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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/10 by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 10, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. « Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Flexible Office Report covers the continued growth of coworking and other forms of flexible offices. The report chart below shows that one source - us - is forecasting that over the next five years the number of coworking members will double and the number of spaces will increase by roughly 60%.  Liquidspace's Q4, 2017 U.S.

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MAY 30, 2023

After lodging a sexual harassment complaint against a coworker at her job in 2009, Cynthia Watson says she was shunned in the office. It wasn’t until her white counterparts reported similar incidents that her department finally took action. She was characterized as a troublemaker, and her concerns were ignored.

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 19, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos – Part 3 (reporting & fans) Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:19 pm // By: // Category: Baseball Today, he drove to Tempe, to the Angels Tempe Diablo Stadium to report. Received equipment, signed up for his new insurance program (yeah!),

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the Giving USA annual philanthropy report, corporate giving totaled $29.48 After years of feeling the experience’s personal impacts and seeing it in other children whose families could afford it, he looked beyond the usual slate of campers to found Camp Power in 2009. billion in 2022.

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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. 34 in the peak years of 2009 and 2010. There have been a number of reports on the decline of entrepreneurship in the U.S. The indicators cover the time frame from 1996 to 2017 and will be updated annually. This is just shy of the.34

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JANUARY 14, 2022

It was 2009, and she had just lost everything in the Great Recession: her real estate business, a spacious house in California and all of her belongings. As I went about the next several years looking to rebuild my life, it was not about budgets and credit reports,” she says. “I She looked to God and asked, “Why me?”

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Gallup has published its 2023 Gallup Global Emotions report [registration] – a study of employee sentiment in the UK workforce. The result is that UK workers are more pessimistic about living standards than at any point since 2009. What’s more, nearly all UK workers are not enthused by their work and workplace.

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APRIL 2, 2018

But as NPR's  Why The Number Of Independent Bookstores Increased During The 'Retail Apocalypse'  reports, despite Amazon and other challenges independent bookstores are having a bit of a renaissance.    From 2009 to 2017 the number of U.S. independent bookstores increased roughly 40%. 

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mental health and wellbeing will dominate conversations about the role of work in people’s lives this year, due in part to the effects of the global pandemic, as well as social and economic instability around the world, according to the latest megatrends report from UKG. Fostering agility.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It reports that 13.9% The chart below shows how the both the official and supplemental poverty rates from 2009 to 2017. In September the U.s. Census Bureau released the Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2017. of Americans lived in poverty in 2017, which is statistically the same as in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

See the 2009 Inuit research brief Today's Hobbyists are Tomorrow's Hobbypreneurs for more on this topic. We worked with Intuit on this report and while the research is 9 years old, we think the findings are still relevant.   We've long studied the shift from hobbyist to hobbypreneur.

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JULY 11, 2021

I love to do it, I do it well and people report that they get great value from it. This article was originally published in June 2009 and has been updated. Yes, these may include hobbies or volunteer jobs that could be transformed into careers. For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

After co-founding eHealth Africa (eHA) in 2009, Castle oversaw fundraising efforts that drew in $250 million over a 10-year period. When it comes to facilitating health care for an entire country, executives are every bit as crucial as practitioners, especially during public health crises.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

billion in 2028,” according to a Fortune Business Insights report. Making kelp food mainstream One of the longest-running kelp-reneurs is Atlantic Sea Farms, which launched in 2009 in Maine as the first commercially viable seaweed farm in the United States. billion in 2021 to $24.92 Seaweed farmers [in the U.S.]

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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.  They also report that: the number of self-employed aged 65 or older has more than doubled over the past 5 years.   Their data shows the UK has 4.6

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Office Dynamics’ 2009 month long “blog-a-thon” brought 700 new visitors to the website. Peggy Vasquez & Darlene Mahon present in a general session on day #2. Downstairs just before 8:00, I enjoyed another outstanding, generous breakfast.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Office Dynamics’ 2009 month long “blog-a-thon” brought 700 new visitors to the website. Peggy Vasquez & Darlene Mahon present in a general session on day #2. Downstairs just before 8:00, I enjoyed another outstanding, generous breakfast.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Back in 2006 we reported that craft brewers - also known as microbrewers - had captured almost 6% of U.S.   We revisited the industry in 2010 and found craft brewers 2009 revenue share of the U.S. Since 2009 the craft beer industry has continued to advance, with 2013 being a banner year. beer market had grown to about 7%.

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JULY 7, 2015

A study recently issued by eBay reports that in the last year 190,000 U.S. This is up from about 30,000 in 2009.   According to data from the 2014 MBO Partners State of Independence report, 13% of full time independent workers - roughly 2.2 And it's not just SMBs selling goods on eBay that are exporting. 

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

think tank, released a study showing that 60 per cent of the growth in self-employment in Great Britain since 2009 has been in what they call the "privileged" sector.   The report chart below (click to enlarge) illustrates how they split sectors into privileged and precarious.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

For years, he gave this talk in his courses, urging his students to test it in their business and social settings and to report back at the next class. This article was published in February 2009 and has been updated. From this material he prepared a short talk, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.”

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The And according to their research report The State of Contingent Workforce Management 2014-2015 this growth is going to continue.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2010

It's a She-conomy is one of my favorite  Intuit 2020 Report trends.    - Women passed men in earned doctorates in 2009.    - Women passed men in earned doctorates in 2009.  Tags: Intuit 2020 Trends Report trends women.   In 1950 it was 29%.    The U.S.

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Job Advice Blog

JULY 31, 2010

A comprehensive preemployment check consists of an employer’s examination of court records, motor vehicle reports, credit reports, identity records, possible aliases, and several other kinds of checking. All of those findings warrant companies’ doing such checking prior to employment.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Workforce Week has a special report on contingent staffing.    The American Staffing Association reported that 2010 Q2 staffing industry revenues were up 33% versus Q2 2009.  Yes,   Yes, 2009 was not a good year.    The short version - it's booming. 

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Job Advice Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

If you are being compensated this way and you are showing up on site, reporting to someone then you are an employee of that company, which means you are entitled to more than you know. Most employees don’t realize the added expenses that a company has simply to pay an employee.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What these media sources have in common is that they report on international issues. I fully understand that for those who are unemployed, the rate of unemployment that the news reports is at 10 percent is, rather, 100 percent for them.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

That 23-day celebration has drawn millions of attendees each year since 2009 (except for the pandemic years). The Future of Immersive Art.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

That 23-day celebration has drawn millions of attendees each year since 2009 (except for the pandemic years). The Future of Immersive Art.

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MAY 13, 2014

Back in 2009 we released Today's Hobbyists are Tomorrow's Hobbypreneurs , a report on the Maker Movement with our partner Intuit. " At the time we wrote this report,this was controversial. " At the time we wrote this report,this was controversial. and global economy." and global economy."

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JANUARY 8, 2013

  For reasons too complex to discuss here, the BLS generally only reports or talks about unincorporated self-employed in their publications. Since a bit more than 35% of the total self-employed are incorporated, the BLS decision to report only the unincorporated self-employed leads to a lot of confusion. referenced in the report. 

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Pew's Fighting Poverty in a Bad Economy, Americans Move in With Relatives reports that over 50 million Americans live in multi-generational households.    As the report's title indicates, the Great Recession had a major impact.  million to 51.4 million to 51.4

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows. One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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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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JUNE 24, 2010

……The school district should tell us about its investments like corporations publish in their annual reports and we can become better investor partners in the Hudson City schools.&# This buyer desires transparency to make better decisions against their own judgement of value, calculated as current value (e.g. Beautifully said.

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