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How to Disaster-Proof Your Electronic Data

Insperity

Natural disasters are an unpredictable reality across the country, and their impact on small businesses can be devastating. Back your data up off-site, Meghan Blair-Valero, founder of Fogged In Bookkeeping , advises in her blog. “If you host your network off-site to start, make sure they have a proper data backup plan.

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6 myth-busting facts about entrepreneurship and poverty

Work Life

For example, in some high-poverty sub-Saharan African countries, as many as two out of three adults operate or are in the process of starting their own business. Such small businesses are arguably the backbone of many developing economies, where over 50% of the population can be in poverty.

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Maximizing Productivity: Why Every Business Owner Needs an Executive Assistant

C-Suite Assistants

As a business owner, you have many responsibilities, from overseeing daily business operations and marketing and sales campaigns to creating a business plan, financial management and bookkeeping, customer service, and ensuring legal compliance. Some owners will try to handle everything with a small staff.

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101 tech tools for business owners.

Ruby

Consider all the effort it takes to court customers, build your network, optimize your online presence, hire new staff, launch marketing and sales campaigns… The list goes on. How do successful business owners stay on top of it all? Grow your circle and discover what’s out there with these networking tools. Is it time-travel?

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does my boss want to have an affair with me, I feel guilty about resigning, and more

Ask a Manager

She is very personable and a great networker but has chosen to network best with me and I would say communicated far more with me than any other staff. I’ve recently started trying to learn the ropes at my dad’s small business. He has an office manager who runs the day to day business.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

No cold calling, no website or marketing, no business cards or networking events. So why do 90% of small businesses fail in the first few years? The E-Myth Revisited begs entrepreneurs to work “on” your business, instead of “in” your business. Their prescription?

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

” So I set myself up to offer bookkeeping and virtual admin/executive assistant services for small businesses and business owners. Then I hit social media, my local network of friends, business organizations, freelancer job boards, anywhere I could think to get myself out there.

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