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The Surge in New Small Business Applications

Small Business Labs

Applications to get a tax ID as part of starting a business jumped a dramatic 77% in Q3 from the prior quarter.  This was the largest increase ever in business applications - and there's nothing even close. As the U.S. Census chart below shows (click to enlarge), both solopreneur business applications (referred to as "Applications Other than High-Propensity") and High-Propensity Business Applications (those indicating they are planning on hiring employees) significantly increas

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3 Keys for a Great Recommendation

On The Job

When searching for a new job, we often just focus on what we will say to employers about our skills and experience. We practice answers to questions such as "What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?" Employers understand that you've practiced these responses, and expect you to offer reasoned answers. They won't really learn anything earth-shattering from these responses, so they may look elsewhere for real insights into your talents and abilities.

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The One of a Kind Assistant Conference Experience

Office Dynamics

A Recap of Our First-Ever Virtual Conference for Administrative Assistants Our first-ever virtual conference for administrative assistants had so many monumental moments and nuggets of information.

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Clear Signs You’re Ready to Start Your Own Business

Small Business CEO

There’s no mistaking that feeling of contempt as you log on or clock in for another days’ work. Another 8 or more hours of mental or physical labour and wondering if you’re destined for something else, something better than this…. Believe it or not, more people than ever are moving away from traditional employment and starting their own business instead.

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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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TechCrunch's 5 Startup Trends for the 2020s

Small Business Labs

TechCrunch's 5 startup th eses that will transform the 2020s looks at 5 broad startup themes that will define the next decade.  These are: 1.  Wellness : TechCrunch defines wellness more broadly than most.  They say it encompasses building " humanistic societies with strong social fabrics that enliven, enrich, and build meaning for our lives …" More concrete is their view on the needs of our health system.  Key quote: Then there’s the health system in general.

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Are We Zooming Through Good Manners?

Bonnie Low-Krayman

By Bonnie Low-Kramen | November, 2020 | Published in Career Success Magazine, S. Africa. In my book, “ Be the Ultimate Assistant ,” I devote a chapter to good manners where I make the case that “Good Manners Matter.” In a workplace that has transformed in just a few months, do good manners, common courtesy, and civility still matter? The answer is yes.

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Why a Warehouse is The Solution to The growth of your business

Small Business CEO

As the efforts you take to grow your business succeed, you simultaneously create a new challenge for yourself to overcome: chiefly ensuring you have the resources to meet increased demand. This is particularly pertinent for businesses which sell physical stock, as storage and distribution becomes pivotal to maintaining a customer base. When considering the function of a warehouse, one would instinctively think of these facilities being solely used by large, often international, organisations; on

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How to create and send invoices

Karen Vivarelli

How to create and send invoices using paid and free online tools: Wave Apps Xero Canva Word Which one is best? This is a trick question but essentially it depends what stage of business you’re in. ARE YOU A NEW OR SEASONED ENTREPRENEUR? Are you just getting started on your business journey and setting up your business foundations for the first time?

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Recruiters Must Avoid These 7 Hiring Mistakes At All Costs

Recruit CRM

The mistake of hiring a wrong candidate is worse than not finding one at all. A recruitment agency's talent acquisition strategies have time and again pointed out how not to take a swift call when hiring someone. As per the US Department of Labour, the cost of making a bad hiring decision can be as much as 30% of an employee's annual salary. So for instance, if an employee makes $80,000 per year, that's a whopping $24,000 in lost expenses.

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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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Time Management Goals for Executive Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

Today, executive assistants frequently respond to as many as three top-level executives. Companies are looking for the best ways to maximize their ROI, and assistants often take three employees’ workload rather than one. In such a fast-paced, high-stakes job environment, assistants must become experts in time management. Executive assistants not only have to manage multiple execs’ schedules, but they also have various other responsibilities they didn’t have before.

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Tech Trends – How to be a Modern Entrepreneur

Small Business CEO

Modern Australian entrepreneurs are leveraging their online skills to connect with their audience. A storefront business can still bring many benefits to a company’s overall performance. But you would be crazy to assume that a business address with your logo over the door can cover the cracks in a floundering online presence. Also, how to run a modern company is making tech trend news.

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How to set up a free email signature

Karen Vivarelli

Having a professional email signature to sign off with makes you look professional and it also means all of your essential contact info is included for people to find. Luckily setting it up is actually pretty easy and the best part? Well… there’s a free tool to help you do it and it takes about 10 mins to set it up. Wanna know what it is?

