Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Last week, MBO Partners released its 10th annual report in the MBO Partners State of Independence research series. Emergent Research (that's us) worked with MBO Partners on this ongoing study across all 10 years. The research was based on surveys of over 23,000 independent workers, gig workers, and micro-business owners and was augmented by 1,500 in-person interviews throughout the decade.  Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be highlighting some of the key findings and insights f

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 10, 2020

What support do you need from your Executive to work in partnership? What support do you need from your Executive to work in partnership? This will ultimately be something that is personal to you but I wanted to share what I thought were 10 expectations that Assistants should have from [.].

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Tips From T. Marie

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Well, here we are again. At the end of another year. Normally I’d be writing about yearly accomplishments and setting goals for the new year. But 2020 has been as far from a normal year as you can get. So, there will be no ‘normal’ year end post. Instead, I would like to share a few lessons I believe are a gift from 2020. LIVING TO WORK IS WRONG. So many of us, particularly here in the United States, have made work the number one priority in our lives.

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Eat Your Career

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “Secrets to Achieving Work/Life Harmony.” Webinar Description: You have a “professional” life and a “personal” life, right? But ultimately, it’s all just life, isn’t it? So, how do you balance it all? How do you make sure one side isn’t getting all the attention while the other side suffers?

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Andrea Kalli

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It’s the end of 2020, and I’m just getting into creating more and more vertical and square videos for people. So I decided it was time for me to explore deeper into how clients can take their newly minted vertical or square video, upload them to YouTube for the exposure benefits, and utilize the YouTube embed code for placing the video onto their website page or blog post.

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the past few years, the number of online businesses has increased dramatically, and because of the coronavirus crisis, it is expected to rise even more in the coming months. The competition in the online business world is getting tougher with every passing day. If you want your business to stand out, you will have to use different marketing methods to reach out to your audience and will also have to improve the quality of your SEO.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Assistants and the #Metoo Movement I'm Bonnie Low-Kramen. I'm the author of Be The Ultimate Assistant. I'm a speaker and a trainer, and most of all, I am a human, who cares deeply about this issue, this global epidemic, that is sexual harassment. My goal for [.].

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 11, 2020

First of all, people would take way more care about their opinions. Instead of keeping them unchanged for years, they might check them out at least weekly. “Hm, I feel a little bit triggered today, let’s check on my opinions down there, I might have gotten some opinion chlamydia and I’m not even aware of. Read more. The post The World Might Be A Better Place If Everyone Would Treat Their Opinions As They Treat Their Dicks appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. And we have to keep our executives organized, too. With so much to keep in order, it’s easy to neglect one vitally important area that requires a great deal of organization: our careers. Protect Your Admin Career.

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Recruit CRM

DECEMBER 22, 2020

You've always heard from your hiring manager how Decembers can be less hectic and 'tis the season when recruitment is slow. Indeed, these are true. Christmas and New Years are usually less busy for the recruitment and staffing industry but apart from re-evaluating your current work scenario and life situations, recruiters must also consider this time to be a golden opportunity.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Business networking is something that many professionals avoid wherever possible at the best of times. And it appears many of us have become even more accustomed to the antisocial life under lockdown this year, hiding away even from Zoom calls and group chats. But 2021 will be a crucial year for business, one that means cutting corners and missing opportunities isn’t an option.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Despite trade wars, tariffs, and the erection of other barriers to cross-border commerce, the past decade has seen a substantial increase in the number of U.S. microbusinesses and freelancers who export goods and services. As the chart below (click to enlarge) from the MBO Partners State of Independence study series shows, the share of independent workers (freelancers, independent contractors and other microbusinesses) providing goods and services to customers outside the U.S. more than doubled

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Bonnie Low Kramen

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Bonnie Low-Kramen | December 29, 2020. “The most important thing we can do before we die…is live.” Simon Sinek. We will all re member 2020 as the year that got put on “hold.” We had whiplash as assistants the world over had what felt like five minutes notice that their world was turning upside down. As we tried to catch our breath, by May we settled into working from home in the new “abnormal,” aka WFH.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This was a good year. Different, for sure, but it was a good one. In fact, it was so good that I felt compelled to write a review of it, something that I didn’t do in other recent years. So, without further ado, let’s see what went well, what went not so well and what. Read more. The post 2020 In Review appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Requesting Training and Professional Development Support from Your Employer. Professional development is essential for every admin, regardless of experience. But when that training comes with a large price tag, it’s often out of reach. The solution? Asking your employer to make an investment in you. This investment can take on many forms. It can be reimbursement for a webinar, registration for a professional development conference, or even subsidizing a course at your local community college.

