Success

MARCH 8, 2023

Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. Women of all ages are launching businesses.

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BMT Office Administration

JUNE 26, 2023

Businesses live and die by the quality of their financial planning and performance, as most new companies fail (21.9% In other words, a company’s fiscal year may start on April 1st and end on March 31st instead of beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st. In this scenario, your company’s equity would be $80,000.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

These plans promise an organization's employees a specified retirement benefit that's determined by a formula based on some combination of an employee's earnings, length of time with the firm and age. In their place, companies offer defined contribution plans like 401Ks. These plans reduce costs and limit company risk.

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Success

MARCH 14, 2022

Whether you spend your days making sales calls, pitching to clients or investors, running a company, or just navigating through life, failure and the word no will inevitably dog you. He took to heart what I said at the previous seminar about listening, and he became one of his company’s top producers.”. “One The Bottom Line.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Nicole Grinnell took the idea of being a virtual assistant and turned it into a multimillion dollar company. Let me tell you about ezCater with over 100,000 restaurants to choose from nationwide and 24/7 customer support. Nicole is the CEO of a multimillion dollar company and has a background in being an executive assistant.

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Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Prior to this role, she served as a senior executive for diverse segments, representation and inclusion at Wells Fargo & Company. As the visionary founder of Digital Culture Group, she leads a forward-thinking digital marketing and advertising technology company deeply committed to inclusivity and diversity. Network Inc.,

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Allwork

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Specifically, in our case, when we look at the trend of remote work, for instance, combined with the enormous uptick in startups and small companies in the last decade, coworking really came as a natural solution, as an affordable and flexible workplace, so that’s like when it started, people were able to share a place to work from.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Industry clusters are place where there is a concentration of companies and services related to a particular industry.    Lafayette, CA, a small San Francisco suburb has created a restaurant cluster called  Restaurant Row.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 8, 2014

87% of companies now have a social media presence so it is becoming increasingly important for assistants to understand social media and in 2014 to go one step further and have a social media presences themselves. It’s free so what does your company have to lose? Social Media. Got a graduate scheme?

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 30, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion | Main | Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery » June 30, 2010 Yahoo CEO on Local Content Interesting interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz in the Wall Street Journal  (registration required).  View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 28, 2010

" The company installs 1.2   Restaurants and others use it to source local food; local farmers use it sell product.  square meter garden boxes in the back yards of their clients.    The picture on the right is from the article and does a nice job showing the product.  View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 22, 2010

  A good idea for any business, Hartman uses the example of Skillet (see their Airstream mobile restaurant on the right), who got the idea for their popular "bacon jam" from a customer.   They listen to their customers.  Bacon jam sounds disgusting to me.  Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

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Service Untitled

MAY 9, 2011

There are a few classic questions that most businesses almost always find useful, and I’ve seen these questions used quite often: How likely would you be to recommend ABC Luncheon Restaurant to a friend or colleague? How likely would you be to continue dining with us at ABC Luncheon Restaurant two years from now?

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The Marq

MAY 26, 2010

You can track your daily expenses, find hot deals on products, get currency exchange rates, calculate tip on your restaurant check, calculate your monthly payments on your new loan, figure out your retirement savings needs, track the performance of your stock portfolio, check the markets’ performance, and read the latest financial news.

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On The Job

JUNE 1, 2009

They can’t even look forward to retirement, because they’re going to have to work longer now. Another said she was looking for contacts in “restaurant work” because she was so burned out and wanted to leave the industry where she had built a successful career. Most people haven’t gotten a raise in years.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? I currently work on a fault helpdesk for a telecomms company and ABSOLUTELY hate it with a passion. I then had to find a shipping company and add on insurances and import duties, etc. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Allwork

JANUARY 29, 2024

So essentially we partner with people like me, the heads of HR, the heads of benefit in other companies, and we implement holistic wellbeing program for the employees. But we also saw in a recent survey that we just did, this concept is not new, but whenever you choose a job, you essentially choose a company, and the company chooses you.

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Success

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The surprises began with dinner at the swankiest restaurant from their hometown in Brussels and progressed to skydiving, matching tattoos and a “bachelor’s” weekend in Ireland. She’d said time wasn’t slowing down, but I could tell in his tone it meant more to him than the satisfaction of a checkmark. She woke him up at 5:30 a.m. Secret Santa.

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I had been a little bit of a loner before, even if I had my own company and all. Go Live As Often As You Can I remember how scared I was first time when Ian Peatey sent me direct message on Twitter asking me where the restaurant that I was having lunch was. At this restaurant? Wait, will I actually meet this nickname?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

After only 2 weeks, I found a great company through a staffing agency and the position was full time working for a wonderful CEO. While it seems extremely unfair and almost illegal, companies do take age into account when hiring or letting employees go. I recently found myself out of work and started my search.

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Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff. High-end rims? A creature of habit.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant.

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