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Entrepreneurs depend on brand outreach to grow their small businesses. From social media and email marketing to web design and print advertisements, small businesses must cast a wide net to acquire new customers. But all of that is for naught if you don’t have visually engaging campaigns, which requires time and money. Free stock images just don’t cut it when it comes to creating solid, compelling marketing materials. If you need high-quality, commercial-ready design assets and stock photography, check out JumpStory™ Authentic Stock Photography.

Sure, JumpStory™ gives entrepreneurs and marketers access to high-quality imagery, but

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At the time of writing, the total number of Covid-19 cases has crossed the 39-lakh mark globally and 56,000 in India. Expenses for the treatment of this disease can run high, especially if a person has to be hospitalised for a prolonged period or needs to be admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU). Factors like rising incidence of lifestyle diseases and high health care inflation have already sensitised educated Indians towards the need to buy adequate health insurance for themselves and their family.


With the onset of this pandemic, policyholders should now take the next crucial step of understanding how to go about filing a health insurance claim. This will help them avoid last-minute hassles at the time of admission into a hospital, when they are likely to be burdened by worries about the health of a near one and want treatment to start at

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You’re sitting at your desk after a day of rejections from potential clients. How can you make this next call the one that really counts? Good news: in recent years, research has found that emotional intelligence (EI) is a key factor for success in business — this includes sales.

In sales, EI can be defined as a salesperson’s ability to “sense, understand and effectively apply the power of their own emotions during interactions with buyers.” In other words, EI is your ability to connect well with buyers on a more personal level.

Several researchers actually consider EI to be more important to success at work than IQ. Even a salesperson with an IQ of 180 won’t make a sale without meaningfully calling upon the powers of empathy and intuition. And the best news of all?

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When Sandeep Bakshi took charge as the MD & CEO of ICICI Bank in October 2018, the bank was in a volatile state. Yet, he guided the bank to a quick turnaround and delivered the goods. Now, against the backdrop of Covid-19 pandemic, it seems that the bank’s growth story will take a pause as the management has changed its outlook from optimistically cautious to extremely cautious in March quarter (Q4). While the change in stance is good in the current situation, it will have an impact on financials.


Unlike its private peers, ICICI Bank is also more watchful of the emerging situation as compared to peers. HDFC Bank and Axis Bank, for instance, said they would aim to maintain market-leading/decent growth.


ICICI Bank provided Rs 2,725 crore for likely asset quality disruption due to Covid-19. This took the provisioning cost higher to Rs 5,967 crore,

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