Referly is a shopping site that uses social networking and offers rewards to people who recommend products.
They believe their financial advisor will recommend products that are best for them, not that are most lucrative to the adviser.
But your current and potential customers do, and may well be talking about you ( 53 percent of individuals with a Twitter account recommend products or services in their tweets) so be sure to listen in on those discussions and open a dialogue with your customers and potential customers.
For companies with strong reputations, 55% of consumers say they would definitely buy their products and 50% would be willing to recommend their products to others.
They're preliminary studies, and I think more supportive studies are needed before we can recommend such products.
The studies have not been conclusive and most dermatologists still recommend such products.
For example, it used LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube to reach financial advisors (the intermediaries that recommend its products) and their clients (the investors).
As a result, there may be an incentive to transact more often or recommend investment products that have higher commissions, trailers, or embedded fees.
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Cook didn't need to apologize over the Apple Maps turmoil, or magnanimously recommend competing map products, as he did, and maybe Jobs wouldn't have done it.
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Press them on whether they or their firm receive any other sources of compensation for the products they recommend.
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In practice most large firms have a short "panel" consisting of less than ten products they recommend in each category - pensions, ISAs, bonds etc.
They can recommend securities or other financial products that (for example) provide them with higher commissions.
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So given the environment, FINRA is particularly concerned about the suitability of the products registered representatives recommend to investors.
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Low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds will continue to grow in popularity as more investors shed high cost actively managed products and the advisers who recommend them.
So can representatives of travel products and services you can recommend and sell, either through a central company or in a home-based venture you may be able to start and run on your own.
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The AAP has advised pediatricians to recommend to their patients not to use these products and energy drinks, since they contain potentially high amounts of stimulants such as DMAA and caffeine, which can elevate the possibility for developing dehydration, palpitations or dangerous arrhythmias, or insomnia.
In a world with more choices and less clarity about what we should buy or how we should feel about products and services, what leads us to recommend, stay loyal to, purchase from, or give the benefit of doubt to certain companies?
While the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) recommend consuming three servings of fat free or low fat milk and milk products daily, the reality is that most Americans only consume about half of the recommended servings.
Absent eternal vigilance, powerful economic interests, aka Wall Street, can be counted on to both recommend and eventually succeed in selling, opaque, high-risk, high-fee products to the unsophisticated.
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