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Small Businesses Worried About Corporate Concentration - and Especially Amazon

Small Business Labs

Big companies, in general, also came in 2nd and supplier mergers and concentration came in 5th.  It's important to note that retail small businesses, who are in competition with Amazon, are heavily overweighted in the survey sample (it was a non-probability sample).  

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Resources And Tips To Harness The Power Of Interior Design For Environmental Impact — And Employee Retention

Allwork

There is a big push in the industry to achieve a higher level of transparency when it comes to the materials and suppliers that we work with. One small “behind-the-scenes” move that translates into a collective big move is choosing to source samples from groups like Material Bank. All cultures have nature!

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Early detection of COVID-19 in the workplace

Workplace Insight

A Thermo Fisher Scientific manufacturing site in Erlangen, Germany, has managed to avoid this situation, thanks largely to the installation of air sampling equipment that flags any positive cases in its vicinity. If the sample comes back positive, managers can assess the risk and decide what precautions should be taken. Newman, C.M.,

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Logovisual feature-packed mobile walls designed to divide and connect

Workplace Insight

You aren’t tied to one size, system or supplier. The Stor is useful for holding books, files and samples or coats, bags, helmets and more. The ThinkingWall Stor takes the Divider and makes full use of the space between the two whiteboard surfaces.

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20 questions to ask before you book a venue

Practically Perfect PA

Does the venue have a list of required suppliers? Do we have to use the venue’s suppliers? Can we sample the menu prior to the event? How much is the deposit? Has the venue ever had an event like yours before? Does the venue have on site catering? If so, what are the costs? Are there minimum food and drink numbers?

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Assistants! Get the most out of attending an event

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve said in the past training, networking and meeting suppliers should be an integral part of our career. Having attended quite a few events on my own in the past having someone there did make it easier to stop and look at the stands, enjoy the presentations, sample the food and chat with other attendees.

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Clever Marketing by Kitchen Table Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

With a borrowed £400 and home PC a lot of determination and hard work and testing the blend on willing testers we began putting samples out to studios in the UK. In the early days we lived off soup, (I now make great soup), so we could post out samples, turning back all money made into the company. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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