Wed.Jun 27, 2018

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The Number of Nonemployer Businesses Continued to Grow in 2016

Small Business Labs

The U.S. Census recently released the 2016 nonemployer business statistics. Key quote from their press release : nonemployer establishments increased 2.0 percent from 24,331,403 in 2015 to 24,813,048 in 2016. Receipts increased 1.5 percent from $1.15 trillion in 2015 to $1.17 trillion in 2016. This continues a pattern of about 2% growth per year in the number of nonemployer businesses over the past couple of decades. Since 2003, for example, the number of nonemployer businesses has increas

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Study Gives Important Clue About How to Boost Collaboration

On The Job

When you're a manager trying to get team members to work together better, you would be wise to look at the "status" of each worker before asking them to help one another. A study by The Ohio University's Fisher College of Business finds that you're going to get the best results from team collaboration by asking those a "moderate" distance in status from one another to collaborate.

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Check Out what’s New with Facebook in 2018

Small Business CEO

Facebook is undoubtedly the largest and most loved social media platform currently. It attracts billions of users for a variety of purposes. One of the techniques the social networking site uses to get such a large following is by constantly enhancing the website with new stuff to improve user-experience and retain loyalty. During the 2018 Facebook F8 developers’ conference, Mark Zuckerberg and his team proudly announced plenty of innovative and fresh features that the platform would be introduc

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Off the Clock with Laura Vanderkam

Productivityist

This episode is sponsored by Newton. Newton is my email app of choice…and has been for a few years now. Recently they’ve reached a massive subscriber milestone: 40,000 users! I’m one of them because Newton has everything I’ve been looking for in an email application and more! You can (and should) give Newton a test drive for 14 days by visiting [link].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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When Does Office Security Turn Into an Invasion of Privacy?

Small Business CEO

Offices around the UK need to step up their security game, according to the most recent statistics. There has been a 145% rise in incidents of malware and DDoS attacks to commercial servers across all sectors, and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry noted that 47% of London businesses have been victim of some form of crime in the past year. Yet when it comes to both cybersecurity and physical security for offices, many employees don’t actually know what their rights are.

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