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By Betty Boyd
 In today's current work environment, soft skills are losing to the role of technology. With smartphones, tablets and all forms of social media, soft skills can get lost in the shuffle. What exactly are soft skills? They are attributes that will help you in both business and in life. It all starts with communication. Because we depend upon our mobile devices for communication, having a conversation with someone in person is becoming a thing of the past.
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NASE
As back to school season approaches and college students across the country prepare to pay steep college tuition fees, the National Association for the Self-Employed, the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-business community, recently announced the awarding of $12,000 in educational scholarships to four dependents of current NASE members.
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Harvard Business Review
In the near future, three of the most studied generations will converge on the workplace at the same time: Generation X, the age cohort born before the 1980s but after the baby boomers; Generation Y or millennials, typically thought of as those born between 1984 and 1996; and Generation Z, those born after 1997, who are next to enter the workforce. In a survey of 18,000 professionals and students across these three generations from 19 countries, we found some important differences in their aspirations and values. We hope that results from this survey, conducted by the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, Universum and the HEAD Foundation, will be useful to companies seeking to retain, develop and attract employees from these talent pools.
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PCMag
Chatbots are everywhere in 2017. You can find thousands of them in Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, in Slack and Skype and embedded as automated conversational experiences within countless other apps and services we use every day.
Chatbots are exactly what they sound like: a chat with a bot. It's a form of conversational artificial intelligence in which a user interacts with a virtual agent through natural language messaging.
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Entrepreneur
In the 1970s, if you wanted to know what sector was hot, all you had to do was go to the mall and see what businesses had the most customers. Nowadays, with an economy increasingly driven by the internet, all you have to do is look at what web professional are working on to know what small businesses are thriving.
According to an Evans Data study of web developers and designers commissioned by GoDaddy, consumer-centric markets for retail, travel, health and fitness are driving web pro growth today.
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By Fred Berns
 If you're looking to propel your profits this fall, add some power to your promotion. You don't need to spend a lot of time and money to attract much more recognition — and business — in the months ahead. Simply think big, communicate with confidence, and build and reach out to your base — just like the marketing champions do. Follow this "champion's checklist," and you'll economically and efficiently make a big marketing impact.
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TGDaily
Cloud computing has revolutionized the whole business world with its benefits. Businesses irrespective of its size are migrating to cloud due to its benefits. Cloud services has turned into a blessing for small businesses as they reduce internal information technology resources and the time spent managing them, and this led to increase in the demand of cloud computing services companies.
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Small Business Trends
Small businesses need to be continually watching out for scams and fraudsters. The latest scam is similar to a famous fraud from years ago, but with added technology. John Canfield is the vice president of risk management at WePay. He spoke with Small Business Trends about what small businesses need to look out for.
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