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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

  We expect this form of “mobile commerce” will take off in 2013 as personal service firms, retailers of all kinds and even industrial firms take advantage of the lower costs, increased flexibility and high levels of customer satisfaction that mobile business provides.    5. . 

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Is the U.S. Becoming Less Entrepreneurial?

Small Business Labs

But in many cases they use contractors, freelancers, outsourced services and other forms of contingent workers instead of traditional employees.  There are simply too many people participating in online commerce sites like Etsy, Airbnb, Elance, oDesk, Uber for this not to be true. micropreneurs is growing. Nor are the roughly 1.6

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Your online Business Development System: The Blog Transmitter

BioTeams

I have a controversial view on email - I believe that personalised email is fine but bulk email management and email newsletter systems have probably reached the end of their useful lives for most small businesses. Don't restrict yourself to the written word - exploit all forms of multimedia - particularly the video channel.

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Six Ways to Get More Juice from Your Freelancer | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way. Three Steps to Being a Successful Entrepreneur Reply Manav July 9, 2010 at 3:59 am Well written and comprehensively covers the softer aspects of managing freelancers. Do use sites like Elance.

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