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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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“In broad terms, millennials get it, get that education is key to a better life and that education doesn’t necessarily stop when you get your first piece of paper, your first degree—you keep going,” says Liz Weston, a nationally syndicated personal-finance columnist. “I They’re not waiting for an employer to take care of them.”.

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

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Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 08, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

  To see our past lists, click on the year: 2010 , 2009 , 2008.    Alternative Financing:  While the improving economy is leading to increased small business access to financing from banks and other traditional sources, capital will still be tight in 2011.  GDP increasing 3%-3.5%. 

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.    It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one). 

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too. Hope this will work.

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