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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

Success

Perhaps you’re tired of waiting the 20 seconds or so it takes your shower water to heat up. Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions. By 1995, it was the top-selling vacuum in the U.K.

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Navigating the IRS’ Interactive Tax Assistant

BMT Office Administration

Once I got the hang of loading the tax-prep software onto my almost-brand-new Windows 10 laptop and ran through sometimes deliberately vague set-up questions, I discovered several blatant errors. Probably, but I’m not owning up to it yet. The sets of questions differed, depending on their gender.

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Are We Becoming a Part-Time Nation?

Small Business Labs

 In 2007, a year when the economy was strong and unemployment low, a bit over 22 million Americans worked part-time. Given the impact of the Great Recession, this not a surprising shift from 2007. In 2002, roughly 18% of all part-timers were teens aged 16 to 19. has always had a lot of part-time employment.  

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Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week

The Small Business Blog

Ann Landers (1918-2002) US columnist, attrib. Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 09, 2010 A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.&# Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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Local SEO: Four Tips for Ranking High in Your City

Andrea Kalli

Almost all business was pushed towards the number one ranking — the outlier at the top ended up taking an irrationally large slice of the pie. Often, business owners find themselves so caught up in their paperwork or their day-to-day operations that they forget about… Continue reading the rest of this article.

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3 Podcast Production Styles – Which is Right For You?

Andrea Kalli

My name is Andy Robbins and I started my podcast production company , AudioFile Solutions, in 2002 after spending the previous 9 years in the audio production industry as an audio engineer. Podcasting as a Commercial In this day and age, we have all grown up on television, radio and now the Internet.