Success

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It was 2007, and the global economy was spiraling toward a massive recession. This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated. When Robert Glazer founded the global affiliate and partner marketing agency Acceleration Partners , his timing wasn’t great. It took patience, but the business took off.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 6, 2018

According to the Kellogg Insights article  How “Speed Factories” Help Companies Adapt to Capricious Consumers , speed factories are: a local-market facility designed to quickly pump out products with shorter life cycles and less predictable demand, like apparel sported by Kendall Jenner or LeBron James that suddenly becomes a must-have item.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

  But as Christensen points out in his 2015 HBR article What is Disruptive Innovation : as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others. It's now clear it's doing so.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

  According to a New York Times article on the funding round , a key reason Wag can raise this much money is the value of their data. Key quote from the article: "Data on the real-world comings and goings of internet users — and, evidently, their dogs — is a highly sought-after commodity among technology companies."

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 5, 2018

  But as Pew points out in their article  Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin : " we believe 1996 is a meaningful cutoff between Millennials and post-Millennials for a number of reasons, including key political, economic and social factors that define the Millennial generation’s formative years."

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 5, 2019

We first reported on the old Kauffman Index back in 2007 and have followed it every since. We'll explain why in a future article.  The indicators cover the time frame from 1996 to 2017 and will be updated annually. They replace the Kauffman Index, which was also on entrepreneurial activity but not as data intense.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 23, 2018

  We first noticed this trend in 2007. Key quote from our article back then on this topic : Related to this, I've been in several corporate meetings lately where the topic was discussing moving offshore manufacturing back to the US.  This is especially true for Bay Area firms. 

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Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2007, Kaminer left the family business and created Talgra. “I This article was published in Febuary 2015 and has been updated. After graduating with a business degree from the University of Vermont in 1990, Kaminer began working in his family’s brokerage firm. From a personal enrichment standpoint, something was missing.”.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2016

  As we pointed out in our article on OfferUp, Craigslist hasn't changed much in the past decade. Facebook first launched a Marketplace type product in 2007, but it wasn't successful. Like Craigslist, Facebook does not facilitate the payment or delivery of items listed or sold in Marketplace. Facebook has about 1.7

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Success

MARCH 9, 2023

After Intuit’s rebranding, revenue in the fourth quarter of 2008 was 11% higher than the final fiscal quarter of 2007, with total revenue for 2008 topping $3 billion. This article was published in March 2009 and has been updated. In today’s world, things change rapidly and positions don’t come with instructions.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. As the article chart below shows, gum sales have declined substantially since the release of the iPhone.    The reason, according to the article, is we're now too busy looking at our phones in check-out lines to buy gum.

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Success

JUNE 17, 2022

When we launched in 2007, we immediately looked at the keywords customers were using to search for what we offer—affordable wall art, finished by hand and sold exclusively online. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. Sales rose by 23% in 2012. We’re an online retailer, so SEO was critical to choosing our name.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 4, 2017

A key reason we started following coworking back in 2007 was it provided a flexible alternative to the traditional long term commercial office lease. Because of this, a recent article by the CEO of the coworking chain Industrious grabbed our attention. It also covers two key trends they see driving change in commercial real estate.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 13, 2018

Allwork's recent article The Top 5 Most Valuable Companies that are Using Coworking nicely covers this trend. As anyone who's recently visited a newly designed corporate office knows, they look a lot like coworking spaces.    And, of course, corporations are increasingly housing employees in coworking spaces.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 14, 2016

articles) as a way to market your business has been around for many years (I released my first info product in 2007 called, “The Complete Article Tracking Toolkit” ). So really your only avenue for distributing your articles and ensuring they were seen by a wider audience was to submit to the article directories.

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Success

MARCH 27, 2022

Since 2007 the American Psychological Association has conducted an annual survey called “ Stress in America.” This article appears in the October 2015 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Money and Stress in America. Beatty is hardly alone. For years money has been a leading cause of stress for most Americans.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Harvard Business Review article entitled “Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams (November 2007: Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. This principal exhibited by the tortoise resonates with the HBR article in question wherein the authors deduce 8 factors that lead to success of large teams. Modelling collaborative behavior.

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Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

by Originally posted 2007-12-05 15:52:52. This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best."

