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Business2Community
Small business is booming thanks to government programs, supply and demand, and modern workers seeking flexibility in response to a rigid 40-hour workweek. As a small business owner, you'll work closely with your employees and therefore will need to create strong relationships and positive workplace culture to ensure success. The tips below will get you started on how you can continue to be the best small business manager, and how to motivate your employees to achieve long-term success.
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The Story Exchange
Holiday sales are expected to grow, so be prepared. If you're planning to take a vacation or travel to see family at holiday time, it's a good idea to book now. But even more important, if the holiday season is an important sales period for your business, now is the time to get started. It's predicted that holiday sales are expected to grow 3.7% over last year and, for the first time, reach $1 trillion.
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Harvard Business Review
Algorithms are becoming increasingly relevant in the workplace. From sifting through resumes to deciding who gets a raise, many of these new systems are proving to be highly valuable. But perhaps their most impressive, and relevant, capability is predicting which employees will quit. IBM is in the process of patenting an algorithm that can supposedly predict flight risk with 95% accuracy. Given that we are in a candidate-driven market, this is a significant innovation. There are now more job openings in the U.S. than there are unemployed Americans.
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Opportunity knocks with TWO new delicious snacks from Little Debbie® Vending brand Fieldstone® Bakery. The Frosted Mini Donut (6ct) is a bite-sized dunkable treat and the Cosmo Blast Brownie is 4 ounces of dark, chewy brownie topped with fudge icing and colorful candy coated pieces. Order samples by clicking here. |
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Forbes
You need more clients. You need to raise your prices. You need to market on social media. You need a passive income product. You need Facebook ads! No, no, no. If you're struggling with your business these aren't solutions, they are band aids that are failing to solve a singular, much larger problem. There is something else that is fundamentally flawed in your business, something that nobody else is talking about, and all the branding and social media in the world aren't going to do anything for your business unless you fix this first.
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AZ Big Media
As a small business, you don't have the biggest marketing budget in the world — investing in TV adverts, billboard exposure and direct mail can add up pretty quickly, can't it? Fortunately, there is a way to spread the word about your startup company without breaking the bank — that being to embrace the wonders of the Internet. By going down this route when it comes to your advertising endeavors, there's no telling how much money you could save or how many new customers you could reach.
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Inc.
High-performers often experience tunnel vision when it comes to their professional development. They long to learn, grow their expertise and climb the ladder in their careers. But something is often overlooked, and that's the importance of implementing personal development as a means of developing professionally. In fact, personal development is essential to the highest levels of professional development.
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Forbes
Small business owners often find themselves stretched too thin and struggling to keep up with the rapidly growing demands of their businesses. Here are a few real working strategies on how to streamline your organization's processes and manage your time effectively.
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 During the last 25 years, I've spoken to thousands of employees and leaders in organizations about what makes them happy and able to do their best work. It's not uncommon for people in leadership to be disconnected from their employees and not really know what makes them happy and able to do their best work. What are some of the indicators that employees are happy, invested and like coming to work? Based on research, observation and hundreds of interviews and focus groups, here are 10 observable dynamics amongst employees.
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Small Business Trends
At the beginning of the year, you set targets and goals for your business’s revenue. As the year's progressed, however, you've noticed that you haven't quite hit those numbers — and you want to turn it around before the end of Q4.
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Daily Coffee News
Nearly a year ago, as the current coffee price crisis was becoming painfully apparent to the industry at large, Daily Coffee News published "A New World Coffee Order." Written by Luis, the article called for different coffee value chain players to rethink their roles on how they can develop and better distribute value.
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HealthDay News via WebMD
To the many ways in which coffee seems to confer unexpected health benefits, add a lowered risk of painful gallstones. After tracking nearly 105,000 Danes for an average of eight years, researchers found that those who downed more than six cups per day of the world's most popular beverage saw their gallstone risk drop by 23%.
