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The importance of time, timelines and timing with your commercial lease
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailThe commercial leasing process can take differing amounts of time, depending on whether you're opening your first or fifth business location. You can discover a lot during your first few lease deals that you can carry forward — potentially saving you both time and money with further leasing projects.
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7 steps to conflict resolution in the office
Deborah Ike Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFor some reason, when we start to work at an office, we unconsciously expect everyone to get along and not have any conflict. That idea tends to be proven false fairly quickly. Whatever conflicts you've experienced, the tension and resulting lack of cooperation can keep the team from being as effective as possible.
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3 lessons your business can learn from Pokemon Go’s success
Ross Lancaster Science & TechnologyOf all the world's companies that produce, develop or market video games or video game consoles, none is more iconic than Nintendo. Originally founded as a playing card company in Japan in 1889, the company became a worldwide household name beginning in the 1980s, with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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7 tips for complying with the new federal wage-hour regulations
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently disclosed the details of its final revised regulations relating to certain "white collar" salary exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Lesson learned: Amazon’s Prime Day breaks sales records
Katina Hernandez RetailWhen online retailer Amazon announced in June that a follow-up to last year's Prime Day was in the works, some were left feeling skeptical. Although Amazon hailed last year's event for generating more sales than the previous Black Friday, #PrimeDayFail trended on social media as consumers were less than impressed with many items on sale and the length of Amazon's signature Lightning Deals.
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Can Pokémon Go help catch customers? Retailers think so
Danielle Manley RetailPokémon Go has taken over. Currently available in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia only, Pokémon Go is already rivaling Twitter for total daily users. With numbers like this, business owners everywhere should be looking at how they can use Pokémon Go's success to their advantage.
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Employment applications: A refresher course
Mel Kleiman Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe most important piece of paper between you and the job applicant is the employment application. Yet the employment application is such a commonplace, routine document that we often overlook how vital it is.
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What do June’s economic statistics mean for your small business?
Paul Zukowski Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWe all see the same government-supplied numbers on the U.S. economy each month — the jobs added, the unemployment rate, the Fed's interest rate. But what those numbers mean to your small business is often quite different from what they mean to the business next door, to Exxon or to the economy as a whole, especially in a presidential election year.
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Metals Thoughts: Spinning our wheels
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesThere has been a fair amount of choppiness to the market in the last week without really getting anywhere from a price movement perspective. Since our close on July 1, we are up about $4, but have had some volatile sessions in the interim — especially Friday after the particularly strong jobs report.
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Americans still struggling to find healthy food on the go
Katina Hernandez Food & BeverageIt is no secret many Americans are gravitating toward a healthy lifestyle, with millennials leading the way. And no other industry has seen the effects of this health consciousness trend more so than the food industry.
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