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The Top 5 Things That Were Wise Investments for My Home Business

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Why it was a wise choice: Storing my files in the cloud rather than on a physical hard drive or flash drive makes it easy to access them from my desktop, laptop, iPad, and phone. 2 A Business Phone. Why it was a wise choice: When I first started my out, I just used my cell phone as my business phone too.

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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. She purchased a second location from her mother in 2012 and has since opened one more, giving her three locations in New Jersey. “My The morning was like any other , the monotony of life so quickly forgotten: wake up, shower, coffee, drive to work, rinse, repeat.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. In 2012 I passed along between 35 and 40% of the work that came my way.

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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

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In 2012 I wrote about my mother-in-law, Helen Johnson, and I think this question defined her life. I admit it, I’m pretty addicted to my phone. I am trying to lessen my phone dependence for Lent. The supplier doesn’t like the new product you designed. Don’t sleep with your phone. I’m working on it. Enjoy them!

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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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We were making a lot of cold calls, just pounding the phones, to try and convince people to work with us. billion in annual production in 2012 (up $900 million over 2011) and partnered with 850 leaders in the insurance business. billion in annuity, Medicare and life insurance production.”.

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

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  2012 will see more small businesses recognize and take advantage of this key competitive advantage.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” She moved on in 2012 and founded Mina Shah Enterprises the following year, self-funding with income from consulting. trillion.”

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