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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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More Global Mobile Phone Subscribers Than People by 2015

Small Business Labs

I was reading GigaOm Pro's Global Mobile Subscriber Forecast and noticed that by 2015 the world will have quite a few more global mobile phone subscriptions than people.    As the chart below shows, GigaOm is projecting that there will be a bit over 8 billion global mobile subscriptions in 2015.   

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

Success

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. That got lonely. They’d misheard his birth name as José. No problem.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

In 2013, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported a study that found students who traveled abroad showed increases in positive personality traits, including openness to experience and emotional stability. You can see long-term projects in an all-new light. It can literally calm you. Time seems to slow.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

If you had asked me a week before that accident if I was happy, I would’ve said yes,” I told life coach Martha Beck over the phone. “ From that project she got referrals and commissions, to the extent that she was making so much money at it, she wondered why she was going to graduate school at all. And everything changed. “If

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What can assistants expect in 2014?

Practically Perfect PA

I know I always say I can’t believe how the time flies but I seriously can’t believe how quickly 2013 past us by! Throughout 2013 we noticed a huge increase in PA networking with a number of local networking groups springing up across the UK. It was quick wasn’t it!? I’m not just getting old! PA Networking.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. I sometimes would like to be a project manager or be able to take decisions. Seen as a secretary.

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