As a small business owner you need to have a good handle on your company's taxes. Here are a trio of changes you need to know about. Two are good, one...not so good.
Tags: small business, taxes, 179, self-employment, mileage
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Posted: 3/16/2009 | Comments (0)
Are you on Twitter? Many small business experts are. Find out who the top 20 small business experts are on Twitter and exactly why they're called experts.
Tags: small business, experts, twitter, social media
Posted: 3/13/2009 | Comments (29)
We all know that words have meaning, but did you realize that there is a meaning beyond what the dictionary says? More than that, it can have a great effect on how your advertising is perceived.
Tags: small business, advertising, words, risk, safety
Posted: 3/11/2009 | Comments (0)
You have heard of consumer sites ranging from Rip-off Reports to Consumerist to Yelp to Rate My Professor. They all allow consumers to rate the people they hire. That is all well and good, but what about you? How do you know if the customer on the other end of the phone is a real customer or a deadbeat? Enter BusinessBeware.biz.
Tags: small business, businessbeware, deadbeats
Posted: 3/10/2009 | Comments (1)
As a small business owner, you know well enough that your taxes are going to be rising—possibly dramatically—over the next year or so. It is in the stimulus, and the budget, but have you paid attention to what is going to happen as soon as Obama passes his cap and trade legislation. It is supposed to lower carbon emissions, and it might. It will also be a massive tax on energy, one that you won’t be able to escape.
Tags: cap and trade, energy, taxes, obama
Posted: 3/9/2009 | Comments (2)
Your business survives on sales, no question about it, but there is a little-known secret that the sale is won before you step into your potential customer's office. It all comes down to one word: Planning.
Tags: small business, sales, pre-call planning
Posted: 3/6/2009 | Comments (2)
Small businesses today are banding together in even greater numbers than ever before to promote the idea of buying from local businesses. Would this be a good fit for your business?
Tags: small business, buy local, economy
Posted: 3/5/2009 | Comments (2)
Skittles launched a social media and public relations campaign that takes most of the attention away from their product and places it more on what the internet is saying about them. Good or bad? Is this the right kind of attention? Kim suggests how to do it better next time.
Tags: social media, business, twitter, marketing, skittles
Posted: 3/2/2009 | Comments (0)
There is not much for small business in the recently signed stimulus package. Less than 1% of the spending is, in fact, directed to the needs of small businesses. That said, if you dig deep enough, search hard enough, there are a few things that might just help.
Tags: small business, stimulus, benefits
Posted: 2/25/2009 | Comments (1)
Let's face it, sometimes you learn more about your employees than you would like—their health issues, the horrors of their marriage, their obsession with Hello Kitty—but its all harmless, nothing to bother about. Then again, when your employee's little quirk involves spending their breaks watching sample movies from Farmgalsdoitdirty.com on their office computer, it is time to take some action.
Tags: small business, it management, porn
Posted: 2/19/2009 | Comments (0)
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.
Tags: small business, affiliate fraud, prevention
Posted: 2/17/2009 | Comments (0)
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.
Tags: small business, employment, credit checks
Posted: 2/13/2009 | Comments (1)
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?
Tags: website, performance, tracking, analytics, seo
Posted: 2/12/2009 | Comments (3)
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.
Tags: small business, healthcare, sbe council, best states, worst states, healthcare costs
Posted: 2/10/2009 | Comments (0)
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.
Tags: labor, unionization, salting
Posted: 2/6/2009 | Comments (0)
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