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The Predictions for Small Business Saturday 2023 Are In—Here’s How to Optimize Them for Your Business

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Consider looking to contractors, temps or other nontraditional employees to ensure you can optimize the day’s profit potential. She’s also turning to ManyChat this year, a social media tool to quickly respond and reply to each comment to send them a direct link to buy a product.

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Google's Shadow Workforce

Small Business Labs

Bloomberg's Inside Google's Shadow Workforce covers the use by Google of what they call TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors" According to the article about half of Google's workforce is comprised of TVCs.    We've recently covered a number of studies confirming this.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

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Subsequently, he temped as an illustrator for a big ad agency, where he learned early versions of Flash and code-based animation. “I Now he tapped Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti, who’d also been a student of virality, and together they raised funding for Star.Me , a sticker-based, social media-linked game. No problem.

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Word of Mouth is How Freelancers Find Jobs

Small Business Labs

It's not surprising that independent workers (freelancers, temps, self-employed, etc.)    Social media was distant 4th, with only 3%. But this understates the role of social media. rely on word of mouth/referrals for getting business.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

Social and Social Media.   Social Media Moves to the Small Business Mainstream:  Despite the hype, the vast majority of small businesses haven't used social media on a regular basis for business purposes.   New localism was on our list last year. 

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What can we learn from watching the Crystal Ball?

Job Advice Blog

Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. They also need to learn how to benefit from the fast-evolving social media. Most of them are expressing the negativity that currently exists in the labor market. It mentions also that 26% of working Americans have “non-standard” jobs.

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary. The latest data show that there is an ongoing loss of full-time and permanent jobs. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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