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The Predictions for Small Business Saturday 2023 Are In—Here’s How to Optimize Them for Your Business

Success

Consider looking to contractors, temps or other nontraditional employees to ensure you can optimize the day’s profit potential. She’s also turning to ManyChat this year, a social media tool to quickly respond and reply to each comment to send them a direct link to buy a product.

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Google's Shadow Workforce

Small Business Labs

Bloomberg's Inside Google's Shadow Workforce covers the use by Google of what they call TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors" According to the article about half of Google's workforce is comprised of TVCs.  And it's not just big companies

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Establishing a Digital Presence

Recruit CRM

As a startup or a small company, not very many clients nor candidates are going to visit your office. You may add a list of clients, some client/candidate testimonials, any new service you provide (like resume writing, temp staffing, consulting), etc. This a bare minimum. Getting the basics right. Let your presence be known.

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What can we learn from watching the Crystal Ball?

Job Advice Blog

Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. The article is predicting that as soon as the economy will show signs of improvement the better employees will jump ship to a company that pays better. They also need to learn how to benefit from the fast-evolving social media.

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

Consumers tell us they are looking for authenticity and honesty from the companies they buy from.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Temp, volunteer, apply for PT work and list that as your present role. So, it's best to search for temporary, short-term admin work via temping, volunteering, applying for part time work so you have something to put on your resume. Get into social media for your skill set and self branding.

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary. The latest data show that there is an ongoing loss of full-time and permanent jobs. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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