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The Stunning Financial Success of Gig Economy Marketplaces

Small Business Labs

Last week Airbnb and DoorDash went public with breath taking valuations.  Airbnb closed Friday with a market capitalization of $83 billion and DoorDash's came in at $55 billion. As the chart below shows, they aren't alone.  Other gig economy online marketplaces have also achieved huge financial success. To put these numbers in perspective, Airbnb is worth more than Marriott ($42 billion) and Hilton ($29 billion) combined.  Other notable firms to compare with include the

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We Should View These Lessons As A Gift From 2020

Tips From T. Marie

Well, here we are again. At the end of another year. Normally I’d be writing about yearly accomplishments and setting goals for the new year. But 2020 has been as far from a normal year as you can get. So, there will be no ‘normal’ year end post. Instead, I would like to share a few lessons I believe are a gift from 2020. LIVING TO WORK IS WRONG. So many of us, particularly here in the United States, have made work the number one priority in our lives.

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4 Steps to Achieving Career Goals During a Pandemic

On The Job

During the pandemic, your career goals may have withered a bit. At this point, you're just trying to keep your job and cope with everything life has thrown at you. But it's not a good idea to just forget about your career goals, and in fact, you can take this time to think more deeply about what you really want and how to go about getting it. Consider: 1.

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Testing YouTube Video Player Styles for Vertical and Square Videos Embedded on a Webpage

Andrea Kalli

It’s the end of 2020, and I’m just getting into creating more and more vertical and square videos for people. So I decided it was time for me to explore deeper into how clients can take their newly minted vertical or square video, upload them to YouTube for the exposure benefits, and utilize the YouTube embed code for placing the video onto their website page or blog post.

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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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Key Findings from 10 Years of Studying the Gig Economy: Freelancers Happier and Healthier

Small Business Labs

One of the clearest findings of the decade-long MBO Partners State of Independence study is full-time Independent workers (freelancers, independent contractors, the self-employed) consistently report that they believe they're happier and healthier because they are independent workers. In 2020, 83 percent of full-time independents said they are "happier working on my own," and 71 percent said that "working on my own is better for my health." These results are not surprising.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. And we have to keep our executives organized, too. With so much to keep in order, it’s easy to neglect one vitally important area that requires a great deal of organization: our careers. Protect Your Admin Career.

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Creating A Remote Recruitment Agency

Recruit CRM

The unprecedented pandemic created a massive stir in the whole wide world, especially causing the more than half of the working population to operate from their homes. Apart from having a direct mental, physical and economic impact on employees, entrepreneurs, startups and even established companies worldwide, data from CIPD has shown that work-life balance, well-being, job security and so much more has gone for a toss.

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Key Findings from 10 Years of Studying the Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

Last week, MBO Partners released its 10th annual report in the MBO Partners State of Independence research series. Emergent Research (that's us) worked with MBO Partners on this ongoing study across all 10 years. The research was based on surveys of over 23,000 independent workers, gig workers, and micro-business owners and was augmented by 1,500 in-person interviews throughout the decade.  Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be highlighting some of the key findings and insights f

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5 Ways Instagram Can Increase Your Business Productivity

Small Business CEO

With the constant increase in social media usage around the world, businesses have found a way to use it to their advantage. Most businesses around the world see social media as a new opportunity to enhance their market presence, boost their revenue, and ultimately increase their business productivity. According to a study done by Microsoft in 2013, approx. 46% of employees claim that effective use of social media as a communication tool has enhanced their productivity.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Company Culture

Small Business CEO

Implementing a positive company culture has a great many benefits to a business, but how can you do this? Find out here…. As a business owner, I have no doubt that your main priority will be to turn over a profit. The problem is, so many CEOs get so bogged down with this short-term goal, that they neglect the bigger picture. The reality is that any company owner who purely focuses on monetary goals will only fail.

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6 Amazing Virtual Phone Tools That Can Replace Grasshopper

Small Business CEO

If your business involves managing inbound calls, using a business VoIP phone service can’t be ignored. It ensures efficiency in your business and increases its credibility. When a customer dials your service number and hears something like, “dial 1 for service support”, they will realize they’re contacting a big and credible business.

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How to Structure a Website for SEO

Small Business CEO

If you are building a new website or optimizing a current one, there are a lot of things that you may consider doing differently. Online user and search engine trends change fairly consistently. Of course, you want your target audience to get to your site and have a good experience. You also want to appear near the top of search engine results pages (SERPs).

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5 Best Practices for New Property Managers

Small Business CEO

Running an apartment property or complex is a demanding yet rewarding occupation. You’ll often find property managers (also known as facilities management administrators or apartment managers) at the head of such enterprises. Apartment managers are tasked with managing a landlord’s obligation, sometimes acting as a landlord themselves. Their responsibilities include managing financial matters, enforcing leases, and preparing performance reports.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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How to Buy and Sell Shares for Beginners

Small Business CEO

Want to sell or buy stocks online? Have you been thinking of starting your investment journey in the stock market? You should always remember that proper knowledge is crucial for buying and selling shares with gusto. Firstly, what is a stock? To simply put it, this is a share in any company. Whenever any company is listed, its stocks/shares are traded on the prevalent exchange.

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Get the Proper Settlement Due for You by Hiring a Car Accident Attorney in Simi Valley

Small Business CEO

Car accidents often lead to stressful situations especially with what comes after it. Surely you will be having a lot of questions on your mind like the legal process and how everything is going to work. So, with that, you will surely be in need of an experienced car accident attorney in Simi Valley in order to serve as your guide in the legal aspect of the accident.

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5 Essential Things Recruiters Should Be Doing This December For A Stress-Free January

Recruit CRM

With December being a bit slow for recruiters, there's essentially not much to do around this time of the year. Most candidates wait till January to search for new job roles and there's very negligible recruiting that ideally happens. Everything is beginning to look a lot like Christmas and New Year is just around the corner. But things being lazy, recruiters can actually make more of the free time at hand because honestly speaking, this Holiday Season is not the usual one that you spend with fr

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Recruiters Must Look Out For These 8 Features In An Applicant Tracking System

Recruit CRM

From helping in smoothening out the entire recruiting process to job advertisements and candidate interviews, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is definitely a boon for Talent Acquisition professionals. If a recruiter has never used an ATS before, the entire process of choosing an ATS can be daunting, because he/she will probably be unable to shortlist what are the features they want to look at.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Thinking of Building a Diverse Candidate Pipeline? Here Are 5 Such Strategies for You

Recruit CRM

Did you know that based on global LinkedIn data, diversity roles in companies have increased by 71% from 2015-2020? The growth of diversity and inclusion of employees in companies have significantly improved and companies nowadays are putting all in to make sure that these numbers keep progressing. Recruiters have surely understood the benefits of diversity hiring in today's age and thereby have been seen implementing and blending it more into their recruitment playbook.

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Thinking Of Building A Diverse Candidate Pipeline? Here Are 5 Such Strategies For You

Recruit CRM

Did you know that based on global LinkedIn data, diversity roles in companies have increased by 71% from 2015-2020? The growth of diversity and inclusion of employees in companies have significantly improved and companies nowadays are putting all in to make sure that these numbers keep progressing. Recruiters have surely understood the benefits of diversity hiring in today's age and thereby have been seen implementing and blending it more into their recruitment playbook.

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