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8 Fascinating Ways Genes Affect Our Careers Monday, March 22nd, 2010
We like to think of ourselves as in charge of our own destinies. The American Dream is all about being able to achieve what you are capable of — regardless of who your parents are or what they do for a living. But a new book by Professor Scott Shane argues and establishes that our genes do indeed affect our work lives. In Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders , he posits that genes have an impact on the occupations we choose, our success in those occupations, and whether we start a business.
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8 Fascinating Ways Genes Affect Our Careers
The machinery it manufactures is independent of the vagaries of style changes and consumer trends. … Globalization, outsourcing and online commerce may be considered major problems in some sectors but it is what paves the device for UPS….
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Jeff Kosnett’s Eight Best Stock Buys for 2006
Video is one of the hottest marketing tactics online today, but creating a video is intimidating for most small business owners. Pixability promises to get one done for you in just a few steps. The first step is what caught my attention: They ship you a Flip video camera by mail
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Pixability: You Have the Vision, We Have the Camera
The ranks of temporary help workers have increased for the past five months in a row, according to recently released Department of Labor figures. The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of Americans employed in temporary jobs rose 47,500 in February to 2 million—but at the same time, overall employment declined.
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Does the Rise of Temp Jobs Mean the Recession is Really Over?
The social media craze is here to stay, but for those who doubt the anecdotal evidence a boat load of statistics keeps piling up about what this stuff can mean for your business. And it’s much more than a passing fad. We’ve also got some information on alternative financing, the importance of planning your marketing campaign and how to lead and follow in our Small Business Trends business news wrap-up for March 18.
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Small Business News: Crazy for Social Media
This decline is attributable to lower dividends paid by private equity funds and shareholdings in line with the general market trend. ..
Red Bridge Strategy Announces Global Legal Process Management Boot Camp Thursday, March 18th, 2010Organizations considering offshore LPO need to understand when outsourcing is appropriate, what globalized processes can provide, who the credible vendors are, a nd how to structure engagements. …
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Red Bridge Strategy Announces Global Legal Process Management Boot Camp
Last Tuesday, Google announced that its Google App Marketplace was open for business , making it possible for users to find, use and even sell third-party applications. But what does that really mean and how can SMB owners take advantage of it?
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Getting To Know The Google Apps Marketplace
Watch today’s small business news with important details on tax time, innovative marketing tips and startup primers. It’s time for the small business roundup chock full of helpful information for the small business community collected by the Small Business Trends team. Read and enjoy! Startup Want a to-do list to stick on the refrigerator for your startup
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Small Business News March 17
Another year ends today, another year begins tomorrow. As your New Year’s resolutions begin to form, don’t forget how much nearly every decision affects your career as a work-from-home, self-employed, freelancing, independent contractor. Take a look at some bad habits and poor decisions you might have made in 2009 to help you determine the tone …
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Bad Freelance Habits: Say Goodbye to the Old You
Start the new year off right with a clear vision for a successful year in 2010 by putting your goals into a mission statement–or even a brief mantra, à la Guy Kawasaki (see our Recommended Reading List below). By articulating your purpose, putting it in writing, and returning to it when making big …
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2010 Goals: A Freelancing Mission Statement
Everybody’s Doing It Sooner or later nearly every freelance writer comes across the opportunity to ghostwrite – and no, we aren’t talking about writing scary novels or typing while hearing creepy noises in the background. Ghostwriting is a tricky activity, otherwise known as getting paid write under someone else’s name.
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Freelance Ghostwriting: Is It Ethical?
As we usher in 2010, the blogosphere – including Endgadget, Techland and Geek.com — is abuzz around Google’s Android-based Nexus One. So, it seems like a fitting cue to take a look at the smartphone OS market, consider some of the newest data rolling in from 2009, and consider how the market might impact freelance …
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A Developer-Centric Look at the Smartphone OS Market
From what I’ve been hearing, a sizable number of folks are looking forward to 2010 — operating on the theory that, at this point, there’s pretty much nowhere to go but up. Given how much of the U.S. economy’s unexpected third quarter growth in 2009 was fueled by the Cash for Clunkers program (no pun intended), it’s an open question as to whether we can expect continued growth from the fourth quarter
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Top Microbusiness Opportunities for 2010
Another week brings some more troubling news for small business owners and the state of their Google Local Business listings. There are two somewhat concerning stories that have sprung up as of late that you should be aware of. If only so you can make sure you haven’t been affected
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More Trouble In Google’s Local Biz Center
The Best Is Yet To Come Wake up, world, to today’s way of doing business. This is no time to hide behind a rock and think you have every good reason not to produce results in 2010. Guess again
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10 Predictions, Forecasts and Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010
I invite you to join me on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 for a free 1-hour webinar: 10 Tips to give a Boost to your website and online marketing. You will get 10 practical, concrete steps you can take to improve your website, draw in more visitors, and convert those visitors into customers. I’ll be hosting the webinar
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10 Tips to Boost Your Online Marketing and Website – Join Me
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Software Engineering: The Sociology of Software Project Failure Monday, January 11th, 2010To take this one step further, the software industry has been a disaster for societies in general despite the common efficiencies it has fostered such as t he word-processor. …
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Software Engineering: The Sociology of Software Project Failure
It seems like every week there’s another story about a small business owner who’s been ripped off by someone they trusted with their hard earned cash. Just last week, my plumber said he was probably going to file for bankruptcy because his trusted office manager took off with $60k of the company’s funds. Red alert folks! You must have controls in place in your business to protect what you have worked so hard to achieve
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Protect Your Cash or Lose Your Business
Contests can be a great way to get recognition for your small business in addition to the big prizes. Check deadlines closely. Our latest list of competitions and awards for entrepreneurs includes an extended deadline and several that are ending in January 2010.
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Competitions and Contests for Entrepreneurs
Shame on me. I must have been the only person that had not heard of Gary Vaynerchuk until Dan Schawbel wrote about him in his issue of Personal Branding Magazine
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Review of Crush It!: Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion
We are pleased to announce our best Providers for November 2009! We have over 350,000 Providers on oDesk, but these ones stood out as the cream of the crop this month, as they performed the most hours of work with the highest feedback rating. They have been given special badges …
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Congratulations to our Top 25 Providers for November 2009!
Announced today, oDesk Staffing gives U.S.-based freelancers access to group health coverage options, retirement plans and education savings accounts, in addition to the automatic billing and guaranteed payment enjoyed by all oDesk users. The new service also lets businesses take advantage of oDesk’s guaranteed accurate billing and overall savings on …
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The Benefits of Full-Time Work, The Flexibility of Freelancing
With the deadline for oDesk’s Haiku Contest (you can win a Kindle!) winding down, we thought it might be fun to throw out some haiku samples to get your creative juices flowing. Remember, all you need is three lines–5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. No rhyming required! Note: Your entries must be …
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Work From Home Tuesday: Haiku Contest Countdown
If you’re planning on getting out of town for the holidays, then you may want to consider some of these technologies to help keep your important data with you while you travel. Holiday travel is unpredictable – don’t get stranded without your work! Keep it Simple There are two rather low-tech solutions that …
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Holiday Travel: Stay Connected with Remote Access Tech
Each month we like to highlight 4 providers who’ve received exemplary feedback. Great job Adriana, Wojciech, Janet and Roman — you’ve earned this! Adriana A Project manager | Web dev & Web designer | WordPress, WPMU & PHP dev Total oDesk Hours: 178 Overall Feedback: 4.98 (Based on 9 feedbacks) Comments: She was great throughout …
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Spotlight Providers (December 2009)