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Technology that Makes Clients Smile

There are certain technological innovations which make me smile: sliced bread, air conditioning, remote control mini helicopters, etc. And one of the biggest smile-causing technological modernizations for me is in multi-bladed razors. Have you ever tried to shave with a one-or-two-bladed razor blade? It’s terrible. I have this bag of generic travel razors I bought [...]
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Share the ARM Industry love

The 3rd party collection industry recovered $54.9 billion in 2010. Imagine for a brief, scary moment what would’ve happened to our economy if those dollars weren’t put back into the economy. I read with pride a study commissioned by ACA International outlining the impact of 3rd party collection agencies on the U.S. economy in 2010. [...]
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If Time Is Money, Then Efficiency Is Profit.

This is a guest blog post from CDS Software. As we navigate the most impactful economic downturn the ARM industry has experienced, it’s important that efficiency be the ultimate litmus test for operational decisions. Efficiency-focused agencies realize increased productivity and greater profits. Developing an efficiency-focused culture requires a top down approach. Upper management needs to [...]
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60,000 hours, no wonder I’m a little tired.

According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, there’s a rule of thumb you can reference when determining whether or not you’re dealing with an expert: It’s called the 10,000 hour rule. The principle behind the 10,000 rule is that “greatness requires enormous amounts of time.” Ten thousand hours? Shoot, that was [...]
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Red or Russet?

This happens to me a lot.  I go to the grocery store to buy something, let’s say potatoes, and I forget if I was supposed to get red potatoes or russet potatoes. So I get out my handy dandy cell phone and call my wife’s cell phone, which obviously rings a few times and then [...]
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