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This is just like the inspirational quote post, but with business terms. All you need is a word related to anything having to do with business and its definition or meaning. Feel free to grab words and their meanings from business dictionaries or just give your own interpretation.

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Accounts Receivable - amounts due the company on account from customers who have bought merchandise or received services.

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Permalink Reply by nimi k on November 13, 2008 at 2:38am: Floating rate: an interest rate that is not fixed and which changes according to fluctuations in the market; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by nimi k on November 13, 2008 at 2:38am: Fulfillment: the process of responding to customer inquiries, orders, or sales promotion offers.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by nimi k on November 13, 2008 at 2:38am: Futures market: a market for buying and selling securities, commodities, or currencies that tend to fluctuate in price over a period of time. The market's aim is to reduce the risk of uncertainty about future prices.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Karen S. Taylor on November 13, 2008 at 6:33am: Redirect or Redirection - Used in affiliate marketing to mask a long and ugly affiliate URL and to prevent sales theft, a "redirect" is a URL that when clicked, sends the visitor to a different URL (web address).

Here's a quick "Why?": http://www.addme.com/newsletters/issue240.htm

Here's a quick "How?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05CbfiUCAbU

Here's a much more thorough explanation of the many uses of redirections, with example code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by cybernegocios2008 on November 13, 2008 at 8:02am: very nice system; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by frankkallon on November 13, 2008 at 8:49am: gov palin she needs to under America foreign policy and also she needs understand that US Ecomony is a comsumer base. Small business need tax breaks and Captial to move forward. Its people with dreams and goals move this country,; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Linda Vorves Pastor on November 13, 2008 at 1:31pm: Multi-level marketing (MLM) also known as Network or Relationship Marketing: is a highly successful business-distribution model that allows a parent company to market its products directly to consumers by means of direct selling.

Independent, unsalaried salespeople of these multi-level marketing companies are referred to as distributors (or associates, independent business owners, dealers, franchise owners, sales consultants, consultants, independent agents, etc.). They represent the parent company and are awarded a commission based upon the volume of product sold through each of their independent businesses (organizations) on the Internet or in person.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carole Nantel on November 13, 2008 at 1:45pm: Marketing - The science of profitably providing services and/or products satisfying the needs of a target market; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carole Nantel on November 13, 2008 at 1:50pm: MANAGEMENT BUY OUT - An acquisition where the company’s management is the buying party; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paris E. Tompkins on November 13, 2008 at 5:28pm: ebitda: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, calculated by taking operating income and adding back depreciation and/or amortization.

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Permalink Reply by Paris E. Tompkins on November 13, 2008 at 5:43pm: Financial statement analysis: Method used by interested parties such as investors, creditors, and management to evaluate the past, current, and projected conditions and performance of the firm.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paris E. Tompkins on November 13, 2008 at 5:45pm: Capitalism: Economic system in which (1) private ownership of property exists; (2) aggregates of property or capital provide income for the individuals or firms that accumulated it and own it; (3) individuals and firms are relatively free to compete with others for their own economic gain; (4) the profit motive is basic to economic life.; ▶ Reply to This