On The Job

DECEMBER 27, 2007

So, I'm doing a Tidbit Thursday, which doesn't sound as catchy but will nevertheless be just as riveting: * Hand me that wrench: In ranking the best careers for 2008, U.S. News and World Report dropped 25 profiled careers from its 2007 list and added 11 new ones.

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an article for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Issam Samiri highlights that “between 1974 and 2008, the U.K.’s a year, a much higher rate than the growth rate between 2008 and 2020 at around 0.5%.”. s productivity grew at an average rate of 2.3% by 2028. .

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

FPB warns that removing ‘green’ fuel tax incentive will further alienate small firms : The FPB is questioning the Government’s commitment to helping small firms switch to environmentally friendly fuels, following an announcement in the 2008 Budget that it is to remove a tax incentive for investing in ‘green’ biofuels.

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Success

APRIL 22, 2024

She is into historical fashion and has been collecting antique bags since age 12, Atlas Obscura reports. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the occupation for security analysts (who perform ethical hacking) is expected to grow 32% by 2032. Sara Rivers Cofield, an archaeological curator at Maryland’s MAC lab, might have you beat.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Faire reports having "15,000 stores actively buying on the platform?—?more   The trends we reported on in 2008 as driving the growth of the new artisan economy still hold true today: 1. The wholesale marketplace Faire raised $100 million while the wholesale and licensing business Minted said they raised $208 million.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 4, 2024

Released annually, the IPSE Self-Employed Landscape report provides a snapshot of how the sector’s size, demographics and economic impact have changed in the past year. The report also found that the sector’s economic contribution soared by more than £50bn in 2023, to a total of £331bn, after declining in 2022.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Brewers Association recently released their small and craft brewing economic impact report for 2018.  We even featured the industry in a 2008 research report,  The New Artisan Economy,  which we did with Intuit.   The study found that the craft brewing industry contributed $79.1 Billion to the U.S.

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Success

JUNE 5, 2023

In 2008, eco-fashion was nowhere near a mainstream topic, so I wanted to create a better alternative,” she remembers. The interest in fashion design came from Penn’s artistic talents, but it was her love for nature that spurred her research into the fashion industry’s immense environmental impact. “In Productions.

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On The Job

JANUARY 2, 2008

The reason: the reporter who usually did the story had taken a buyout package and the newspaper was now too short-staffed to have someone talk with him and do the story. When I spoke with him recently, he told me that a large newspaper that normally also interviews him wouldn't be doing so this year.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 12, 2018

Exploring the rise of self-employment in the modern economy is a new report on self-employment in the UK. This group has grown by 46 per cent since 2008, and now accounts for almost half (46%) of all solo self-employed. We will report our new finding in a few months. This is similar to the U.S

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 6, 2018

We even featured the industry in a 2008 research report, The New Artisan Economy,  which we did with Intuit.    And we still like this summary paragraph from The New Artisan Economy report: The new generation of artisans will be amplified versions of their medieval counterparts.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Oxford paper, for example, reports that a graphic designer in the Philippines earns an average of $8.47 As we pointed out in the 2008 Intuit report  The New Artisan Economy,  a combination of new technologies and business models mean returns to scale are no longer the key to success in many industries. . 

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Stoddart Review , published in 2016, was one of the most significant reports of recent years to explore the role of the workplace for employee productivity in extensive detail and why the office environment was key for productivity purposes. However, the Stanford Institute WFH research report stated that 12.7

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 24, 2015

It comes from the 2015 Economic Report of the President  (page 147), which is prepared annually by the President's Council of Economic Advisers for Congress. Census, which explains why the latest data is from 2008. But      This data is collected only occasionally by the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 25, 2016

  In 2007 and 2008 we did a series of focus groups with small business owners on this topic. So just as our 2007-2008 study findings were surprising to most people, so too are these findings (or at least that's the feedback so far).  See the report for more on this. 

