What is merchant processing?Imagine if your business only accepted cash payments. How badly would it hit your bottom line? What if you didn't make...
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Swedish big-box home furnishing store, IKEA, has tailored its customer shopping experience in a way that would make M.C. Escher proud. Its goal, ...
This is the health care article that has nothing (well, very little) to do with the ongoing discussions about the Healthcare Bill, whether it's go...
In December 2009, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) published the results of a survey it conducted on Unemployment Insuranc...
The government wants to pay you $9000 for your most recent hourly-paid new hire. It will be paid in the form of tax credits available to your bu...
Accounts Receivable factoring, or AR factoring, is not a new cash flow management technique, even though it might be new to you as a business owner.Sm...
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) has a 10-point plan for starting a business. We don't like it. For example, it advises you to look at inco...
Corporate credit cardsA business credit card works more or less like a personal credit card. It's a revolving loan with a set limit. It's usua...
For many small business owners, choosing the right tools and technology to support their company can seem like a daunting and expensive task. However,...
What is Sales Outsourcing?You don't have to hire a whole bunch of sales people. Why not simply rent a sales department?It might seem like a strang...
What is outsourced payroll processing? How does it work? We think that only a violent catastrophe that could damage employee morale and job satis...
If you open the fridge here at the Company.com, you'll find a couple of plastic containers which now require CDC clearance to open, an assortment ...
You can never eliminate that chance of being audited, because a perfect tax return will be suspicious, too (who files perfect taxes?) Company.com has ...
Firing people. Once, back in the days of the Hawthorne Experiment, it was easy, and employees would thank business owners for having hired them in the...
When you hear the words "turnover" and "churn" do your thoughts turn to chilly fall evenings with fresh-baked apple-filled pastrie...
With Jason Peckham, 20/20 Tax Resolution. Taxes can be the death of your business. Or rather, a failure to understand or pay taxes can be th...
1. Create a safe environment.Ideally, you don't want to be interrupted, so if you have an office with a door you can close that's ...
People lie in interviews. It's a fact, get over it. Sometimes they're small lies, like stretching the truth of what their experience is. Somet...