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How a Payment Service Provider Can Help You Explore E-Commerce

Small Business CEO

Since March 2020, hundreds of thousands of businesses across the United States have closed permanently. million applications submitted in 2020. That’s an increase of about 24% over 2019, and it marks the largest number of new business applications submitted in a year dating back to 2004.

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

Success

The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled between 1985 and 2004, according to a 2006 study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona. That number was only amplified with the effects of 2020.

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How to Implement a Zero Waste Business Strategy

Eco-Office Gals

manufacturing plants haven’t sent any waste to landfills since May 2004 — a mission that began with a good-faith accounting of the company’s waste stream. sent to landfills by 2012, 75% by 2020 and 90% by 2040. The first step toward saving money through zero waste is to audit the company’s waste stream. Subaru’s U.S.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

Success

Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. The Michael J. Fox Show on NBC represented Fox’s first full-time TV gig since he left Spin City in 2001.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

A 2020 study by WerkLabs that looked at the effect of having colleagues who are also mothers found that “[two out of three] female employees with mom managers agree that their manager enhances overall team productivity” and 81% of mom managers “are rated favorably for encouraging collaboration among teams.” I have a lot of fun,” she said. “We

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Who Needs Luck? Quick Hint.

The Marq

Copyright(c) 2009-2020 TheMarq.com. We created some amazing products and services together that changed the world for the better, and I'm grateful to have been in the company of these great women and men who made up the most effective, enjoyable, and energizing teams I've been a member of. Thanks for the years and good times, folks!

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Interview with Kate Smith of Juno VA

Karen Vivarelli

I first met Kate Smith, Juno VA, when she joined my VA Course in March 2020. I worked for a tech start up back in 2004 after university and had the pleasure of working with a wonderful lady who provided freelance office services (set ups, systems & admin) to the new start up companies within the incubator.