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Video: 7 Tips to Start Small Scale Manufacturing

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7 Tips to Start Small Scale Manufacturing - Business Ideas for Product Makers is a fun and interesting video designed to help makers and other small manufacturers build their business. The video, below, is from the YouTube maker video channel from the highly energetic Evan and Katelyn.

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Book Review: Building the Business of You

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You can learn more about the book and get additional tips and career resources at the book's website.  Leverage themselves as their own best assets. Think of Building the Business of You as a guidebook for the new world of work.                   

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Study: Uber Drivers on Average Earn $11.77 Per Hour

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Another issue is tipping. Uber only fairly recently started allowing tipping on their platform. The EPI study appears to use Uber data on driver compensation prior to tipping (we need to double check this).    So far we've seen little data on the level of tips Uber or Lyft drivers are getting.

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Food Delivery Continues to Boom

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.  Controversy swirled around grocery delivery company Instacart and their policy on tipping, witch many called wage theft. While this led to Instacart changing their policy, other food delivery companies so far are continuing with their tipping practices despite complaints by both drivers and customers. 

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Showrooming Reaching Tipping Point, Changing Retail

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Showrooming is the trend towards shoppers visiting stores to see a product, but then buying it online or from some other store.  The reason is they've used their smartphone to compare prices and have found the product cheaper elsewhere - and elsewhere is usually online.

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Is the Declining Cost of Distance The Next Megatrend?

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Bain's Spatial Economics: The Declining Cost of Distance  suggests that an array of new technologies "have pushed the cost of distance to the tipping point" - and will lead to major changes in business and society in the near future.

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The Growing Importance of Managing Freelancers

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The Harvard Business Review's 7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Contractors  provides advice on how managers can successfully navigate their relationship with contingent workers.    The article covers seven tips, which are: Understand what they want. Set expectations. Build the relationship. Give feedback.