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How Your Office Can Go Green in 2013

Eco-Office Gals

Here are a few ways in which offices can contribute towards conserving the environment without much expense. ??Reducing Large corporate buildings consume vast amounts of electricity merely by powering up their computers. Providing coffee to one’s staff is a big morale booster and helps employees keep up with their work.

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Use of Contract Labor by Sole Proprietors Surging

Small Business Labs

The IRS recently released the 2013 data on sole proprietors. In 2013 there were a bit over 24 million sole proprietors reporting about $1.34   As the chart below shows, sole proprietor contract labor expenses increased 38% between 2010 and 2013

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How to Name Your Business

Success

The key is to come up with a name and tagline combo “that hits you between the eyes in one eyeful,” Joyner says. It’s far less expensive to name a company with a descriptive title and tagline,” Isen says. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. Consider the type of name you’re after.

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The On-Demand Economy and the "Plight of the Sometimes Poor"

Small Business Labs

Conducted in 2012 and 2013, the study tracked the finanical lives 235 low- and middle-income households. They are very expensive and very hard to do.  None of the families were the richest or poorest in their communities, and while a quarter of them fell beneath local poverty line, others earned up to twice that much.

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Economic Insecurity and the Decline of Babies

Small Business Labs

But they may go even lower in 2013. Centers for Disease Control indicate 2013's fertility may decline slightly compared to  2012. But once the economy picked-up, so did birth rates. And they are expensive to raise. .  This maintains the number of U.S. We think people are responding in a similar way. 

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Book Review: Hand to Mouth - Living in Bootstrap America

Small Business Labs

In 2013 Linda Tirado saw the following question on an online forum she followed: Why do poor people do things that are so self-destructive? It was picked up by the Huffington Post and other publications and after a few million page views, Tirado got a book deal. This is just what life if for roughly a third of the country.

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2014 MBO Partners State of Independence Report Released

Small Business Labs

This is up 1.2% from 2013 and 12.5% trillion in total revenue in 2014, spent more than $150 billon on non-payroll/contractor expenses , and are the primary income source for more than 10 million American households.  It shows independent workers (self-employed, independent contractors, freelancers, etc.) million in 2014.

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