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How to Know If You’re Financially Ready to Start a Business

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Market analysis: What are the current trends in your industry? Be clear on how you’ll set your business apart in your industry. After all, without cash flow and a solid financial plan that includes costs and expenses, you won’t be able to get your business off the ground. Divide your expenses into one-time (e.g.,

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Dear Debbie: Why Do I Downplay My Hard-Earned Success in Social Settings?

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The industry was booming, but I had also found my stride—a level of confidence and self-assuredness I hadn’t known before. I gave—money, time, career choices, energy, you name it—to ­others at the expense of myself. The world deserves the gifts you have to offer.

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The tricky world of expenses

Practically Perfect PA

I must admit I’ve been struggling to start writing the blog this week, I knew I would be discussing the dreaded task of processing expenses and as I’m sure you can imagine the subject hasn’t really stirred my creative juices! Do you have an expense policy in place? Try to do all of your expenses at the same time at least once a week.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

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In fact, in one industry study , nearly two-thirds of employees listed corporate culture as one of the top reasons they either choose to stay with their employer or look for opportunities elsewhere. . An ideal culture reflects your corporate values and requirements, instills trust, is at the heart of your processes, and motivates workers.

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How to Implement a Zero Waste Business Strategy

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Slashed Expenses. Companies that reduce or eliminate this line item from their budgets put themselves in a far better position to compete, no matter their industry. It’s essential to design packaging and products so that they’re easy to collect and send back to the factory for refurbishment or to be gifted or sold to a new owner.

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Jeremy Fennema – CTO and Founder of Fennema.io | How Emerging Tech is Reshaping Business Models and Workplaces

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But creating a really powerful ecosystem that I think is going to be one of the trends that you start to see in, like the manufacturing industry. First, we had a boost in the tech industry where Microsoft was afraid not to hire somebody because Amazon would hire them. It’s very expensive. Jeremy Fennema [ 00:26:34 ]: Nice.

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The Bribery Act – what do assistants need to know?

Practically Perfect PA

In the commercial world this is generally known as corporate hospitality with most companies giving and receiving such things as gifts, tickets for sporting and social events etc. Instead the Act looks at corporate hospitality and asks is the event or gift being offered standard and reasonable or is it excessive and lavish ?

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