Small Business Labs

MARCH 1, 2021

Both of the partners at Emergent Research started their careers as economists, specifically energy economists. So we've followed the Texas power outages and think just as the pandemic has accelerated digitalization and remote work trends, the Texas outage has accelerated existing trends driving the growth of microgrids and distributed power. Microgrids are localized power generation grids that can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously.   Natural gas, propa

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2021

Powerful words to use in your Assistant CV The competition for Executive and Personal Assistant jobs is fierce. Now more than ever. That is why it is important to make your CV (or resume) stand out from the crowd. To do that, you have to make your CV come to [.].

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 5, 2021

Reliant Energy Plans is the best plan of electric capacity to the people groups’ fulfilment. Energy is generally potentially the fundamental endowments that science has determined to mankind. Energy has become a piece of present-day life and one can’t think about existence and the world without it. Force has various applications in our regular daily existence.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 2, 2021

As a career-minded professional, you probably participate in a lot of development activities. Perhaps you attend training webinars and online classes; maybe you read books and listen to podcasts. Learning opportunities are prevalent, and you want to take advantage of them all! But how do you make sure you’re using your limited time and resources wisely?

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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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Small Business Labs

MARCH 2, 2021

Fortune's LinkedIn’s new Marketplaces will help freelancers find work covers a new online freelance talent marketplace being developed by LinkedIn. Like other online freelance talent marketplaces such as Fiverr and Upwork, Marketplaces will enable businesses to find, hire, and pay freelancers. According to the article: Marketplaces, which is supposed to launch in September, will focus on white-collar jobs in fields like design, marketing, and software development.

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Brilliantly Better

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

And not necessarily of who you are. Because that counts, you know. Where you are is just as important, or, sometimes, even more important than your amount of knowledge, your experience, your skills or your connections. The “simple” context in which you play infuences the game in ways that are not negligible. Here are 3. Read more. The post Geo-arbitrage, Or How To Get The Most Of Where You Are appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 1, 2021

If you want to accelerate your business in the digital world, having a quality product isn’t just enough to get buyers that will last you long. The opener in every successful entrepreneur that’s been flourishing in e-commerce is marketing. One of the core foundations of making yours successful is getting involved with your potential customers until you get them.

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Go Burrows

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Dayne Shuda has worked with executive assistants for about 7-8 years and has had a full-time remote assistant since 2015. His assistant happens to be in Australia, but he’s in Wisconsin. Over the years, he’s learned a few things about organization, burnout, and working with a remote team. In this episode, Dayne shares tips on written communication, working with a remote assistant on the other side of the world, and how assistants can anticipate the needs of their executive.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 5, 2021

It’s a lazy Saturday morning in my childhood city, somewhere in the middle of Romania, close to the mountains. I’m just a teenager, going to meet my buddies for our regular soccer game at the end of the week. As I prepare to cross the street, I suddenly spot Emil, coming from my left, and. Read more. The post The Big Reset Already Happened – It’s Called “The Internet” appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Productivityist

MARCH 3, 2021

Cal Newport is back on the show to uncover his magnum opus on why we work the way we work today, and why we need to change our relationship with email. This episode is sponsored by Green Chef. Green Chef is the first USDA-certified organic meal kit company. Ingredients come pre-measured, perfectly portioned, and mostly prepped, so you can spend less time stressing and more time enjoying delicious, home-cooked meals.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

CRM (or customer relationship management) tools are a mainstay of modern business practice – an essential component for keeping customers happy. Yet, there are still many companies out there that are not using them. And this is a problem. Those that aren’t engaging with CRM software are missing a simple and affordable trick to improve their customers’ experience and grow their brand.

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Worxbee

MARCH 1, 2021

One of the most common questions when working with a virtual executive assistant is “What can I give them to do?”. If you’ve been working on your own for quite a while, it’s often difficult to conceive that yes, you can delegate many tasks. Doing so will enable you to be more efficient and focused on key tasks. Fortunately, executive assistants arrive highly competent and capable of tackling even some of the more tricky tasks you may have.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 1, 2021

I don’t know about you, but for me Mondays have always been a bit… peculiar. I know there’s noting intrinsically wrong with them, and it’s all because we chose this circaseptan rhythm, which is arbitrary. It could have been a 3 days “week”, or 12 days one, but it just so happens that we chose. Read more. The post Monday Moving Forward – Limit To 3 Main Tasks appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A common recruiter’s rule is to have interaction with hundreds and thousands of job seekers a year. Recruiting is similar to a batting average in baseball. Unfortunately, success is decided by failing even more than winning. It's in a recruiter's capacity to recognize what a horrific interview seems like, and ways via which it can be prevented. If one's an average job seeker, the possibilities are that they're just interviewing a few times in a year.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 4, 2021

2021 is when the world slowly recovers from the damage done by COVID-19. Businesses that have been affected by the lockdowns and changed scenarios need to refocus on marketing. With more people working from home, digital forms of marketing are more likely to succeed. One of the trusted ways of online marketing, namely email marketing is likely to be used more often.