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Recruiters Must Avoid These 7 Hiring Mistakes At All Costs

Recruit CRM

The mistake of hiring a wrong candidate is worse than not finding one at all. A recruitment agency's talent acquisition strategies have time and again pointed out how not to take a swift call when hiring someone. As per the US Department of Labour, the cost of making a bad hiring decision can be as much as 30% of an employee's annual salary. So for instance, if an employee makes $80,000 per year, that's a whopping $24,000 in lost expenses.

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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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3 Inbox Labels You Need to Use

Jen Lawrence

Keeping our inboxes organized can be a bit of a nightmare. If you’re like me, your inbox is an extension of your task list, which makes everything a bit harder to keep straight. With the constant flood of messages, it’s hard to have insight into what you need to do, what you’ve responded to, and what’s important. The key to optimizing an inbox is using the tools at your disposal to making it work for you – and therefore, eliminating some work!

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How To Convert Your Office Into A Eudaimonia Machine

Small Business CEO

In Aristotelian ethics, Eudaimonia is the condition of peak human flourishing or living well. And for many of us, working in beige, open-plan offices or ecru cubicle farms sets the scene perfectly for us feeling the exact opposite! So if you’ve got the golden opportunity of designing an office from scratch, really nailing down the physical environment can ensure that conditions are genuinely conducive to producing excellent work and contributing to good mental and physical health.

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Starting My Fifties In The Twenties

Brilliantly Better

Today I turn 50. That’s half a century. Not bad. This event falls in 2020, a year some people labeled – in a somehow regrettable burst of enthusiasm – “the start of the twenties”. I am sure those people thought about the 1900s twenties, expecting the same amount of glamour, wild life and expansion. An. Read more. The post Starting My Fifties In The Twenties appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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4 Important Aspects To Consider While Remote Recruiting

Recruit CRM

If you are a recruiting firm, your day to day working system would include managing your candidate pool, parsing resumes with the usage of a high-quality Applicant Tracking System , scheduling interviews with candidates and so on. This definitely has gone upside down because of the ongoing pandemic. Almost overnight everyone has moved from working from offices to working from home- including the recruitment and staffing sector.

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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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3 Inbox Labels You Need to Use

Jen Lawrence

Keeping our inboxes organized can be a bit of a nightmare. If you’re like me, your inbox is an extension of your task list, which makes everything a bit harder to keep straight. With the constant flood of messages, it’s hard to have insight into what you need to do, what you’ve responded to, and what’s important. The key to optimizing an inbox is using the tools at your disposal to making it work for you – and therefore, eliminating some work!

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The Best Online Brokerage for Trading

Small Business CEO

With the availability of many online brokerages, trading on different stocks and assets is now easier than ever. The question is which brokerage to choose for trading. Thanks to the advancement in technology, trading or investing in stocks, indices, commodities, or currencies, etc. have now become easier than ever. A reliable connection to the internet, coupled with a reliable trading platform is just about everything you need these days to get your money to work on your behalf.

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Reasons to Professionally Clean Your Office Carpet

Small Business CEO

Carpets are one of the essential accessories in an office. They form a part of the office decor and keep the floor clean. With constant traffic and footfall, carpets can quickly pick up dust, grime, and much more. Superficial cleaning will only remove an outer layer of dust. If you want the carpet to look good and last long, you need deep cleaning. It is always best to use the services of professionals to get your office carpet cleaned.

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CEO’s: Here Are Five Useful Skills You Can Learn Online

Small Business CEO

Online learning is enjoying an unprecedented boom at the moment, and not only because of the current COVID-19 pandemic. These days the number of online courses available is staggering, with a genuinely impressive variety of subjects on offer. Thanks to advances in technology and investment in the industry, an online education no longer has to be considered second best.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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An In-Depth Look at Backlinks and Their Uses

Small Business CEO

The word backlink is one of the commonly most terms in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), and it’s simple to understand. A backlink is just a link to another site using some kind of anchor text. According to Forbes , these links are crucial for staying relevant and adapting. So what is the big deal with backlinks and why are they so important?

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5 Tips For Writing Great Recruitment Email Subject Lines

Recruit CRM

Your clients and candidates have been receiving hundreds of emails on a weekly or fortnightly basis from various recruiters all over the world. Look at your inbox right now.how many unread emails do you have? 200? 500? More? With so many emails that never get opened or make their way into their trash, as a recruiter, you need to realise that there is something significant going wrong.

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5 Tips for Writing Great Recruitment Email Subject Lines

Recruit CRM

Your clients and candidates have been receiving hundreds of emails on a weekly or fortnightly basis from various recruiters all over the world. Look at your inbox right now.how many unread emails do you have? 200? 500? More? With so many emails that never get opened or make their way into their trash, as a recruiter, you need to realise that there is something significant going wrong.

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