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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Avoiding Affiliate Fraud

Today, everyone is looking for a leg-up, but you still have to follow the law in your advertising efforts. I am not talking about truth in advertising, I am talking about a affiliate fraud, also called “click fraud.” It can happen anywhere. Here are some ideas on how to spot it and how to protect yourself.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

What Would You Do With This Company? Part II

In case you didn’t see through the thinly veiled references, yesterday’s column was talking about the federal government. I asked in an earlier entry, after Congress gave itself a generous pay increase, whether the government should be run like a business. Now, with it expanding beyond all reason, we come back to that question: Should the government be run like a business?

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Employees: Hiring

Small Business tips about hiring employees. Find out everything that you can about potential employees before you hire.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

What Would You Do With This Company? Part I

There is a corporate entity out there, vast and powerful, big enough to dictate the terms of any contract it enters into, it spends money like water yet it provides lavish perks for its executives and its board while, at the same time, being underfunded to the extent that it has been running so deeply in the red for so long that it has been essentially bankrupt for ages. As a business owner, what would you do with this organization? [First of a two-part series]

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Employees: How to Handle Them

Small Business tips about handling your employees. Learn how to interact with employees to get the best possible work environment.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Employee Credit Checks

People lose points on their credit all the time, it is one of those bad things that happen to good people. Should it be used to make a hiring decision? That is the question that five states and the federal government are dealing with and the answer they come up with could change your hiring practices.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Managing Your Email

Small Business tips about time management and email. How do you balance and manage it all? 4 easy tips to help you do just that!

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Tracking Website Performance : bit.ly and Google Analytics

Tracking your website's performance is important to monitoring your marketing efforts. What do you do though when you find that your reports are different?

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Important Website Information

Start with establishing an internet presence! Small Business tips about your company's website and the important information to have on it.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: About the Customers

Small Business tips about your customers, not you.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The Best (and Worst) States for Small Business Healthcare Costs

Given the rising cost of healthcare to small business, the SBE Council has released its Healthcare Policy Cost Index, which ranks the states according to their overall healthcare costs.

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Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Finding Your Target

Small Business tips about finding your target and defining elements.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Clock is Ticking on Senate Stimulus Vote

There will soon be a vote on the Senate version of President Obama’s so-called stimulus plan, on the list of social and governmental programs, the token tax cuts and the even more token nods to small business. Question: If this bill doesn’t stimulate small business, why is everyone calling it a stimulus bill?

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Hire American

The media has been talking about the Buy American provisions in the much-debated stimulus bill, but there is similar issue under debate in the Halls of Congress, the 1-HB Guest Worker visa issue. The question is this: As American unemployment continues to break records, is there still a place for foreign workers in America? Is it now time to Hire American?

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Pass the Salt: Protect Your Business from Covert Organization

This week saw organized labor making a big push in Congress for changes that would make it easier for their organizers to come in and unionize your business. Today, we will look at a practice called “Salting,” a legal, if covert, way for unions to infiltrate a business and give you, the business owner, some tips on how to stop it.

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