Category: Business
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Drones: An Exciting New Tool for Real Estate Professionals, and One Full of Risk
The Landy Insurance Agency is a NAWRB strategic partner and steadfast supporter of our mission to provide women and women-owned businesses the tools and awareness for growth and success. Dedicated to providing their clients with the utmost service, Landy is experienced in recognizing pertinent industry issues, developments and initiatives. One of the newest topics Landy…
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Diversity and Inclusion in the Tech Industry and Beyond
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) does not only mean employing people from different ethnic backgrounds, it also involves gender. According to a report from the Professional Diversity Network, women make up 41.5 percent of the entire national workforce and flourish in accounting and bookkeeping, legal services, education and health. Are there enough women in other sectors…
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Cultivating a Flexible Work Culture
We live in a fast-paced world that is outgrowing the era of the 9 to 5 work day spent cooped up at a desk. Millennials, who are the debutants in the workforce, have a different perspective and desire flexible schedules with the liberty of working from anywhere. Is that too much to ask for, especially…
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Informing, Educating and Connecting Small Businesses
By SBA Staff America’s 28 million small businesses create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year, and more than half of all Americans either own or work for a small business. Small businesses play a key role in the economy and in the nation’s supply chain, and increasingly, they are…
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Diversity and Inclusion: A Millennial’s Standpoint
Traditionally, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in a workplace mean the representation and acceptance of people regardless of their race, gender, religion and other factors. Millennials, who will comprise 75 percent of the workforce by 2025, have a different perception; even though they respect the old norm, for them D&I is more about intellectual acceptance.
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The Power of Asian Women Entrepreneurs
A recent international study conducted by Scorpio Partnership for HSBC Private Bank examined 2,834 entrepreneurs who are actively involved in business and are worth at least one million American dollars, with the average worth of survey participants being $4.6 million. The nations covered in the study are mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the U.K., Germany,…
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Art Basel: Work and Play
One of the foremost art installments in the world, Art Basel in America is occurring from December 3-6, 2015 in Miami Beach, Florida. For the cultured and wealthy, this is the place to be.
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Support Women-Owned Businesses this Holiday Season
After a flurry of special shopping days like Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, it is time to support women-owned businesses. The first Wednesday after Thanksgiving is marked as WomenWednesday and is meant to promote women-owned and women-led businesses and causes.
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The Effect of Small Business Saturday
Last Tuesday we wrote about Small Business Saturday (SBS), a campaign launched in 2010 focused on encouraging people to patronize small businesses the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The results from this year’s Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey are in, and they reveal inspiring figures for small businesses and the public’s awareness and support of them.
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Support Local Businesses on Small Business Saturday
For many holiday shoppers, Thanksgiving is linked to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but how many of you have heard of Small Business Saturday (SBS)? Unlike the popular Friday and Monday deals, Small Business Saturday is focused on local, small businesses. American Express launched the program in 2010 to encourage shoppers to buy local and…