The approach comes with a markup of 10 to 20 percent, which isn’t cheap, but the company helps customers lock in a ticket price early with a deposit and then pay back the cost of that ticket in a way that allows them to keep the cost manageable. Founder and CEO Ama Marfo, a native of Ghana, told the Chicago Tribune that she was inspired to start the business because of her own trouble getting tickets home when she was a student at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. MORE

The Price of the Coronavirus Pandemic (source: The New Yorker) April 13, 2020 – As April arrived, businesses, large and small, decided not to pay rent, either because they didn’t have the cash on hand or because, with a recession looming, they wanted to preserve what cash they had. About this list. I started this listing on February 20th, when there was still a question of whether or not conferences could still be held with the impending threat of the novel coronavirus. MORE

The Price of the Coronavirus Pandemic (source: The New Yorker) April 13, 2020 – As April arrived, businesses, large and small, decided not to pay rent, either because they didn’t have the cash on hand or because, with a recession looming, they wanted to preserve what cash they had. MORE

Its report [PDF] studied air ticket prices (ATPs) globally and found that the middle of the week, traditionally considered the best day, isn’t such a great time to book. In comments to the Philadelphia Inquirer , ARC Managing Director of Enterprise Information Chuck Thackston explained that the nature of business travel booking often led to higher prices because of the need to book trips at the last minute. New research from Airlines Reporting Corp. MORE

This Old City blogger Jon Geeting’s photos of sneckdowns in Philadelphia in February are a perfect illustration of how, paradoxically, a blanket of snow uncovers the most natural paths for cars and pedestrians. Knowing that total spend data was key to pricing the packages, Engel says. “It Last week, Associations Now did a story on my awesome client NICSA and the new membership model project we worked on together last summer. MORE

This Old City blogger Jon Geeting’s photos of sneckdowns in Philadelphia in February are a perfect illustration of how, paradoxically, a blanket of snow uncovers the most natural paths for cars and pedestrians. Knowing that total spend data was key to pricing the packages, Engel says. How one association unbundled some of its benefits and packaged them around “clusters of behavior” in its member engagement data. MORE

But recently some restaurants in large cities, such as Philadelphia’s Girard Brasserie and Bruncherie , have tried a different tactic: paying servers more while getting rid of tips entirely. It has to give restaurants time to budget and raise prices and all the things they have to do,” NMRA CEO Carol Wight told Albuquerque Business First. How much can I raise my prices without losing customers? If I don’t raise my prices, I’m going to lose my business.” MORE