Small Business Labs

APRIL 2, 2018

In 1936 George Orwell pointed out that one of the main difficulties of owning an independent bookstore is turning a profit. This, of course, was long before Amazon. But as NPR's  Why The Number Of Independent Bookstores Increased During The 'Retail Apocalypse'  reports, despite Amazon and other challenges independent bookstores are having a bit of a renaissance.  From 2009 to 2017 the number of U.S. independent bookstores increased roughly 40%.  So why is this

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On The Job

APRIL 2, 2018

Chances are pretty good that in your next job interview, you're going to hear: "So! Tell me about yourself." Interviewers love to ask this question because a) they're hoping you might slip up and tell them something really interesting, such as the fact that you've been fired from your last five jobs b) they don't really remember who you are, and this gives them time to come up with questions to ask and c) they want to see how you present yourself.

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Interviewing Collaborate Resume Skills 140

Eat Your Career

APRIL 2, 2018

The last time I worked as an Executive Assistant, it was 2007. That was just a little over 10 years ago, and yet, so much has changed in that time. Social media was just starting to take shape back then. We were all still using Blackberries and trying desperately to make them sync correctly with our computers. Faxing was still an acceptable mode of communication.

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Administrative Professionals Fax Social Media 2007 100

Small Business CEO

APRIL 2, 2018

There’s a time in every couple’s life when things move from dating to planning marriage, kids and an entire life together. Besides love and happily ever after, this step forward involves a wide series of changes in a couple’s life. Moving together means sharing not only the house but also the current expenses. Who’s paying for what could soon become a problem in a couple’s dynamic.

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Finance Expenses Management 55

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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Small Business CEO

APRIL 2, 2018

Whether you have twenty employees or a business that consists of you and only you, stress is going to happen. And, when it does, business will continue to go on. If you can’t slow down and deal with the source of the stress , it will get worse. The friction will turn into fatigue, possible illness, and then, ultimately, complete business burnout.

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Small Business CEO

APRIL 2, 2018

Since the advent of cyberspace, many human activities have changed, this modernization does not exclude the real estate business. These changes span from the availability of real estate information, how business is transacted, the bridging of the consumer-manager distance barrier and the attitudes of consumers towards the real estate industry. Time to discover those significant ways in which technology made real estate very simple.

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