The Trends of Travel and Expense

In the business most of the people didn't really know that the expense management played a big part in the any kind of businesses. We reached out to finance professionals from all over North America from all sized organizations and asked them a few basic questions of their current expense management processes as well as their future plans for managing spend within their organization. After receiving responses from over 165 companies, we were able to analyze the data and produce this years, “Travel & Expense Management Trends for 2013”. The data explores expense management practices from an overall standpoint as well as dives deeper into the results to provide insight for small business, mid-sized business and enterprise level organization.

Although, we did received responses from all sized companies, a large majority (35% of all responses) came from enterprise level organizations, those with 1,000 employees or more.

Key Takeaways The key difference between expense management processes of small business and enterprise organizations.

Travel & Expense Management Trends for 2013 from Ashley Emery

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Email Marketing Effectiveness is Losing?

Email marketing is, as the name suggests, is the use of email in marketing communications. Email marketing is still very popular because sending email is much cheaper than most other forms of communication. It lets you deliver your message to the people . Email marketing has proven very successful for those who do it right. Is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience.

Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic. And is a technique used by marketing professionals that are looking to make contact with companies and individual prospect alike that have met their special parameters. Email marketing is still one of the most cost effective ways to contact prospects and customers. It is still one of the most powerful marketing tools available to businesses of all types and sizes.

Email marketing is about developing a relationship with your recipients. While is one of the easiest, most convenient ways to market your company, and products. Email marketing is not expensive, is an affordable way to stretch a tight marketing budget. Email marketing is very effective which enables you to proactively communicate with your existing customers and prospects instead of passively waiting for them to return to your Web site. Email promotion is inexpensive, extremely effective and very easy to do. And still a very effective way to generate traffic to your website and more sales.

Email campaign is most effective when the recipients are targeted and the information is relevant and timely. Is more cost-effective and achieves results faster than traditional direct mail marketing. Most importantly, email marketing is twice as effective as traditional direct mail in getting a response from the targeted audience. Is an easy, affordable, and effective online marketing tactic that allows you to open up dialogue with your customers so that you can send personalized more relevant communications which your customers want to receive.

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Business Travels Numbers in 2013 are lagging in Expectation

If you are a part of the big business company one of the things that the part of your work I’m sure travel is the part of it. In the world of the business travel expense management is always the part of it and most of the business people are taking it in the hard way.

Based in the research of Chicago Business Journal, the number of commercial flights is currently declining, not rising, as many industry experts tend to expect. Airline ticket sales have remained fairly stagnant in recent years, and because planes have become larger and more densely packed with small economy-class seats, that means fewer planes. What's causing the decline in air travel? There are many factors to consider, but here are three big ones.

Economic reasons Brancatelli cites the price of crude oil as an example. In 2000, one barrel went for around $25 - that price has since ballooned to just under $100, and since energy costs account for about 40 percent of an airline's budget, the industry has no choice but to adjust. That means fewer planes.

Security concerns Since 9/11, there has been a reluctance to fly planes unless absolutely necessary. Robert Herbst, an independent airline analyst, told the Los Angeles Times that the 10 largest American airlines lost an estimated $29 billion between 2001 and the first six months of 2011.

The internet Companies are looking to cut costs, and one way to do so is meeting with colleagues via video conferencing instead of flying to meet them in person. BizTech magazine reports that almost 50 percent of all information workers will have personal video solutions in place by 2016. The industry is growing 150 percent annually.

Airline travel is enduring lean times, which should mean for a somewhat lessened burden of travel expense management. But software solutions are still a useful way to manage the expenses that remain.

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