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2 months ago | 
tbbwmag.com | David Phelps |Jo-Lynn Brown |Amanda Webster
3 Things You Need to Know About Business Funding in 2025As we head into 2025 with a clean slate and renewed optimism, it’s critical to ensure your business is running on all cylinders, and that means ensuring you have adequate funding in place. But at the same time, it’s also critical to understand the state of the economy and how to adapt your financial strategies to thrive in it.
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2 months ago | 
tbbwmag.com | Amanda Webster |Jo-Lynn Brown |David Phelps
Last night, while speaking about getting funding to a group of entrepreneurs at a mastermind event, a young guy came up to me and I could see that he was clearly bothered about something. He nervously waited around, fidgeting the entire time until eventually, everyone else had left. I knew there was, what he thought, an awkward question coming. Don’t worry—I’m not claiming to be psychic or anything. I’ve just seen this often enough to notice the pattern. It’s second nature at this point.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | David Phelps |Jo-Lynn Brown |Kiran Malik-Khan
By Taylor Ranker, founder and CEO of QuestmontRemember the “circle of vultures” from the last article? Well now, let’s discuss their modus operandi. Try to envision a tiger, or possibly a leopard, quietly crouching and preparing to “pounce on” and devour its prey. Do you really think it is possible they have the prey’s best interest in mind? No, they are simply hungry, looking to devour and move on to the next victim.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | David Phelps |Amanda Webster |J.C. Barrott |Jo-Lynn Brown
The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion roughly every 100 days right now, which now stands at nearly $35.8 trillion as of 10/22/2024. To make matters worse, the Treasury has also drawn down its cash balance by $72 billion putting it over $275 billion in the red. The report spread like wildfire, especially throughout the financial and entrepreneurial communities.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | Jim Marshall |Lucinda Honeycutt |Debbie Lundberg |David Phelps
If you’re in sales and new business development, you know that your job consists of three primary functions: selling (including presenting your solution to a prospective customer or client, then closing for a commitment), servicing the account once you’ve closed it and prospecting for new opportunities. By far, the activity that many sellers find most distasteful – and will often go to great lengths to avoid – is prospecting for new business.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | Jim Marshall |Debbie Lundberg |Joelle Paban |David Phelps
So, here we are in August – what some people refer to as the “dog days of summer.” Temperatures and humidity are through the roof, many of your clients, customers and prospects are on vacation and those deals you thought were going to close in June or July just haven’t happened. This time of year a typical business development progression for many sellers looks something like this:The first half of the year finishes strong, with sales at or ahead of projection.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | Jo-Lynn Brown |Lucinda Honeycutt |Megan Kostner |David Phelps
Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) has appointed Val Perez as the market president for Southwest Florida to oversee commercial banking for Truist. Perez enters the role with more than 35 years of banking experience across retail and commercial banking teams. He has held roles leading customer experience, sales strategy, small business and commercial teams at numerous regional banks.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | J.C. Barrott |Megan Kostner |Jo-Lynn Brown |David Phelps
The Tampa Bay Rays came to a multi-year partnership agreement with Amerant Bank to make it the official bank of the team. The partnership includes the presence of the Amerant Bank brand in numerous locations inside the stadium and during gameday radio broadcasts. Also included in the agreement are numerous hospitality opportunities, use of the Rays Trademark for promotional purposes and select advertising placements, in digital and print.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | Jim Marshall |Joelle Paban |David Phelps |Debbie Lundberg
(Reader Alert: This article is about golf; if you are not a fan or a participant – or have little patience for those who are – please feel free to turn the page.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
tbbwmag.com | Jo-Lynn Brown |Megan Kostner |David Phelps |J.C. Barrott
TD Bank has added Anthony Carter, a former chief diversity officer for Johnson & Johnson, to its Community Advisory Board. “I’m honored, and excited, to serve as a member of TD Bank’s Community Advisory Board. I look forward to working with TD Bank’s visionary, and extraordinary, leaders as well as a team of prominent national champions who have a shared purpose in eradicating financial inequities in diverse and at-risk communities across our country,” said Carter, in a statement from TD Bank.
