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Monthly Archives: June 2017
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Mary Kay Names Philippines General Manager
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Dallas, Texas-based Mary Kay Inc. recently appointed Sobee Duenas Choa as General Manager of Mary Kay Philippines.
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Five ways to make your business more sustainable in 2017
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If you are sat at work clock-watching, now may be the moment for your business venture to join the green revolution and transform that waste of time into a wasteland of opportunity. The modern business landscape continues to evolve and disposing of any rubbish habits will have a positive impact on your company and help
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2017’s technology trends to help you with eCommerce sales
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We might be halfway through 2017, but there’s no better time than the present to look at what technological trends the year has produced so far. If you’re planning on working out a winning sales strategy for 2018, the trends that have developed or grown this year will give you a good indication of what
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Why accountants should embrace Making Tax Digital
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Making Tax Digital (MTD) is HMRC’s plan to make it easier for businesses and individuals to get their tax in order and manage their finances – spelling the end for the annual tax return. By 2020, the government wants the UK to be the most ‘digitally advanced tax administrations in the world’. However, the speed
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How to create a concrete financial contingency plan
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The new age of business management has freed us from many capital procurement and business financing rules. While financial contingency planning has certainly become more flexible, it is important to note that this has also led to fewer opportunities for mitigating risks. Even if the economic conditions are not currently affecting your business’s profits, your
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Self-employed would value receiving sick pay above other benefits
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UK micro-business owners and freelancers would be more interested in receiving sick pay than any other statutory benefits, according to new research carried out in collaboration between cloud accounting software firm FreeAgent and The Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA). A poll of nearly 900 UK micro-business owners conducted by FreeAgent and FCSA – the
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The Coffice economy is booming and four out of five Brits are part of it
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New research reveals the value and work that is added to the British economy from people working out of coffee shops and the coining of a new term – the Coffice. The size of the Coffice economy is extensive, as four out of five Brits have worked from a coffee shop and do so regularly.
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One in three now comfortable talking about mental health at work
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Bupa, the health and wellbeing provider, has released figures to reveal the health of the UK’s workplace wellbeing. The research coincides with the launch of the Bupa Wellbeing Edit – a report which explores key themes in workplace wellbeing with insights from business and wellbeing experts. The data shows the number of people receiving mental
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Like Father Like Daughter: Total Life Changes National Director Jacqueline Birchfield
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Four years ago Jacqueline Birchfield of Fort Wayne, Indiana was deeply unhappy. At 21, she was a single mother of a one year-old, in denial of being overweight despite her usual dress size being higher than her age.
She avoided mirrors and the feminine clothes she had previously favored, refused to leave the house except for essentials.
“I was working for a company that timed our bathroom breaks,” Jacqueline recalls. “If we took more than three and a half minutes we were subject to discipline.”
There’s no telling how long matters might have gone on this way for Jacqueline if fate, in the form of her father Phillip’s new business venture, hadn’t interceded.
“My father has worked in multi-level marketing for over 20 years, and while he always managed to provide for us, he somehow never really got ahead. So when he started talking about this new company Total Life Changes, I didn’t really pay it any mind at first.” It wasn’t long though before she began to realize that TLC was something different.
“My father has sworn up and down that he was going to lose weight my whole life, but it just never happened,” says Jacqueline. “I think it has a lot to