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In 2007, I started this blog and wrote articles on various subjects that would be of interest to an administrative assistant. I enjoy the preparation leading up to the meeting, the actual taking of the minutes and the follow up afterwards. I particularly like senior executive meetings. So how did I get into it?

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Key quote from the article, which is written by a MIT engineering professor: I nonetheless believe that the slowdown is due, in part, to an acceleration of “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer. The article lists 4 main drivers of the shift to near-shoring: Lower US energy prices.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2014

 The size of the "lolly" represents the size of the industry and the bottom of the stem shows the mix in 2007.  All industries had a greater share of PTER workers in 2013 than in 2007 (all the lollipops point upwards). The article goes on to compare 2013 with 2012.   Go to the article for more details.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

  We've been following coworking since 2007 and one of the most interesting aspects of this industry is how consistently people all over the world describe coworking and its benefits. At the event it was announced that there will be a coworking conference this December in Shanghai. 

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Success

MARCH 14, 2023

Life at the Dyson Research, Design and Development Center But the title dearest to Sir Dyson (he was knighted in 2007) was still “engineer.” This article was published in November 2013 and has been updated. By 1995, it was the top-selling vacuum in the U.K. You get on to the next thing.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Data released by ONS (the Office of National Statistics) shows that there are now more businesses in the UK than at any time since they changed the way it was calculated back in 2007. … Read the full article here: More UK businesses than ever on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG. Image: City A.M.…

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Tips From T. Marie

JANUARY 4, 2017

At the time, it was a relatively unknown term and I wouldn’t find myself really investigating it until August of 2007 after receiving my first (and last) pink slip as the real estate bubble burst under the weight of predatory lending practices and the looming shadow of the Great Recession. . It was barely a blip on the radar.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 14, 2017

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. That’s when I started my first blog in 2007. If you want to make sure you don’t miss any of my future articles in the Career Success A to Z series, become a member of the Free Career Resource Library.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 12, 2013

Female business ownership in the US increased more than 20% between 2002 and 2007. The infographic below has a whole load… Read the full article here: Infographic: US Women Business Owners on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG. An interesting trend in the US recovery is how much of it has been driven by women.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 2, 2023

In his 2007 bestseller, The Four-Hour Workweek, author and podcast host Tim Ferris coined the term “geo-arbitrage” to describe the phenomenon of people from higher-income countries – the US, Europe, South Korea – wielding their wages in lower-cost countries. Read the original article. We want houses to be places where people can live.”

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Clutter Coach

APRIL 20, 2014

by Originally posted 2007-12-05 15:52:52. This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best."

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2014

  It's from the Wall Street Journal article Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic. The startling chart below shows shows retail foot traffic is rapidly and dramatically declining. They're also increasingly browsing online and then going to stores to make purchases.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

  As the chart below - from the New York Times article Three Questions on the Jobs Picture - shows, it's down to levels we haven't seen since the 1970's (the blue line is the actual data as reported by the BLS, the red line is the trend).  In 2007 54% of Americans aged 25-54 were working.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

  The article focuses on  Prime Produce , a New York city coworking collective. Again from the article: Prime Produce is exploring a model in which many members will be co-owners of a cooperative firm, which will manage the proceeds of their dues and pay rent to the sympathetic investors who own the buildings. 

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Clutter Coach

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Originally posted 2007-12-05 15:52:52. This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. The article mentions several aphorisms that perfectionists live by, such as, "Never accept second best."

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Success

MARCH 23, 2023

When Gary Moore’s son, Andrew, turned 11 in 2007, Moore worried about his future. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Moore’s concerns weren’t typical. His friend Dan Selec understood these woes. Photo courtesy of College of Adaptive Arts.

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Success

AUGUST 17, 2022

Annabelle Mauger began this trend with the 2007 Van Gogh immersion she produced and directed; Imagine Van Gogh has since been followed with Imagine Monet and the new Imagine Picasso. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Success

AUGUST 17, 2022

Annabelle Mauger began this trend with the 2007 Van Gogh immersion she produced and directed; Imagine Van Gogh has since been followed with Imagine Monet and the new Imagine Picasso. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 12, 2013

Last fall our article Are We Becoming a Part-Time Nation covered the trends leading to the growing number of part-time workers in the U.S.   The recent New York Times article The Rise of Part-Time Work covers some of the same ground. million fewer Americans working full time.

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