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More Small Businesses Turning to Online Lenders for Financing

Small Business Labs

The Federal Reserve recently released its 2019 Small Business Credit Survey.  A key finding is the use of online lending sources by small businesses is rapidly expanding.  As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2018 32% of small businesses seeking credit applied to an online lender. This is up from just 19% in 2016. The top reasons small businesses say they turned to online lenders is their speed of decision making and the view that they had a better chance of being fu

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These are the tasks you should be doing instead of your Executive

Practically Perfect PA

The most important aspect of the Assistant role is saving our Executive time. It is their most valuable resource, and everything that we do should be geared up to protecting and nurturing their time. In this post, I want to share some advice that I gave a few years ago around some of the areas […].

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Free or Low-Cost ways to reward employees

Ian's Messy Desk

The post Free or Low-Cost ways to reward employees appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. Everyone likes to be appreciated! This sounds like it should be common sense, but it doesn’t always translate to common sense. This is especially true in non-profit organizations. There is something of an assumption that using rewards to show employee appreciation costs money.

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How To Better Strategize For Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Starting a small business isn’t easy, but can be made less confusing with the right strategy in place for success. Below are a few simple ways you can properly plan for the growth of your business and avoid common issues that might arise with ineffective strategizing. Be Organized. Begin strategizing for your small business by first getting organized, whether that be with your physical space and office setting or simply with the way you function throughout the day.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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APW 2019 - Tuesday

Audacious Admin

For Administrative Professionals Week 2019, I'm digging up some of my favorite Admin related articles. The following was written by Carol Kleiman and was published September 7, 1992 in The Chicago Tribune. Take a memo: Executive S ecretaries are W orth a K ing's R ansom ​ It's not paranoia that makes a chief executive officer worry about being kidnapped. ​ Indeed, it's a realistic fear.

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