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Emerging From The Pandemic: How Small Businesses Can Begin To Recover
As small businesses plan strategies for reopening and recovery, the new business landscape offers little more than painful choices. Being shut down or running minimal operations may turn out to be less stressful than facing the challenges ahead—new rules for safe operation, huge debts, uncertain ability to retain a wor
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How Your Brand Can Win Over Gen Z With Marketing
They aren't the tech-obsessed teeny-boppers many of us remember. Gen Z is like nothing marketers have ever seen before. Between Boomers heading for
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Fed sees earlier time frame for rate hikes with inflation up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it may act sooner than previously planned to start dialing back the low-interest-rate policies that have helped fuel a swift rebound from the pandemic recession but have also coincided with rising inflation. The Fed's policymakers forecast that they would ra
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How Consolidations are Affecting the Food & Beverage Industry
An interview with Michael Bromfield, SVP & Market Executive, First Midwest BankSource: First Midwest BankIn late 2019, Performance Food Group completed its $2 billion acquisition of Reinhart Foodservice, consolidating the largest foodservice distributors in the U. S. to five. Most recently, PFG announced its intention
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How to Fit Smart Home Technology into Your Business
geralt / Pixabay From 2015 to 2017, the number of connected homes in the U. S. grew from 17 million to 29 million, according to data from McKinsey. That growth is expected to keep rising, with experts predicting that the smart home market could surpass $158 billion by 2022. However, it isn’t just homeowners who are ben
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How Small Businesses Balance Their Staff With Freelancers
Now, small businesses balance their staff with freelancers. A recent study done by UpWork.com and the Freelancers Union found that around 57 million Americans were working as freelancers as of 2019. This makes up about 36 percent of the U. S. workforce and amounts to $1.4 trillion in earnings. The term “gig economy” ha
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There will be one economy for the vaccinated and another for everyone else
The Delta surge has sparked fears of repeating 2020, but it's unlikely we'll experience last year's economy. Not enough people are vaxxed to stop Delta, but enough are to help keep the economy running. The economy has also learned how to adapt to the pandemic, but you'll need a shot to participate. See more stories on
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Inflation Proof Your Business: Strategies For Small Business Owners To Stay Ahead
In 2022, countries around the world saw near-record-breaking rates of inflation. The Consumer Price Index in the U.K. reached 11.1%, the highest since
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Why Women Need To Talk About Money Openly And Often
If you want to build your financial confidence, you need to break the silence around talking about money and make regular and unapologetic conversations around the subject.
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2023 ONe Vision CEO Award winner
Insightful, resourceful, fostering, collaborative, optimistic, encouraging, committed. These are all words team members used to describe