Small Business Labs

JUNE 20, 2013

CNN did a very positive report on freelancing recently. See the MBO Partners State of Independent report - which is mentioned in the CNN piece and we helped produce - for more details. The 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence report will be released early this fall. chose to be independent and like it.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

 As with past years, we'll be covering the 2013 forecasts and predictions that we find interesting and relevant. The restaurant consultants Baum + Whiteman released The 17 Hottest Food and Dining Trends for 2013.  The report also comes with a list of 15 key food related buzzwords for 2013.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

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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Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the Giving USA annual philanthropy report, corporate giving totaled $29.48 The duo started asking questions and volunteering and eventually founded their business in 2013. When he and his wife, Jacqueline, saw kids arriving at camp with torn garbage bags to carry their belongings, the duo created State Bags in 2013.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2014

from 2013 and 12.5% Key findings from this year's study include: The majority (82%) of independent workers report being highly satisfied (63%) or satisfied (19%) and plan on remaining independent in the future (76%). The full 2014 MBO Partners State of Independence report is available here. million in 2014. This is up 1.2%

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 9, 2021

  Key quote: Ninety-six percent of over-65 workers reported that an enjoyable job is essential or important to living a fulfilling life. In fact, we covered it so often we wrote back in 2013 that we were tired of the topic. The article lists the usual financial reasons for working in retirement.  

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Success

MARCH 30, 2023

In Buffer’s “ 2022 State Of Remote Work ” report, 21% of participants reported “difficulty focusing” as one of their struggles with remote work. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. So, what can you do to stay focused while working form home? Move your desk near the window or away from it.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 19, 2019

The study - The Effects of Self and Temporary Employment on Mental Health: The Role of the Gig Economy in the UK - found that gig workers are about 33 percent more likely to self-report positive traits in terms of mental health than those in traditional jobs. The reason will come as no surprise to regular readers.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And as we reported in September,  the number of independent workers (freelancers, gig workers, self-employed, etc.) A 2013 article by antiwork movement intellectual leader David Graeber, which he turned into the book B t Jobs: A Theory in 2018.  has increased 34% in 2021 as compared to 2020.  

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Success

JANUARY 16, 2023

meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 If the intent of a meeting is to have people report what they’re doing, have them write a memo instead. A 2022 Otter.ai

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

  It's based on extensive surveys and interviews across 33 countries and updates similar efforts conducted in 2013 and 2016.    The study covers a lot of ground (the study report is 120 pages long) and identifies 12 key trends that Ipsos believes will dominate the world in the 2020s. 

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Success

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A 2022 Glossy article notes a reported annual revenue of $100 million and that the company is in a “prime spot” for potential acquisition or a public offering. 29 Communications in 2013, “sustainability” and “impact” were far from the buzzwords they are today. The company raised $150 million in private equity funding in 2020.

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Success

JUNE 5, 2023

By age 13, she’d given three TED Talks; her third, at TEDWomen 2013 , went viral. At 16, Penn was “commissioned to produce and animate the opening of the first ever digital report presented to Congress,” according to her website, which advocated for the construction of an American museum of women’s history in Washington, D.C.

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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. But after peaking in 2010, it declined until 2013 and then started to increase again.  There have been a number of reports on the decline of entrepreneurship in the U.S. We will, of course, continue to follow the new indicators.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It generated a lot of media attention, most of which focused on the data showing the average rideshare driver's earnings per month declined 53% between 2013 and 2017 (click on the chart to enlarge). Yes, the study did find that the monthly earnings for the average gig worker driving people or goods decline by 53% between 2013 and 2017.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The IRS recently released the 2013 data on sole proprietors. This data covers business receipts, deductions, and net income reported by individual taxpayers on Schedule C of Form 1040. This is how most independent workers and small businesses report business income for tax purposes. million sole proprietors who reported $1.30

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Success

MARCH 14, 2023

When SUCCESS first met Dyson, it was early 2013 at the launch of his hybrid Airblade motion-activated hand-dryer and faucet. In 2010, he wrote a report called “ Ingenious Britain: Making the U.K. This article was published in November 2013 and has been updated. I’m a designer and engineer and maker of products.”

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

full-time independent workers/freelancers who report having health insurance increased from 64% in 2013 to 82% in 2015.  million more freelancers have health insurance than in 2013.   Three quarters of full-time independents report working more than 30 hours in an average work week.  

