Qualified Professional Asset Manager (QPAM) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Qualified Professional Asset Manager?A qualified professional asset manager is a designation for a registered investment advisors who work with or manage retirement fund assets. QPAM status is an exemption from the restrictions that the Employee Retirement...

Forward Dividend Yield – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Forward Dividend Yield?The Forward Dividend Yield is a projection or estimate or the company’s annual dividend as a percentage of its existing stock price. The most recent dividend payment is used to measure and annualize the projected dividend of the...

Qualified Lead (Sales) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Sales

What is a Qualified Lead?A qualified lead or a sales qualified lead is a potential customer who has been identified through marketing efforts undertaken by the marketing team. This individual is generally someone who has somehow responded to marketing efforts and has...

Quality Score (Web Marketing) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | SEO, Social Media, Direct Marketing

What is a Quality Score in Web Marketing?Quality score is a rating for how Google measures the usefulness or relevance of your Pay-Per-Click advertisement on Googles search platform. Generally, the usefulness and relevance of your ad to those searching a particular...

Quality Management System (QMS) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management

What is a QMS (Quality Management System)?A quality management system consists of a number of processes aimed at efficient and accurate delivery of a value proposition to a customer, client, or end-user. The objective is to meet customer expectations and achieve...

QR Code – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management

What is a QR Code?A Quick Response (QR) Code is very similar to a traditional bar code. It is a printed digital image that can be read by a special code reader. The code is designed to store information. The actual code is made up of white squares with a black grid or...

CEO Confidence Survey – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is the CEO Confidence Survey?The CEO Confidence Survey is a monthly survey of 100 executives from across the United States. Who Conducts the CEO Confidence Survey?The Conference Council, a global business membership and research association working in the public...

Humphrey Hawkins Act – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is the Humphrey-Hawkins Act?The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, more formally known as The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, was passed in 1978 to amend the Employment Act of 1946. The purpose of the act was to give clarifying instructions on the use...

Hulbert Financial Digest – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is the Hulbert Financial Digest?The Hulbert Financial Digest was a newsletter that tracked the market performance of other investment newsletters (assuming a hypothetical investor followed each one to the letter). Interestingly, the long-term findings of this...

Herzburg’s Two-Factor Theory (Hygiene Theory) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior

What is Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory?The Herzburg two-factor theory, also known as the Hygiene Theory, posits that job satisfaction and dissatisfaction are not opposites. Rather, certain factors must be present to avoid dissatisfaction. Other factors must be...