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Defining and Achieving Small Business Success

Small Business Labs

  The study consisted of a survey of over 400 small business owners coupled with a set of 26 in-depth interviews with "successful" business owners.   In 2007 and 2008 we did a series of focus groups with small business owners on this topic.   It's even surprising to a lot of small business owners.

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Major Shift in Thinking About Americans with Multiple Jobs

Small Business Labs

For example, we changed our surveys to ask about "other sources of income" instead of "other jobs" about 3 years ago. We did that based on our interviews with independent workers. This led to about a 4X increase in the number of survey respondents reporting multiple sources of income.

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Digital nomads are starting to price out local communities around the world

Workplace Insight

The same survey also suggests that up to 72 million “armchair nomads”, again, only in the US, are considering becoming nomadic. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, I have found that the rise of professional short-term-let landlords, in particular, is helping to price local people out of their homes.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

« Dubai World – British Banks Building Castles In The Sand Interview with Steve Pritchard from hiremyparents.com » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under SME News Round-up. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Hot Jobs and Job Ruts

On The Job

The chapter now offers retired social workers everything from computer skills updates, interviewing and personal marketing advice, as well as ongoing training on various aspects of working with older adults. companies, according to the Ethics Resource Center's 2007 National Business Ethics Survey®. .

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Coworking Labs - Our New Research Blog for our Coworking Project

Small Business Labs

.  We first wrote about coworking in a research report in the Intuit Future of Small Business report The Changing Face of Entrepreneurship , which was released in January of 2007.    Conduct two surveys augmented by in-person interviews.   Conduct two surveys augmented by in-person interviews.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 209/11/24

The Small Business Blog

This interview with one private lender tells what private lenders look for before investing and one way to find one. The proposed agency is called the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which is intended to protect consumers from making risky financial decisions. Private Lender :Where can entrepreneurs go when the bank says, “No&# ?

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