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First appeared in News ObserverAcross North Carolina and the nation, high school seniors are sweating their college applications and fretting about one number: their SAT score. Many students look to Educational Services Centers for help.
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A gas-powered golf cart is one of Santa’s secret weapons this year.
The United Parcel Service has added the lighter means of transportation to boost its delivery fleet on Padre Island during the busiest season of the year.
Driver Leeann Garcia wears the traditional brown uniform and sturdy work boots, but instead of a big brown truck she maneuvers a small black cart through neighborhood streets. Her golf cart is stacked full with packages. When she’s delivered them, she circles back to home base a portable storage unit where she refills the cart until she has finished delivering every parcel there.
Daily delivery has grown to about 200 parcels a day from when she started the seasonal route in November, and she expects it to increase as Christmas Eve nears.
“I try to do as much as I can as fast as I can,” she said.
Garcia is part of a winter seasonal delivery force deployed to meet customer demand. UPS expects to deliver about 120 million parcels this week or 6 percent more than last year.
Im proud that my online video tutorials on business planning are now posted on the community.sba.gov site where they are available to all, and fee, and I do hope useful. Heres the list. You can take them one at a time about 5-10 minutes each in the original order, or pick and choose.
For better or worse, there are a lot of older tutorials with me talking, and me narrating slides, on YouTube and elsewhere. These were done more recently. They are based on my plan-as-you-go idea for the next generation of business plan, which is the first step in business planning. Planning is about results, lean, agile, flexible, and intended to manage change. Its the planning, not the plan, that matters. An
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Vertical Response, known for its email marketing system that serves over 100,000 customers (many of them small businesses), just announced that it has acquired the Roost social media tool.
Roost, based in San Francisco, allows you to update your social media accounts (currently Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook) from one dashboard. Theres a built-in calendar to schedule and publish updates in advance.
While there are other tools out there that do similar functions, whats interesting about Roost is that you can schedule social media updates like marketing campaigns. In a campaign, you can schedule updates to go out over a specified period of time up to 40 updates over a period of 30 days. So, for instance, if you wanted to promote a special offer with a series of informational tweets and also discounts, you could set that up in Roost.
Roost also gives you some analytics about your social media impact. For instance you can measure engagement with your social media updates. You
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It’s easy enough to forget during this festive time of year, but fiscal year end is little more than two weeks away for many small businesses.
Making your income tax instalment payment today brings the basic tax question back to the forebrain; are you paying more income tax than you should?
If you think the answer is “yes” or just aren’t sure, have a look at these six year end small business tax tips. There’s still time to implement some or all of these before the New Year.
Looking for more tax information?
These collections of articles on the site may have just what you’re looking for:
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Today, business and civic leaders released the latest economic study of the Portland-metro area, examining how the region compares to the U.S. average, other metro areas and, most significantly, to its expected performance. The study is part of the Value of Jobs coalition’s efforts to raise awareness of the importance of private-sector jobs and income and wage levels and their connection to the region’s quality of life
Key takeaways:
- Portland-metro suffered significantly greater downturns during recessions when compared to the average for U.S. metros. – In the most recent recession, Portland-metro’s per capita employment dropped by 8 percent (or by 81,200 fewer people employed), more than the U.S. metro average and only 17,900 new workers have been added since early 2010.
- One area where Portland-metro performs exceptionally well is in the growth of its gross metropolitan product per capita, which is 20 percent more productive than the U.S. metro average. – When
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Infomercials are the bane of every hoarder’s existence, but are dangerous to everyone. They bombard us with images of crap we really don’t need, but somehow seem to convince plenty of us non-hoarders to pay for stuff that immediately goes into storage or out at the garage sale. What sorcery is this? How are otherwise sane and rational people roped into paying for products that, let’s be honest, we all know aren’t going to work? Here are 5 ways infomercials sell us on their literal garbage.
Infomercials, as much as we mock them, secretly inspire us. Their products may not always be what we’re looking for, but that can easily change after the host is done telling you how much cooking you’ll do just by purchasing The Magic Bullet or the Chef Basket, which are actually two products on the more useful side of the spectrum. That doesn’t stop th
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