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Use of Contract Labor by Sole Proprietors Surging

Small Business Labs

This data covers business receipts, deductions, and net income reported by individual taxpayers on Schedule C of Form 1040.   As the chart below shows, sole proprietor contract labor expenses increased 38% between 2010 and 2013.    Over the same period salary and wage expense increased only 10.7%.

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The Freedom to Work from Anywhere: Your Virtual Business Tips (Part 4)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Many of my friends and colleagues run their businesses from all over the world and I have had a mobile business since 2003. Having VAs I can simply fax order forms to. Money example: snapping a picture of a biz expense to my Money notebook in Evernote at the moment of spending. I used to carry 12 paperbacks on ever trip.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

Allwork

And then there was another initiative in Vienna that started back in 2003. The model can exist in many forms and in many places. And what’s really interesting about those is that usually the coworking space provides the latest technology in terms of material, which, for instance, in the cooking industry is quite expensive.

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Sugar Not The Icing On The Small Business Cake.

The Small Business Blog

Let me spell it out for anyone who really has not got the picture, businesses go bust because: The banks will not lend money to them; Even if they lend the money it is so expensive that it takes any profit out of the deal; They run out of savings. This problem with credit was highlighted in 2003 by the FT (media) – everybody ignored it.

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Not all accountants are created equal (how do you choose an.

The Small Business Blog

The Republic of Ireland looks like it has already started to make moves towards defining the term accountant with the establishment of the Irish Auditing and Accountancy Supervisory Authority in 2003. I feel 2008 will see the efforts of the accountancy bodies see results, in the form of legislation.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. They want you ready-formed with skills you can use day one. But then the recession hit and unemployment soared to more than 10 percent. No longer the case.

2009 100
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Bioteams Part 4: The Team Organization Zone

BioTeams

The boundary and the processes form a unity – you cannot have one without the other. The two half arrows outside the circles represent all forms of communications between the living system and its external environment. A good strategy is to have the stronger bioteam members play coaching and advisory roles to newly forming teams.