Help Clients Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Their Industry

It’s the topic on nearly everyone’s mind right now: coronavirus (COVID-19). And…