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Medical News Today
A recent small scale study looks for differences in connectivity in the brains of people who drink tea regularly and those who rarely drink tea. The findings seem encouraging, but much more work is needed. Spending just a few moments searching the internet for the health benefits of tea produces hundreds of supposed benefits. However, despite people's commonly held beliefs that tea can heal all ills, finding substantial evidence to back up these claims is more challenging. This is especially true when searching for tea's benefits on brain health.
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Vending Times
According to the International Coffee Organization's August 2019 market report, the monthly average of the ICO composite indicator fell 6.7% since July to 96.07 U.S. cents per pound. 13.6% decline from 111.21 U.S. dollars per pound since the start of the coffee year in October 2018.
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Medical Daily
You should not ignore those flowering plants that grow in your lawn or garden every spring. Despite being a stubborn weed, dandelions offer a number of health benefits that you can enjoy by simply making a tea. You can use almost every part of the plant. You can use dandelion greens as a garnish or for your sauce or boil its roots, stems and flowers for a hot and healthy tea. You can easily make a dandelion tea by boiling one tablespoon of the stems or flowers in five ounces of water for 30 minutes. Organic dandelion tea bags are also in some food or medical stores.
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Food Business News
Honest Tea is expanding into the coffee category with the launch of Honest Cold Brew Coffee. Featuring organic and Fair Trade certified coffee and cane sugar, the bottled beverages are available in three varieties: unsweetened, Cubano and mocha. The lightly sweetened varieties contain 50% less sugar than the leading sweetened ready-to-drink coffee, according to the company.
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Food & Wine
Jelisa Castrodale, a contributor for Food & Wine, writes: "A couple of weekends ago, I was scrolling through the Dateline NBC online store because I am obviously very cool and that's what cool people do at 9:30 on a Friday night. As I was seriously debating whether I needed a blanket or a Christmas ornament screenprinted with a photo of all five correspondents (or both), I noticed an entire section of the store dedicated to PopSockets."
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Legal Reader
Using CBD-infused products is becoming a hit for some people nowadays. Coffee, one of the most common beverages that people are consuming, is now also infused with CBD. If you want to know more about CBD-infused products, you can go to CBDforsure and educate yourself about CBD. CBD-infused products are said to have benefits to the human body, so some people are trying to add it to food or drink that they consume. However, it is essential that you are aware of what you are consuming, whether the benefits of it are real or produced by the playful minds of people.
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oodBev Media
Keurig Dr Pepper has launched a new line of coffee makers under the name K-Duo, referring to its dual-function ability to brew a single cup, as well as a carafe of drip coffee. The K-Duo portfolio offers three models which all combine single-serve and carafe brewing experiences into one coffee maker, a first for the Keurig brand. A single cup can be brewed using K-Cup pods, while a carafe can be made with the consumer's choice of coffee grounds.
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The CEO Magazine
Corporate social responsibility has become a key pillar for any large organisation. While you may question the true motives of some, there's no doubt that good comes of it, especially to the beneficiaries. In most cases, businesses are sincere about their CSR intentions. In the 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report by Deloitte, the CEOs surveyed cited impact on society, including income inequality, diversity and the environment, as their most important measure of success in 2019.
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UConn Today
If a company wants a leader who is committed to corporate social responsibility, it would be wise to hire a married man. Married men in the top leadership jobs typically have greater concern for their employees' well-being, and are more accepting of diverse employees, than are their non-married peers. Those are the findings of a study led by the University of Connecticut and University of Saskatchewan and published in the Journal of Corporate Finance.
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NPR
Recently, many of the nation's most powerful businesspeople released a statement, declaring that Corporate America isn't just about profits for shareholders anymore. Instead, they wrote, companies will focus on "delivering value to our customers," "investing in our employees," "dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers," and "supporting the communities in which we work." Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, and almost 200 other CEOs, from Chevron to Citigroup, all signed.
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