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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Healthcare Reform: New Taxes vs. a New Direction

The question of healthcare reform is a hot one these days, and the administration’s solution to it—taxes on all sorts of things including employer-paid benefits and soda pop—seems to be the odds-on favorite to win. Still, is sinking even more money, trillions of dollars, into healthcare really the only option? Perhaps it is really a matter of priorities instead.


Tags: small business, healthcare, health insurance, healthcare reform, taxes

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Posted: 5/14/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

ABC On Your Side: The Facts about FACTA

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act requires credit card receipts print only truncated portions of the credit card number used for the transaction. Those out of compliance face fines and civil lawsuits, which is the problem. The law has turned into a gold mine for trial lawyers who bring suit against small businesses they find in violation. This abuse must be stopped and ABC is stepping up to stop it.


Tags: small business, facta, fair and accurate credit transactions act, fcra, fair credit reporting act, abusive lawsuits, litigation

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Posted: 5/13/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Will Unionizing Your Business Help Rebuild the Middle Class?

Vice-President Joe Biden made an interesting comment. He declared that union growth is the way to rebuild America’s middle class. Is that true?


Tags: small business, unions, efca, employee free choice act, card-check

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Posted: 5/12/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Should You Encourage Your Employees to Connect Online?

There is a growing tendency within companies for employees to connect with each other online in social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and such. Is this, however, all its cracked-up to be, or are there problems lurking in the cyber-shadows?


Tags: small business, social media, web 2.0, employee relations, online relationships

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Posted: 5/11/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Tracking and Testing Your Advertising Results

Small Business tips about tracking the results of your advertising, it’s absolutely fundamental to your success.


Tags: small business, tips, tracking, results, advertising, marketing

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Posted: 5/8/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

After the Bailout: GM to Increase Foreign Production

Now here is a real “rock and a hard place” quandary for the President and his Car Czar: GM plans to send more manufacturing jobs overseas once they reorganize. The rock is that if the jobs remain here, GM’s labor costs would rise, harming its ability to compete; the hard place is the utter outrage that would ensue if the automaker, after receiving billions of taxpayer dollars, is allowed to send the jobs out of the country.


Tags: american jobs, foreign jobs, gm, obama

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Posted: 5/8/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Yellow Page Advertising

The Small Business tips today will cover the elements you need to know in order to make a Yellow Page advertisement work.


Tags: small business, tips, yellow pages, advertisements, yellow page

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Posted: 5/7/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The Other Side of the Chrysler Hedge Fund Fight

The President’s sharp words against those investment companies—he called them ‘speculators’—who refused his deal regarding the Chrysler bankruptcy, have been aired far and wide. Now, you should get the other side of the argument and decide for yourself who is right. In an open letter to the nation, Clifford S. Asness, the Managing and Founding Principal at AQR Capital Management, LLC, answers the President.


Tags: chrysler, bankruptcy, hedge funds, investment, obama, clifford s. asness, aqr capital management

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Posted: 5/7/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Direct Mail Advertising

Small Business tips about direct mail: an immediate response media – people either respond or trash immediately.


Tags: small business, tips, direct mail, advertising, marketing

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Posted: 5/6/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

New Legislation to Help Small Business with Healthcare

Three senators, Durbin (D-IL), Snowe (R-ME), and Lincoln (D-AR) have introduced legislation for consideration in the upcoming Congressional healthcare reform debate that is designed to make insurance more available and affordable for the employees of the nation’s small businesses and for millions of self-employed individuals.


Tags: small business, healthcare, durbin, snowe, lincoln, small business health options program, shop

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Posted: 5/6/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Newspaper Advertising

Small Business tips that address the fact that 57% of adults in the U.S. read a newspaper daily and how to take advantage of this advertising means.


Tags: small business, tips, advertising, news, newspaper, marketing

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Posted: 5/5/2009 | Comments Comments (2)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The New Language of Global Warming

With the way that economic and environmental issues are so powerfully linked together by this administration and this Congress, not to mention the way the issue of global warming is being reexamined and treated with growing skepticism, its no wonder that the environmental movement is coming out with a whole new lexicon to describe global warming and the economy-killing cap-and-trade energy taxes they want to impose to fight it.


Tags: small business, global warming, new language, new terminology

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Posted: 5/4/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Franchise Decisions: Do You Honor Corporate Specials or Not?

When you own a franchise, you are generally free to ignore corporate promotions. That is the letter of the law. The question is, should you?


Tags: small business, franchises, promotions, corporate specials franchisee rights

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Posted: 5/1/2009 | Comments Comments (2)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Advertising via Social Networks

These Small Business tips give the base on how to use social networking to market and advertise your business.


Tags: small business, tips, marketing, advertising, internet, social media, social networking

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Posted: 5/1/2009 | Comments Comments (1)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Placing Internet Advertisements

Are you interested in running internet ads? You should be! Cheap & flexible. Within are some Small Business tips on what you need to know to get started.


Tags: small business, tips, advertisements, adwords, google, ads

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Posted: 4/30/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

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