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Your Company’s Social Responsibility
What are you doing for others and why does it matter? The question of social responsibility has always been a concern to small businesses that ... -
5 Things to Do During a Slow Summer
Sylvia Plath wrote: “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” For small business owners, ... -
Summer Reading the Small Business Way
Summertime is a great time to catch up on reading. While some are only interested in perusing beach books, entrepreneurs may relish some helpful business ... -
Archiving Your Company’s History
Today, everything is becoming cloud based, but papers still matter. Maintaining a written history of your company though the paperwork it has produced can serve ... -
What You Can Do to Protect Client and Customer Data
In early July the IRS urged tax return preparers to protect client information. However, this urging should not be limited to preparers; it really applies ... -
Dress Codes Are Dead?
That’s what the New York Times said in a piece in the Fashion & Style section in May entitled The End of the Office Dress ... -
Best Response to a Bad Review
Sites like Yelp and Trip Advisor encourage customers to post reviews of their experiences with businesses. These reviews matter. According to one survey last year, ... -
Rebounding from a Disaster of a Different Kind
With the hurricane season underway, it’s a good time to think about being prepared for storms that can disrupt your business, as I discussed earlier. ... -
Minimum Wage Increases Are Good: Fact or Fiction?
There’s no easy answer to this question. In the course of Senator Sander’s presidential bid, the call for a $15 minimum wage rate was loud ... -
Are You Suffering from Compliance Fatigue?
This isn’t a new question. Ask any business owner and he or she has a tale of woe when it comes to government regulations. A ... -
You’ve Got Your Loan Proceeds so Now What?
Congratulations! You’ve gone through the loan process and now have the funds you wanted. Now what? What you do with the money may be entirely ... -
5 Tips for Setting up a Home Office
The U.S. Small Business Administration says that 52% of all businesses in the U.S. are home-based. If you’re one of them, planning to become one ... -
You May Be a Multistate Business and Not Know It
Each state has its own regime for corporate income tax, sales tax, use tax, and other revenue raisers. Typically, you are subject to a state’s ... -
Think Now about Disaster Preparedness
With the 2016 hurricane season under way until November 1, now’s a good time for you to review how ready your business is to face ... -
Setting Your Workday
The big news for business of late centers around the new overtime rule that applies when workers (other than “exempt” employees) work more than 8 ... -
When Hobby Activities Are Businesses
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a report that chided the IRS for losing more than $70 million by not correctly identifying hobby activities ... -
Why Should Small Business Care about Government Regulating Wall Street Compensation?
A proposed rule under the Dodd-Frank Act would require Wall Street firms with $250 billion or more in assets to defer bonuses to top executives for ... -
What Is Mental Illness Costing Your Company?
May is Mental Health Month, and a time to reflect on the impact that mental disorders has on the workplace. Consider these facts: About 18% ...
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