Chauncey Crail
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About
Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience it facilitates. He remains most at home on a tractor, but has learned that opportunity is where he finds it and discomfort is more interesting than complacency.
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25 Employee Appreciation Ideas
Happy and engaged employees are more productive and less likely to leave a job in search of greener pastures—and no, we’re not just talking about the color of the grass. Employees will feel more valued when they know their employer...
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The Onboarding Process: A Step-By-Step Guide
New employee onboarding can be a complicated and time-consuming task for any human resources department. However, this process is incredibly important and can set the tone for long-term success for you and your employees. This step-by-step guide can help your...
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What Is Organizational Behavior?
Organizational behavior (OB) is the study of how individuals, groups, and organizations interact and influence one another. Though it is largely used within the field of business management as means to understand–and more effectively manage–groups of people. The reason businesses...
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How To Save Passwords On iPhone
Account creation with a username and password has become an inescapable part of online life. And keeping all of those passwords safe and memorized can be a pain without a little help. Fortunately, iOS comes with built-in password saving features...
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How To Do Payroll In QuickBooks
For small business owners who don’t want to spend all day doing the accounting, payroll’s a pain. It’s a necessary part of hiring and operating a business (unless you want particularly disgruntled employees and a truckload of lawsuits) but that...
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SAP Vs. Oracle ERP System Comparison
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a fully inclusive software system that can streamline every aspect of your business. ERP software, such as those from SAP and Oracle, can increase productivity by gathering the necessary data from numerous sources in one...
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How To Save Passwords On Chrome
It’s become increasingly common for users to need an account in order to access a website’s full range of content and services. Since each new account requires a unique username and password, it’s easy to become confused about all of...
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Top VPN Statistics And Trends
VPNs, or virtual private networks, have become indispensable tools in today’s internet-driven world and internet-fed culture. Used to secure and encrypt your IP address on public networks, VPNs protect your online activity from tracking and exploitation by internet predators. Initially...
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What Is Telematics? The Ultimate Guide
If you’ve stared at your phone watching a delivery driver icon slowly inch towards your house or received a delivery notification, you’ve seen telematics at work. Telematics provides companies and customers the ability to receive and view data about delivery...
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ELD Exemptions: Everything You Need To Know
While many aspects of trucking have remained the same for decades, the way that hours of service (HOS) are recorded has changed. The federal government’s ELD mandate now requires an electronic logging device (ELD) to be used in place of...
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What Is The ELD Mandate? Everything You Need To Know
Electronic logging devices (ELDs) have been increasingly used by truck drivers and carriers to record activity, and the federal government’s relatively recent ELD mandate makes this the new industry standard. With trucking as one of the most common occupations in...
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Bed Bath & Beyond Welcome Rewards Mastercard Review
Editor’s note: The Welcome Rewards™ Mastercard® is not currently available to new applicants. Please refer to your cardholder agreement or reach out to the issuer for current product information. We’re not getting out of bed for the Welcome Rewards™ Mastercard®,...
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How To Start An LLC In Illinois (Guide)
If you want to know how to get a limited liability company (LLC) in Illinois, you are not alone. LLCs are popular business entities. Formation of LLCs skyrocketed in the late 1990s after the IRS changed its rules, allowing LLC...
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How To Start An LLC In Pennsylvania (Guide)
The process of setting up a limited liability company (LLC) varies from state to state. Pennsylvania maintains its own specific set of steps to follow. For new business owners, setting up an LLC can get confusing, but with this helpful...
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How To Form An LLC In Georgia (Guide)
If you want to register a limited liability company (LLC) in Georgia, you’ll find it is relatively more affordable than some other states. Compare the $100 filing fee you’ll spend in the Peach State to the $500 you’ll pay in...
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Chase Preapproval And Pre-qualification: How To Get It
Credit card applications originating from this page will result in a hard credit inquiry. Please contact the issuer for preapproval or pre-qualification opportunities. Preapproval (sometimes referred to as “pre-qualified”) offers many benefits. It allows consumers to compare offers from different...
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5 Free Website Hosting Services
There are free website hosting services available, but all free plans have limitations. Customer support, storage, bandwidth and perks, such as free domain names, are usually lacking in free plans. Free web hosting can work for personal websites and blogs,...
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Morgan Stanley Blue Cash Preferred American Express Card Review 2025
The is an excellent card for Morgan Stanley customers looking to maximize above-average earnings on groceries, gas and transit. Although it’s marketed as exclusive to Morgan Stanley customers, the card's benefits are exactly the same as the (Terms apply, see...
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Payroll Outsourcing: The Ultimate Guide
The process of managing employee payroll is often time-consuming—unless, that is, another company is hired to take care of it instead. Payroll outsourcing can lead to big cost savings and provide access to payroll management experts, but doing so also...
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10 Essential HR Metrics
One of HR’s many functions is to act as an organization's eyes, looking both internally and externally for information and comparisons that are useful to bettering a business. Human resource metrics are like an essential pair of glasses—without them, workplace...
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Merrick Bank Double Your Line Secured Credit Card Review
The Merrick Bank Double Your Line® Secured Credit Card is no longer available to new applicants. Please see the issuer’s website for more information on available offers. Card details have been collected independently by Forbes Advisor and have not been...
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15 Effective Employee Retention Strategies
In the last year and a half, millions of employees from multiple sectors around the world have joined a mass exodus from the workplace. Many have tried explaining the mass exodus, but reports indicate it may be due to inadequate...
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What Is Employee Relations?
Employee relations is a hot-topic buzzword in business circles these days, and for good reason: the relationship between an employer and its employees is an integral part to the longevity of any successful company or organization. But for something so...
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Offboarding: Definition & Best Practices
Between December 2000 and February 2021, the U.S. average resignation rate had never surpassed 2.4% of the total workforce per month. In the first two months of 2022, the average rate nearly reached 3%, with some states seeing numbers average...
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How To Start A Travel Blog
If you’re passionate about traveling and want to share your experiences with the world, perhaps a travel blog is for you. But how do you start a travel blog? How do you make it stand out? We’ve put together a...
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Guide
Accounting principles help hold a company’s financial reporting to clear and regulated standards. In the United States, these standards are known as the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP or U.S. GAAP). Companies required to meet GAAP standards must do so...
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Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM): The Ultimate Guide
The most important aspect of any business—big or small—is often said to be the customer. But there’s more to business than closing a one-time sale or deal. Businesses prioritizing customer lifecycle management (CLM) can be significantly more successful when it...
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Sales Funnel Template And Examples
Shaped like a funnel to illustrate the journey from a wide mass of prospects to a select few actual customers, a sales funnel communicates to your team your business’s sales strategy. We’ve gathered a few examples and constructed a guide...
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OppFi Card Review
Editor’s Note: This card is not currently accepting new applications. The is among the most atrocious credit cards we’ve ever reviewed. Even among those whose credit leaves them with few other options, we’d still recommend exhausting those other options—both non-credit-card...
About
Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience it facilitates. He remains most at home on a tractor, but has learned that opportunity is where he finds it and discomfort is more interesting than complacency.
