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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015

Small Business Labs

Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015.   2015 Technology Trends. The ongoing technology platform shifts to Cloud and Mobile Computing will continue as long term drivers of change in 2015. 2015 Economic Trends. Despite signs of a global slowdown, our 2015 U.S.   2015 Social Trends.

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They’re Back: Boomerang Employees on the Rise for Good or Bad

Success

For Chad Stripling, director of data science for the interaction innovation team at 84.51° , a data science and analytics firm and media company in Cincinnati, Ohio, four years was long enough to be away from his former employer. He left the company in 2018, then returned in 2022. “I What causes boomerang employees?

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Slim & Husky’s Uses Their Artisan Pizza as a Means for Social Change and Community Empowerment

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Slim & Husky’s origin story Gray recalls the time the friends started their first business together—The Green Truck Moving & Storage Company—in 2010. “We They created the S+H brand in 2015, turning an old garage into a test kitchen so that they could perfect their recipes. We’re not just a pizza company,” Gray says.

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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

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Together with her husband, Kern Lima launched her company, IT Cosmetics, in 2008 out of their apartment living room in Studio City, California. He told SUCCESS that, “in 20 years, he expects there will be dozens of what he calls ‘world-class, game-changing companies’ that were formed in the aftermath of 2020.”

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

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From the moment she opened Ditto Boutique, a luxury consignment store in Dallas, Jane DeNike outsourced the complex tasks of payroll and paying taxes to a bookkeeper and accountant. She relied on these four experts to keep her company looped in on the tiny tweaks and massive overhauls in today’s quickly evolving technology.

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The US Talent Pool: Welcome Back to a Seller’s Market

Energage

Now let’s overlay the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on ‘Layoffs’ – the monthly rate at which organizations are dropping people from their payrolls. Companies just aren’t firing people like they used to, and workers are feeling more confident (1). From a steady pre-recession rate of 1.3% or 1.4%, we saw a surge to 1.9%

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. Compared to the setup of my previous business , a solar lighting company in Africa, I figured this e-commerce thing would be a cakewalk. Titles can be misleading. Dropship the products.