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Precisely two years ago this month, a consulting firm called Microbusiness Strategies LLC launched a series of interactive events called IssuesLive.
It was billed as a “national dialogue and needs assessment” for microbusinesses, with said dialogue to be taking place between said microbusiness owners, service providers, vendors, policy makers [...]

Not your grandpa’s job market anymore

My friends at Forbes.com recently asked me the following question:
Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a jump in the unemployment rate to 10.2%.Some economists think we could be looking at 10.5% by early next year.
Given these grim forecasts, how do you counsel recent college graduates and others entering the job market for [...]

Can you guess where the REAL job growth has been happening?

Last week, an article I wrote for AppGap (as a member of the Small Business Trends Expert Network) about nonemployers and the new role they might be expected to play in a 21st century economy caused a bit of a Twitter-powered stir.
Nothing that would bring down anybody’s servers or anything like that, but the article [...]

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