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The Economic Impact of Craft Brewing

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The Brewers Association recently released their small and craft brewing economic impact report for 2018.  Economy in 2018 and provided directly and indirectly about 550,000 jobs.  These occur in suppliers to the plant as well as places where auto workers spend their money.  Billion to the U.S.

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A Growing Number of Freelancers are Providing Professional Services to Businesses

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million in 2018.  Key quote from the report: Software supplier SAP Fieldglass and the supply management analyst firm Ardent Partners each found that over 40 percent of the average corporation’s overall workforce is currently comprised of nonemployee labor. As the study chart below shows, it's increased from 4.5

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In the Spirit of Giving Back: Socorro Tequila’s Philanthropic Efforts in Jalisco

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Papa, let’s quit selling other people’s tequila and let’s go make our own,” Antinori said to Irving one boozy night in 2018. According to a 2022 report by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 42% of the country’s population does not have access to daily water. The friends knew each other and trusted each other.

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Online Platforms Enabling the Rise of Global Micro Outsourcing Firms

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The Oxford paper, for example, reports that a graphic designer in the Philippines earns an average of $8.47 Individualization , which the paper describes as "the puzzling elimination of returns to scale, resulting in a supplier base that consists of one-person micro-providers."   But U.S. in greater numbers.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S. Here’s an example: Over the years, my company has probably purchased steaks as gifts for key clients from 10 suppliers that never did anything to land a second sale. This article was published in April 2018 and has been updated.

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The Stunning Growth of Small Business Globalization

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Every so often a report comes across our desk that makes us go "wow!" " McKinsey's Digital Globalization: The new era of global flows is such a report. The report stresses that individuals and the self-employed are becoming increasingly globalized. Back in 2008 we forecast that by 2018 almost half of U.S.

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10 Steps to Survive a Business Disaster

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While reporting that over half of British businesses will suffer cyber-attacks by 2018, a third of UK organisations admit that they have no response plan in place to protect themselves. b) Advise all suppliers, customers, and your utility providers of new arrangements and any changes. After all, everything is on the line.

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