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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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Cleanup and Organize Your Workspace

Office Dynamics

Summer is a great time to do a little cleanup and organize your workspace. Business is usually a little quieter, employees take a vacation, and there seems to be a more relaxed work atmosphere. It is the perfect time for you to get organized before the craziness of business sets in this fall. Clean desks look smart, professional and, well, just organized.

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13 Ways You Should be Using Your Smartphone for Business

Tips From T. Marie

Admit it, you don’t go anywhere without your smartphone. It’s ok, the rest of us don’t either. That reason alone is incentive enough to examine just how useful your smartphone is to your business. With more of us enjoying job flexibility today, and with the probability of up to 58% of workers expected to be independent contractors by 2027 , if you’re not using your smartphone for more than texting, calls and email you should be.

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Podcast 099: The virtual team

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ? Stitcher ? Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play. You can leave a review here! This is podcast 99 and it’s about a productivity tool I call the virtual team. You assemble a virtual team with people in your life to help you be accountable. I came up with this idea for one of my clients who’s a consultant. He works for a company but doesn’t have an office there.

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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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Food Delivery Forecast to Grow Rapidly

Small Business Labs

A new research report by financial giant UBS suggests that millennials are ditching the kitchen and instead opting for food delivery in a report titled “Is the Kitchen Dead.”. The report is not available to the public and we haven't seen it. But it's nicely covered the Forbes article  Millennials Are Ordering More Food Delivery, But Are They Killing The Kitchen, Too?

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Channeling Christmas in July is a Boon for Your Career

On The Job

It's the middle of summer, and no one right now is really thinking about decorating a Christmas tree, the holiday office party or baking cookies for colleagues. That's why it's a perfect time to do so. I don't mean that you should drag out the tree and start hanging tinsel, but I do mean that it's a great time to put yourself in the holiday frame of mind.

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How to Say No in the Business World: 4 Tips

Small Business CEO

No. It’s one of the simplest words in the English language. Two letters, one syllable, incredibly commonplace. In fact, it even transcends language. Whether you’re in the jungles of South America, the city lights of Paris, or the plains of the United States, your audience knows exactly what you mean when you say no. Why, then, is it so difficult to tell someone no – particularly in the business world?

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How to shift from learning to doing 

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have to survive a tightrope balancing act when it comes to their own education. . No group of humans is hungrier for new knowledge and practical wisdom. The best entrepreneurs know how much they don’t know. They constantly seek to close that gap. . The serious, earnest entrepreneur assembles a personal MBA curriculum for themselves. Endless books.

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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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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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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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3 Changes to Boost Office Productivity

Small Business CEO

Every company wants to be profitable, and productive employees are key to that success. But how can small business leaders help their workforces become more productive? One way is to consider creating a non-sedentary workplace, which research shows can improve group performance. A study conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that when people worked on creative tasks in an environment that encouraged standing versus sitting, they increased collaboration and achieveme

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When Will New Technologies Impact Small Businesses?

Small Business CEO

Huge enterprises are already taking advantage of bleeding-edge technologies that cut costs while improving efficiency and customer happiness. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, big data processors and smart devices may seem too costly for small and mid-sized businesses, but many experts estimate that in the next couple years many once-elusive technologies will be used on a global scale.

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When Your Business Requires Heavy Machinery or Intricate Designs

Small Business CEO

Does your company require heavy machinery to do some of its commercial needs, or are there any intricate designs that are part of your product output? If so, you may need to talk to specialists in those fields to get a bulk of your orders completed on time and done to a standard of quality. That means doing some research and homework about who can provide you with those industrial services the most efficiently and on the best budget.

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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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Successful People Follow These 7 Productivity Rules

Small Business CEO

While there’s no such thing as an ideal, mold-making businessperson, successful entrepreneurs and executives share certain traits in common. Productivity is one such trait. Whether you’re doing your best to climb the corporate ladder ahead of schedule or working to turn your big idea into a big employer, you’ll find a streamlined schedule smooths the road ahead.

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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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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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