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Near-Shoring Hurting China, Helping Small U.S. Manufacturers

Small Business Labs

Automation, which favors highly skilled labor. We first noticed the shift to bringing some manufacturing back to the US in 2007. The article lists 4 main drivers of the shift to near-shoring: Lower US energy prices. Higher Chinese labor costs. Supply chain risk is greater the longer the supply chain.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 13, 2007 You may speak more languages and have market segment knowledge about a certain product or service. You use your language and local knowledge skills and open up a new market for this small business. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Canadian small businesses report card : Ninety eight per cent of small business owners gave their companies a passing grade in a recent TD Canada Trust Small Business Survey, which asked 1002 small business owners with fewer than 20 employees to score their performance during the past year. 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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Clever Marketing by Kitchen Table Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Clever Marketing by Kitchen Table Business by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 11, 2007 Shirley Jaffrey wrote me an email today, telling me her story how she started her business on a kitchen table and is now supplying the stars. Carl from Paid Surveys Said on October 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 am This is a truly inspiring story. Any idea anyone?

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. Like the rest of job hunters, Generation Y has found jobs can be tough to come by, even with their skills. But do they (GenY) have less of an attitude?

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5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Accenture conducted a survey of 1,000 middle managers in large companies in the U.S.   Cultivating the skill of just focusing on one thing for 60 minute time period is an important skill that we are loosing with all of the multitasking that we do today. 

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