On my visits across the country, I’ve heard the challenges some members have shared about their cooperative efforts with companies they represent. I’ve listened carefully and have heard some common themes. We are being asked to take on more work for the s
People are often asked to serve in a volunteer capacity as board members on non-profits, school PTA organizations and booster clubs, church boards and civic organizations, or they may serve as scouting leaders, athletic coaches, volunteer firefighter or i
Living in Washington, D.C. has its advantages: a large number of free museums, direction-seeking tourists who are fun to mislead and the sense of community that comes from being stuck on the beltway (also known as I-495) during rush-hour traffic. The o
Real Time—referred to in the past as “SEMCI” (Single Entry Multiple Company Interface)—has been a goal within the industry for almost 30 years now…
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The current ISO PAP excludes the use of an auto as a public or livery conveyance. Older ISO versions excluded transporting property for a fee. However, some company forms exclude “delivery.” Depending on the precise wording of the exclusion and the inter
Training CSRs to service — and sell — can mean more revenue.
Large budgets are set aside in many organizations for the purpose of designing creative advertising campaigns and exquisite packaging that make enthusiastic and seductive promises of the benefits and value of purchasing the company’s products and/or servi
Last month, Reps. David Scott (D-GA) and Geoff Davis (R-KY) introduced H.R.5611, the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB)Reform Act, commonly known as NARAB II. The introduction of this bipartisan legislation by Reps. Scott and Da
Death be not proud, nor pretty. My parrot, Mr. Peepers, passed gas then passed away, somersaulting off the swinging perch and sticking his final landing atop the comics lining the bottom of his cage—on Garfield no less. I stared in disbelief at the cag