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Clutter Coach

JUNE 30, 2015

by Originally posted 2008-02-26 09:36:00. It reminded me that it’s time for my yearly request for free credit reports. The Fair Credit Reporting Act says that all three of the major credit reporting agencies offer free credit reports to everyone once a year.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 29, 2016

The 21% revenue share is up from just 6% in 2008. We used the beer industry as the main example in our 2008 New Artisan Economy report on how changing industry structures is leading to more small businesses.  Key quote from their press release: In 2015, craft brewers produced 24.5

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 6, 2014

We first noticed this in a 2006 McKinsey report. We built upon this idea in the Intuit Future of Small Business report The New Artisan Economy in 2008 where we identified increasingly collaborative ecosystems developing between big and small/solo businesses. Deloitte describes the barbell as fragmentation and consolidation.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 15, 2016

Every so often a report comes across our desk that makes us go "wow!" " McKinsey's Digital Globalization: The new era of global flows is such a report. The report stresses that individuals and the self-employed are becoming increasingly globalized. Back in 2008 we forecast that by 2018 almost half of U.S.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to a 2022 McKinsey report , 36% of American workers earn a living partly or wholly through independent work, which included delivery workers, tutors, writers, freelancers, contracted workers and temporary positions. In the 1990s, as a business reporter in Southern California, she began taking financial-planning courses.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As you can see from the chart below, the use of the term "digital nomad" started to gain traction in the 2008-2009 time frame. The number of citations has accelerated since, with Google reporting more hits on this term this month (January 2015) than all of 2010.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) released a report showing that self-employment in the UK is the highest its been since they started tracking it 40 years ago. This is up from 13% in 2008, and 8.7%  They also report that: the number of self-employed aged 65 or older has more than doubled over the past 5 years.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 4, 2017

As we pointed out in the 2008 Intuit report The New Artisan Economy : … by the beginning of the 21 st century, ownership of large-scale infrastructures no longer determined business success in a growing number of industries. Coworking turned a fixed cost (long term lease) into a variable cost (month to month membership). 

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Expensify’s moto is “Expense reports that don’t suck!” ” Founded back in 2008 Expensify have a number of features that make processing expenses easier. Administrators can process hundreds of reports and the system can be centrally managed by an administrative or finance team. What is Expensify?

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 21, 2016

In 2014 we reported on a Pew study showing only 44% of Americans consider themselves middle class, down from 53% in 2008. in 2002 to 34.8% This is part of a broader trend of fewer Americans in general seeing themselves as middle class. So it's not just millennials.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 14, 2008

by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 14, 2008 In a report, due to be published next month, from the European School of Management – ESM , it is reported that there has been a marked decline in small business activity in the the UK under Gordon Brown. Decline of Small Business Sector in the UK! The list is endless.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail from your manager. Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Home About Me Advertise "Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity Y our manager sends you an e-mail with a spreadsheet attached. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 11, 2011

of GDP in 2008.   In the Intuit 2020 Report we forecast that U.S.   Last year's 4% increase means we spent about $100 billion more on health care than in 2008.  .  Health spending was 16.6% Multiple factors are driving the trend towards increased U.S. health care costs.   

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 25, 2024

The findings , reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, were that participants who viewed natural images had lower stress levels and felt more rested afterwards. After this, they would view one of two series of pictures.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In 2008 Intuit released The New Artisan Economy , which covered a combination of economic trends and changes that were resulting in the re-emergence of artisans as an economic force.  We partnered with Intuit and the Institute for the Future on this report.  New artisans that make things.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Originally posted 2008-05-27 09:27:00. Having another pair of eyes seeing what you see and reporting a different view is powerful, and helpful, stuff. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I went clothes shopping last week with a friend who had volunteered to help me upgrade my image. Li'l sweater and hat courtesy of Mantofev.com.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Filed Under: Prioritize , Productivity D o you need extra help with your workload ? Home About Me Advertise Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer! Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of tasks that keep getting piled on your desk like a never ending mountain of files?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Today the British Chamber of Commerce announced in its latest monthly report that: 33% of companies said access to finance was more difficult over the last three months, is is up 13% on the previous quarter; 3% reported improved access to finance – a drop from 6% a quarter ago. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Originally posted 2008-05-27 09:27:00. Having another pair of eyes seeing what you see and reporting a different view is powerful, and helpful, stuff. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I went clothes shopping last week with a friend who had volunteered to help me upgrade my image. Li'l sweater and hat courtesy of Mantofev.com.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 4, 2010

In a recent article in Advertising Age entitled Banks Turn Message Back to What Consumers Want , reporter Beth Snyder Bulik spotlights the fact that banks are listening the consumers and changing their message to one that includes the answer to ‘how can you help me manage my finances?

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Success

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The crash of the housing market in 2008 and subsequent recession decimated her business, leaving her on welfare and food stamps and—eventually—sitting across from a generous Harvey who offered to create a job with the sole purpose of helping her get back on her feet. And it was gone overnight. I thought, This is a dream! When can I start? ”.

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