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Recruit CRM

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Studies have time and again shown that companies promote their employees based on what they have previously done, rather than what they can do. Promotions are still largely based on an employee's past performance and that organizations continue to assume the attributes that have made someone successful so far will continue to make them successful in the future (even if their responsibilities change within the organization).

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 9, 2020

More and more contemporary people are nowadays complaining about problems with sleeping, the feeling of exhaustion. These problems are experienced even by the young people who study at schools and colleges. What are the reasons for this phenomenon, and how to overcome this problem? Let us figure this out. photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels. Defining Reasons for Exhaustion.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One of the clearest findings of the decade-long MBO Partners State of Independence study is full-time Independent workers (freelancers, independent contractors, the self-employed) consistently report that they believe they're happier and healthier because they are independent workers. In 2020, 83 percent of full-time independents said they are "happier working on my own," and 71 percent said that "working on my own is better for my health." These results are not surprising.

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C-Suite Assistants

DECEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 changed the business environment as much as any other aspect of everyday life. With more employees working from home, and less facetime with your executives, improving your executive assistant skills presents more challenges than ever. The work from home (WFH) trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing, either. As much as half of America’s population moved to a telecommuting role during the pandemic.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A few months ago I posted something about learning to play the guitar. It was on June 18th 2020. In all honesty, I didn’t start on that day, because I decided to first go on Camino de Santiago (which, in hindsight, proved to be a very good decision). But a few days after I returned. Read more. The post Learning To Play The Guitar – 4 Months Later appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“What do you like to do in your spare time?”. It’s a question that’s asked in nearly every job interview, networking event, and social setting. And it’s also a question that many of us stumble on. Spare time? That’s difficult to come by as an admin. Between our families and our careers, carving out a chunk of time just for us can seem nearly impossible.

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Recruit CRM

DECEMBER 12, 2020

From helping in smoothening out the entire recruiting process to job advertisements and candidate interviews, an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is definitely a boon for Talent Acquisition professionals. If a recruiter has never used an ATS before, the entire process of choosing an ATS can be daunting, because he/she will probably be unable to shortlist what are the features they want to look at.

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 11, 2020

E-commerce websites are a hub of information, info about pricing, available products, and the stock that a retailer has, etc. To competing vendors, this information is vital. Thus, web scraping tools exist. But e-commerce websites, having also recognized the importance of data stored in their servers, have come up with anti-scraping tools to thwart the extraction of data from their websites.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The magazine Marie Claire was first published in 1937 and describes itself as "the site that women turn to for information on fashion, style, hairstyles, beauty, women's issues, careers, health, and relationships."   The magazine has long targeted working women , so it's not surprising they are covering freelancing. But what's a bit surprising is the extent they are covering it.  Marie Claire is currently featuring a multi-article Guide to Going Freelance as

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The Marq

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It’s been an educational & enjoyable year of reading books and blogs, as well as listening to new podcasts. It's been especially helpful, a relieving distraction, from all that's been in the news. In fact, I've learned how to better cope with the turmoil in US Politics as well as the COVID pandemic as a result of my reading. I've broken down my favorites into some categories: This Year’s Favorite Books New to me Blogs, Podcasts Ideas and Questions that Made me Pause The Learning Tree: Books,

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The global marketing agency Wunderman Thompson's article Ghost Kitchens covers the growing popularity of delivery-first dining and the related growth of ghost kitchens, which are also called cloud kitchens. Ghost restaurants are delivery only, online restaurants that skip storefronts and deliver food straight to the customer.  And one reason we're covering this topic is yesterday the food delivery firm Door Dash went public in spectacular fashion , ending the day worth a stunning $

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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 Labs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The interest and investments in vertical and indoor farms has been growing steadily for several  years. This is due to the advantages of indoor farming. By taking plants out of their outdoor environments and moving them inside to a controlled environment you can eliminate the problems associated with drought, pests, weeds and extreme weather. You can also locate farms closer to urban areas, which means fresher produce for consumers and lower transportation costs.  But COVID-19 has ad

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the recent election, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 22. The passage of Prop 22 means that firms like Uber and Lyft can legally classify their drivers as contractors instead of employees.  And it has also effectively created a new, 3rd way to classify workers. The reason is Prop 22 requires firms like Uber and Lyft to provide their drivers with benefits not normally given to independent contractors.  Other countries have long had third ways to classify workers.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 20, 2020

We'll be back next week.

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you want your Instagram account to grow quickly and generate more leads and sales, you should create more videos. Videos generate more attention than other types of content as they move in the feed. People’s eyes are naturally drawn to them. Creating videos for Instagram might seem like a colossal task. This is why I have shared some tips on video creation and other strategies that will simplify the process and help you grow your account quickly… Create videos that are a few seconds lon

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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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