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Productivityist

JANUARY 2, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact The Apps and Services I Need to Use More in 2013 Posted on 01/02/2013 // 2 Comments I’ve tested a lot of apps and services over the past few years, and there are some that I’ve given more attention to than others. I’ll be giving this app far more attention in 2013.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 9, 2014

The Staffing Industry Analysts  is reporting there are currently more than 145 online staffing platform businesses operating globally.   They also reported in 2013 the industry generated roughly $1.4-$1.6 billion in "gross spend"  This is the dollar value of work completed and paid for.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 24, 2017

A recent study by researchers at the University of Birmingham found "that employees with higher levels of autonomy in their work reported positive effects on their overall well-being and higher levels of job satisfaction." " In other words, independent workers with autonomy and control are highly satisfied and like their work.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Back in 2013 HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland released the Management Assistant 2020 report , which detailed how the role of an Assistant will change by 2020. This is what the report says about Assistants as information managers. In 2013, many assistants still sat in silos in their office.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

They want their support team and direct reports to live and work just as successfully as they do. We learned that you don’t wait to ask permission to be confident; you move out in self-leadership and lead yourself. Today, so many executives and leaders have CPAs, life coaches, financial advisors, tech experts and personal trainers.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 7, 2023

It publishes podcasts, reports, daily updates and now IN and Works magazines. About Us Insight Publishing is one of the world’s leading platforms for workplace news, commentary and features.

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Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, as the standards are evolving and more companies are willingly reporting on their ESG (the environmental, social and governance aspects of their business), potential investors are increasingly looking at positive screens. I started getting a lot of response from it, so in 2013 I turned it into a more interactive website.”.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2014

  People reporting they are working part-time for economic reasons (PTER) would prefer to work full-time but are working part-time because of slack work or business conditions, or because they could find only part-time work.    People reporting they work part-time for non-economic reasons (PTNER) are choosing part-time work. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 4, 2016

  According to Pew Internet's Home Broadband 2015 report, "the share of Americans with broadband at home has plateaued, and more rely only on their smartphones for online access." " As the chart below from their report shows, since 2013 U.S.  

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Small Business Labs

MAY 2, 2016

Again from the 2013 State of Independence report on the independent workers without work flexibility and control: "They are much less satisfied with independent work and almost half (49%) report being dissatisfied. Gig workers who do not have work flexibility or control tend to not like gig work.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 15, 2022

New CIPD research claims that almost half (45 percent) of UK employers report having vacancies that are hard-to-fill, and almost two thirds (65 percent) anticipate problems filling vacancies in the next six months. Pressure on pay could ultimately feed into higher prices for products and services.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 16, 2013

In Sir Mervyn King’s final quarterly inflation report as the governor of the Bank of England, he has predicted modest economic growth for the remainder of 2013 and also a fall in inflation. The rise in growth for the second quarter of 2013 is likely to be 0.5%, which will add to the 0.3%

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On The Job

MAY 11, 2016

Specifically, the report finds that digital leaders are twice as likely to achieve more rapid revenue and profit growth as the “laggards” in the study. It’s not that other companies don’t have a commitment to digital: 86% of CEOs are pushing digital technologies compared with 57% in 2013. Digital leaders set strategy.

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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. Since 2009 the craft beer industry has continued to advance, with 2013 being a banner year. in 2013 despite an overall beer sales decline of 1.9%. beer sales, up from effectively 0% a decade or so earlier. Since 1% of the U.S

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Interesting data from Pew Research's The Growing Pay Gap Between Journalism and Public Relations shows that the PR field is booming even while the total number of reporters in declining. As the Pew chart below shows, over the 10 year period from 2004 to 2013 the number of reporters fell by 17%.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 24, 2017

As the chart below shows, the percentage of full-time independent workers with health insurance has increased from 64% in 2013 to 83% in 2016. million more independent workers have health insurance than in 2013.  So the impact of Obamacare on the self-employed is even greater than reported in the Treasury study.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 18, 2015

TrueBridge Capital Partners recently released a report on the State of the Venture Capital Industry.  Key quote from the report: 200 funds invested in five or more deals in 2014, 4% fewer than in 2013 and 83% fewer than in 2001. A couple of charts jumped out at me. The first is the number of active VC firms.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 18, 2014

Ten percent of contingent workforce buyers planned to use online staffing in the next two years; that’s a jump from a similar survey in 2013 when only 3 percent planned to use online staffing over the next two years. The marketplace themselves are also reporting continued strong growth. 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 7, 2018

employment has grown consistently since 2013.   All of these impacts and changes are covered in more detail in the 2018 MBO Partners State of Independence report , which we work with MBO Partners on. The economy added another 157,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.9%.

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