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3 Companies That Give Back to the Community Year-Round

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Bombas When they learn the most requested item in homeless shelters is socks, most people stash away that fact and move on or maybe donate a few pairs of new socks since old pairs can’t be reused for hygiene reasons. “You The duo started asking questions and volunteering and eventually founded their business in 2013.

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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

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I landed my first writing gig in 2013. The scope of the project was far greater than 500 words and it took about two weeks to complete. Below are the top three lessons I learned. I had been casually blogging for about a year, so the prospect of creating content for pay was thrilling—even if it was just $30 per 500-word post.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Formula information and testing data are transparent and accessible, and its scientific board includes researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project. 29 Communications in 2013, “sustainability” and “impact” were far from the buzzwords they are today. Most Innovative Marketing/PR Company 7.

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This Entrepreneur Built a Business on Values-Based Investing Before It Was Cool

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I like learning by doing,” he says.) Over the next few years, Kaminer did more and more sustainability consulting and became an investor in some small-scale solar projects in New Jersey. I started getting a lot of response from it, so in 2013 I turned it into a more interactive website.”. It’s primarily a passion project.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

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If you knew him only from his trailblazing forays into the video blogging realm, where he was renowned for quirky, crowdsourced art projects, you might not guess that the career of Hosea Frank (Ze for short, pronounced “zay”) has been bookended by scientific roles. I took to that computer stuff so fast,” Frank says. “I

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Launching Lessons Learned Interview: Cena Block

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Today, I'll share another Product/Program Promotion: Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned.  We'll be discussing what she learned as she launched her 5-week Group Coaching Program.   What didn’t go so well and what were your lessons learned?    Any big lessons learned?