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Use of Contract Labor by Sole Proprietors Surging

Small Business Labs

In 2012 there were 23.5 In 2013 contract labor was 36% of total labor costs, up from 31% in 2010 and just 20% in 2003.  This is how most independent workers and small businesses report business income for tax purposes. In 2013 there were a bit over 24 million sole proprietors reporting about $1.34

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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

Starting a business wasn’t even on our minds when we first met in the summer of 2003. It’s Time to Level Up. The rate of startup creation across the nation plummeted 44% between 1978 and 2012, prompting small-business advocates to sound alarms. Our work cemented our mutual respect. We learned that difference was our superpower.

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Self-Employment Shifting to the Creative Class

Small Business Labs

As you can see from this chart, the share of creative class jobs has increased from roughly 25% in 2003 to almost 30% in 2012. A bit more than one third of all constructions workers are self-employed (and 1 in 6 of the self-employed are construction workers), so a pick-up in this industry could easily shift these numbers.

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AZVAs the Podcast: Social Media Success Stories

Loosely Speaking

Conversation: Katie is a groupie of Online Biz Insiders podcast and is excited to chat up co-producers Mary Motz and Carla Wilson on this month’s topic. for our first episode of 2012? Next up at AZVAs: Tuesday May 24, 9:00 a.m-10:30 Craig has been training and managing a diverse group of Virtual Teams since 2003.

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Thursday Morning & 20 Years of Celebrating You & Your Profession!

Office Dynamics

Joan came up on stage and began to discuss 20 Years Celebrating You & Your Profession. In 2003, Opening the Airwaves to Communication was hosted by The Boeing Company in Long Beach, CA and was built around “human moments.” And that brought us up to the present, 2013. They were all okay and things went well.)

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

In 2003, Gogo Bethke came from Romania to the US with $200 to build her American dream. Some of the good deeds include delivering 100 Easter eggs to children in a hospital dressed up as a bunny and putting on a birthday party for a woman in a care home who was turning 100, but had no family. Gogo Bethke. Paul Epstein.

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