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Hello Alice Co-founders Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore Are Fueling the Small Business Ecosystem

Success

A journey filled with unexpected events is an apt comparison for what many small business owners encounter in entrepreneurship. During a conference in 2015, the future co-founders started talking about a mutual passion to address the problem of equity in the small business space. The problem?

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

A strategic business partnership is not a business relationship that looks to exchange or extract value for your business from the other organization. A small business, for example, might partner with an industry-specific organization or association in order to reach a specific target market.

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600,000 people have earned a Google certificate over the last 5 years. Here’s what that tells us about the future of hiring

Work Life

Technology companies like Google offer some of the highest-paying jobs in the world.  As technology advances, we all need to learn new skills to be effective in our roles and competitive in the job market. Our belief all along has been, if you want to solve this important societal problem, you need an ecosystem approach.

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3 tips to help you choose a customer engagement solution for your small business.

Ruby

For small business owners, choosing the right customer engagement solution has never been more important. And with so many new technologies and customer trends to keep track of as a business owner, it can be difficult to know which of your business investments is going to end up paying off in the long run.

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How to Pick a Business Partner

Success

You brainstorm late into the night sharing radical and transformative ideas that you are sure will solve a problem and maybe even change the world. You spend hours laboring over your deck and business plan, making them absolutely perfect, united by a common goal of launching this new venture. This is understandable in some ways.

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POV: We need more Gen Zers working with their hands

Work Life

Labor shortages in the trades are a big problem, and it’s only getting worse. She registered to be an apprentice and points to the constant problem solving and earning potential in her trade as career highlights. What will happen when these small businesses—so important to a healthy economy—cease to exist?

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Has customer service technology replaced humans?

Ruby

Alas, the unsettling modern business trend is to treat customers like a puzzle to be solved. Businesses break down customers into data points which are analyzed, evaluated, and categorized in order to be marketed to more effectively. Customers hate IVR, but it’s still used because businesses view it as a cost saver.