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It's Looking Like a "Swoosh" Recovery for the U.S.

Small Business Labs

It's looking much less likely the U.S. will experience a sharp, V-shaped recovery. Instead, a growing amount of data is indicating a slower, "swoosh" shaped recovery is likely. The swoosh refers to the shape of Nike's logo and indicates a recession that starts with a steep decline and is followed by a gradual recovery. According to the Wall Street Journal's Economic Forecasting Survey, 70% of economists think the recovery will be swoosh shaped.

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Ready for Anything! How to Practice Proactive Career Management (Webinar)

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of Ready for Anything! How to Practice Proactive Career Management. Date : Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Time : 11:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Mountain | 1:00 PM Central | 2:00 PM Eastern. Sign up for the Eat Your Career Newsletter to receive registration information: [link]. The working world is unpredictable.

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How the Pandemic Can Help Your Grow in Your Career

On The Job

During these months of quarantining, working from home, juggling new schedules and home situations and just trying to remember what day it is, it can be tough to think about anything good that can come from this pandemic. I'm not going to try and sugarcoat that "every cloud has its silver lining," blah, blah, blah. I don't want to offer empty platitudes that might make you feel worse.

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Rome DUI Tips: What To Do If You Get Caught Abroad

Small Business CEO

Getting charged with a Driving Under The Influence (DUI) will always face you with a lot of legal trouble and serious consequences. More so when you’ve been charged abroad. When you’re traveling abroad, this isn’t one that you’d exactly like to take home as a souvenir. In fact, it can be one of the worst news that you can ever receive.

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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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MIT Economists on the Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets

Small Business Labs

The Hamilton Project essay The Nature of Work after the COVID Crisis: Too Few Low-Wage Jobs is authored by MIT economists David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds.  The essay covers four shifts being accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on labor markets.  And, according to the authors, all four potentially have significant, negative consequences for low wage workers, economic inequality and overall employment.  The four are: 1.  Telepresence : The essay points

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Interview with Kate Smith of Juno VA

Karen Vivarelli

How Kate went from corporate PA to VA life. And how you can do it too. I first met Kate Smith, Juno VA, when she joined my VA Course in March 2020. With Kate in the UK and me in Perth, it was amazing to be able to connect from across the globe. Despite a world pandemic sweeping the world at the time the course started, Kate and the other women in the VA Course all banded together to support each other in learning something new.

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Increase Brand Awareness With These 6 Ingenious Ways

Small Business CEO

Your business faces competition from other companies in the market, and it’s your duty as a smart businessman to create a different brand that stands out. The big question is how do you increase your brand awareness? Here are six ingenious steps you can take to improve your brand image, and once you employ them, you are sure of yielding better results. 1.

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Episode 326: The Power of Process with Justin DiRose

Productivityist

On this episode I’m joined by Justin DiRose , a productivity expert and remote work consultant from northern Minnesota. He has a passion for becoming better, the distributed workforce, being a great dad and husband, and music. This episode is sponsored by TextExpander. With TextExpander, you can unlock your productivity with its many features.

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3 Biggest Mistakes Made While Writing Emails that are Simple to Solve

Jen Lawrence

Like it or not, email is still our default form of communication and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Sure, you can add in various collaboration and communication tools, but you’re not going to completely get rid of emails. So, for now, it’s our main way of working with others and unfortunately, our fast-paced world is fueling our email headaches.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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How to Sell Property Online for a Good Price

Small Business CEO

Selling your house is a big deal. Let’s be real, it’s a decision that can’t be made easily. You are selling something you once called home. It maybe took you years to decorate and make it your own cozy space, so it can take a lot of time, energy, and effort to let it go and sell it. Once you finally decide that this is something you want to do, you should consider your options and find the easiest way to sell it.

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Slack Etiquette: Become a Slack Pro in No Time

Small Business CEO

Online communication has always been an essential part of business operations. However, it became far more crucial during the last couple of months. Given the world’s current situation, many companies had to send their employees home to work remotely. With the growth of the remote work trend came the growing demand for better online communication platforms.

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8 Proven Ways to Increase Employee Productivity at work

Small Business CEO

Let’s face it: ensuring maximum employee efficiency is one of the biggest concerns of many Business owners and Managers these days. It is practically impossible to lead a team with different temperament and views and not have any clashes and miscommunication. All this hinders the efficiency of the employees. Needless to say, getting everyone on the same page is not a piece of cake.

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Seeing the Benefits of Coworking Spaces After No Choice But To Work from Home

Small Business CEO

Remote work was already a growing trend long before the COVID-19 pandemic came about and flipped the whole world upside down. When the virus changed everything, the meaning of remote work was included in those changes. It was no longer a choice whether employees could or would work from home. It simply became the only option. While plenty of people couldn’t be happier to adjust to new, remote lifestyles, for many, working from home was not a choice they ever would have wanted.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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How to Buy a Generator That’s Right for Your Business

Small Business CEO

Did you know that losing power for just one hour causes the average American commercial customer over $1,800 ? Considering that power outage in the United States lasts nearly 198 minutes, this could be a huge cost burden.s. Blackouts and power outages are often a result of a myriad of causes that range from unintended human errors to works of God. For an average business, a power loss can cripple operations and bring an enterprise to a standstill.

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Debt Financing Vs Equity Financing: Getting Your Business Off the Ground

Small Business CEO

Unless your business has a massive balance sheet, you will need financing at some point. For small businesses, you might have to choose between different financing options, keeping in mind that each of these options has its own advantages and disadvantages. Today, we are going to look at debt financing and equity financing as ways of getting your business off the ground.

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3 Ways To Grow Your Business

Small Business CEO

Over 627,000 new businesses are created each year, and only 51% of enterprises last beyond five years. Opening a business is tough, but the good news is that companies should have, on average, 15-45% year-over-year growth. Thus, it helps to know strategies that you can apply to make your business grow. photo credit: Charles Deluvio / Unsplash. Building a solid business requires accurate data to guide you in making smart decisions.

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An Overview of Key Employment Contract Issues Due to COVID  

Small Business CEO

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone and a large percentage of the workforce in the United States and lots of people have been laid off. This has contributed to an economic crisis that has only compounded the public health crisis. There have been numerous reports of furloughs, pay cuts, and even people getting laid off. In many cases, these people have been the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Episode 325: HEY! I’m Talking Email with Phil Simon

Productivityist

I wanted to talk to someone who knows communication and email to talk about that subject. So Phil Simon joined me once again to talk about email – and in particular, the new kid on the block, HEY. Relevant Links. Episode 308: Talking Slack with Phil Simon Episode 324: Let’s Zoom with Phil Simon HEY ‘The world’s greatest email app’ is a privacy nightmare | The Next Web Check out Front – my main email app Listen to Andrew Warner talk about HEY with Jason Fried Second-Order

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Digital Marketing Strategies for Rehabilitation Centers

Small Business CEO

Addiction has become such a huge problem in every country on the planet. Whether it is an alcohol or drug addiction, a gambling addiction, or an addiction to sex, reaching out and helping addicts to overcome their demons is more important now than ever. Rehabilitation centers, like every other kind of business, need to employ the right digital marketing strategy to ensure that their potential patients are aware that there is help out there.

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