What are you working on right now? Every day my efforts are split between growing and marketing the American Institute for Stuttering office here in Atlanta and working one-on-one and in groups with people who stutter of all ages. What are you passionate about? Helping people with speech fluency disorders learn to speak more freely and live more fearlessly. Why Alkaloid? Alkaloid has been the perfect fit for me. Our aim was to establish
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As our world grows increasingly connected through digital channels and technological infrastructure, we’re starting to see a movement among people located in individual communities. People are turning their attention to coworking spaces, other ride-sharing and tool-sharing ideas that bring people, in real-time, together, in order to benefit the local community. This kind of local-based mindset is what we call localism today, otherwise known as the process in which good, services, and social capital are distributed
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What are you and the rest of the Inspry team working on right now? WordPress-powered fan app for the Atlanta-based, southern rock outlaws Blackberry Smoke What are you passionate about? Helping clients effectively tell their unique stories on the web. Why Alkaloid? Alkaloid not only has super friendly and relaxed vibes, but offers more than any other coworking space without any extra fees. Plus its right on the Beltline! What is one thing that people don’t know
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How To Be A Solopreneur Here it is; July 4th! To American’s, the date better known as Independence Day. Today is a day to celebrate independence, but not just for America’s independence. Let’s also use today to celebrate independent workers all around the world. This includes solopreneurs, remote workers, freelancers, and small businesses looking to contribute to the economy on their own terms, in their own way, and on their own time! The Economic Policy
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What are you working on right now? The biggest project of my life is my newborn baby daughter. While I’ve been an entrepreneur for over a decade, there’s nothing like Baby 0.1 where you are figuring things out for the first time all over again. My team is split between Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Atlanta, GA. We have over 150 clients whom we manage websites, hosting, software, so that keeps us super busy. My goal in
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When summer starts, parents that work from home start to wonder “is summer good or is summer bad?” When kids start summer vacations, the home office turns into a grand play area. This can turn into a nightmare for work-from-home parents as they start to consider how to manage or counter the children-at-home issue. Kids can be a distraction. At times, it is more challenging to ignore them or ask them not to disturb your work.
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What are you working on right now? Alexander Consulting specializes in accounting and process improvement for small to mid-size businesses. As well as individual, business, and nonprofit tax returns. Deadlines are approaching fast!!! What are you passionate about? Helping and empowering others to succeed. Why Alkaloid? The open environment, sense of community, and the willingness to foster entrepreneurial growth without diminishing by nickel and diming for various aspect of coworking. What is one thing that
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Why is diversity so important in coworking? Coworking, in it’s current format, is not a very old concept and over the past decade it has proven to be one of the most successful business and working models. More and more people are becoming part of this model due to the huge associated benefits such as; increased productivity, reduced costs and environmental friendly workspaces. According to research by Deskmag, the number of coworking spaces is doubling
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What are you working on right now? All kinds of stuff! Jarrell Systems has approximately 15 active projects right now. The most exciting thing we’re working on is moving a large eCommerce customer from Magento to Shopify Plus. It’s cooler than it sounds. I promise. What are you passionate about? Technology, branding, process improvement and helping new entrepreneurs get their ventures off the ground. Why Alkaloid? Location, location, location. You can’t beat it. I love
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Why is worker productivity declining? According to Robert Gordon of Northwestern University, whose book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, “Most of it (the economy) is operating by the same business methods and procedures that have been in place for at least 10 years.” It has little to do with social-media-inspired slacking off and more to do with workers having outgrown existing technology and closely linked to the growing loneliness epidemic. One answer
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