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Nobody Likes Dealing with Death—Until They Attend One of Amy Pickard’s Humorous ‘Good To Go!’ Parties

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When Amy Pickard’s mother died suddenly in 2012, she was understandably grief-stricken. She included, “all the minute, everyday things that came up that I had no answer to, like ‘Do you have a storage space?’” “Good To Go!” But she also felt frustrated and overwhelmed, since her mother didn’t plan ahead for her death. “I

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Solopreneurs Generated $1 Trillion in Revenue in 2012

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million in 2012. This is up 1.1%, or 245,000 businesses, from 2011.   These businesses generated $1 trillion in total revenue, up 4.2% Census recently reported that the number of U.S. nonemployer businesses reached 22.7 This translates into an average of $45,300 per business.

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These Top 10 Celebrity Franchise Owners Are Winning Outside the Limelight, Too

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Perhaps Wahlberg’s most famous venture is the Wahlburgers franchise he and his brothers founded in 2011. Drake Launched as a pop-up Hollywood eatery in 2017, Dave’s Hot Chicken franchise caught the eye of rapper Drake who signed on as a stakeholder in 2021. With over 700 U.S.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample.

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2011-2012 Accuweather Winter Weather Forecast

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." The forecast is also not all good for those of us in northern California: "The famed "Pineapple Express", a phenomenon that occurs when a strong, persistent flow of tropical moisture sets up from the Hawaiian Islands to the West Coast of the U.S., could develop for a time this winter."    

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My 2012 Career and Business Plan

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As we head down the final stretch of 2011, I (like the rest of the world) am engaging in a little annual professional planning and review session. I would say, all in all, I’m pretty pleased with 2011. So, I’m making a very clear commitment in 2012 to maintain a 70/30 split. But there’s always room for growth.

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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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We felt we had a good value proposition… Things began picking up pretty well, and it turned out that what we thought was missing from the marketplace really was missing.”. billion in annual production in 2012 (up $900 million over 2011) and partnered with 850 leaders in the insurance business.

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