Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

  According to the article, outsoucing to rural areas is price competitive with sending work overseas once you add in all the administrative and management costs.  Good article in Business Week on the growth of rural outscourcing.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 3, 2010

  Social shopping is a form of social networking where consumers and/or retailers aggregate and share information about products, prices and deals.   The normal price is $295, so the savings is substantial.    It is also becoming attractive to companies to offer social shopping services. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 12, 2010

  With the price of smartphones continuing to fall, and their capabilities increasing, this is an easy forecast to believe.  will exceed "dumb" phones in 2011.    The chart below is from Nielsen via the Mobile Manifesto blog. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

  But their prices have fallen substantially over the last few years and low end professional 3D printers cost less than $5,000.  3D printers have been around for years, but until fairly recently they were expensive and used almost exclusively for product design and rapid prototyping.  View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 8, 2010

The midwest is benefiting from strong food, commodity and energy prices.  .  The article focuses on Fargo, ND, but also talks about the broader upper midwest - which has a very strong economy relative to most of the rest of the U.S.   Costs - both living and business - are also much lower than most of the coastal U.S.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2010

  Interesting quote from Macy's CMO on the role of data and analytics highlights this: " what makes this attempt at localization — known within the company as My Macy’s — different from running a local department store has been the systematic collection of information." Having trouble reading this image?

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 2, 2010

We have a galore of options of cheap old cars for sale that are very cheap in price with exemplary features and mechanism. We would like to introduce ourselves as the most preferred site for buying cheap used cars and second hand cars. We understand the potential growth in the requirement of private cars for sale. View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 6, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement | Main | Foreign Born in the U.S.   We first noticed companies starting to shift manufacturing back to the U.S.   The companies moving manufacturing back to the U.S. Workforce » July 06, 2010 The Trend Towards U.S.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

A good business system summarizes everything you know about your role in the company and how to do your job. Simply insert your company logo to make it your own. Creating a business system or standard operating procedure (SOP) may be the right move for you. Theyll be able to do your job.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? In 1999 I was still office based, traveled from one of our offices around the world to the next and was rarely home. Atlanta Travel City Guide Said on May 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pm You can be with your family while running your business at the same time.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant.

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