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Brilliantly Better

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This is my second monthly checkpoint for the 365 days writing challenge I started this year. I showed up every day in February too, so, up until now, I can safely say the challenge is going ok. Today included, I published a post every day for the first 59 days of 2021, which leaves 306. Read more. The post 365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Two appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 2, 2021

Attachment theory is a psychological approach to emotional development, based broadly on the type of connections we have early on in life with our caregivers. Depending on which book you read, you may get up to 6 types of different attachment types, but the most important ones are: secure attachment, anxious attachment and avoidant attachment. Read more.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 3, 2021

Or how to have a little bit of fun on a Saturday morning. Now, really, this is a funny story and I honestly don’t know what other meaning can I derive from it, other than well, being funny. But since it’s still a story, and I’m on a writing challenge, iI thought to write about. Read more. The post My (First) Audition As A Guitar Player appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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Small Business CEO

MARCH 2, 2021

QuickBooks is one of the most popular software products and has been used by thousands of businesses to automate their accounting operations. There used to be a time when companies refused to look beyond QuickBooks. This has changed now. Companies are now looking at cloud financial services as an option and are ready to ditch QuickBooks. Why is it that companies are willing to ditch an accounting tool that was used to be their prime choice?

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 5, 2021

Want to craft the perfect email newsletter your clients will actually read? For tips and tricks, read our guide to learn how! About 80% of adults use email. In fact, the 3.8 billion email users around the world make up about 50% of the world population. Email marketing can even improve your ROI. For every $1 you spend, you can average a return of $44!

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 4, 2021

The current health crisis took the world by surprise. Less than two years ago, it was hard to imagine that some virus can spread all over the globe, changing the lives of millions of people. The level of disaster preparedness had been shallow, and, naturally, a public health system collapsed. But, today, the lesson is learned, so it’s time to improve our ability to deal with similar situations. photo credit: Unsplash.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 1, 2021

Cybersecurity threats have been around since the internet was first launched but they’re far more sophisticated than they once were. Small businesses represent a lucrative opportunity for hackers, as their systems are usually relatively easy to gain access to. If you want to protect your company and your customers, take a look at the three cybersecurity threats you need to look out for in 2021: 1.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 2, 2021

While you might think a personal injury lawyer would take on any case involving personal injury, that’s not the reality. There are a few reasons they might turn down a case as there are certain criteria that must be met. This type of attorney, as defined on The Balance Careers , is a professional who assists people who have been hurt mentally or physically by a third party due to negligence or an intentional act.

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Small Business CEO

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

With massive technological advancements always coming thick and fast, we can expect more incredible things every day. When we think about the future of technology, we often think about robots. Whilst we might not have flying cars yet, there’s definitely a future for robots within business. photo credit: YouTube. With the long term worry that the advancement of robots will mean a loss of jobs for human beings, many companies are developing collaborative robots (or “cobots”) designed to work along

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 4, 2021

One of the notable financial investments an individual can have is owning a house. The idea of owning a home sounds exciting, but wait until you get to see the responsibilities of owning one. Being a homeowner offers tremendous fulfillment but involves a great deal of work. Investing in a house requires you to make sure that you’re doing the proper maintenance and that you’re keeping it as up-to-date as possible.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 4, 2021

Let’s start by saying that I’m an admirer of the blockchain technology and a very early observer of it. Please note I said “early observer”, and not necessarily “early adopter” When it comes to blockchain, I’m more of a “just in time adopter”, to be honest, and not an early one, because, sometimes, early success.

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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!

Collaborate

Small Business CEO

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The vendor risk landscape has evolved rapidly over the last few decades, with third-party relationship risk management becoming more and more difficult to manage as technology advances and the supply chain evolves into more of a supply web encircling the globe. A failure in one area of the web could mean failures all over the web, as happened when, in 2011, a tsunami devastated Japan and seriously rattled the global supply chain.

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