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5 Steps to Giving Back: Charitable Giving and Your Business

If you’re like many small businesses, your company may be involved in giving back to the community in some way. Giving back should be something your business does all year long. Keep it going and make it your goal to incorporate giving into your business all year long. There are many ways…

How One Woman Incorporated 100,000 Businesses

Most students in law school end up being lawyers, but that’s not the path Nellie Akalp took. Nellie, an Iranian immigrant and co-founder of CorpNet, chose to become an entrepreneur. Both she and her husband were in law school full time when they decided to start an online incorporation…

10 Tips for Painless Holiday Package Shipping

The following tips are for small businesses, about shipping (and receiving) packages during the Holiday season. These were provided by Tom Langa, a representative of UPS, on Small Business Trends Radio. We thought we’d share the highlights with these 10 Holiday shipping tips: 1. Plan…

Apple Was Prepared: What About You?

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be…good. It better be worth it.” ~ Steve Jobs, Fortune As most…

Your Post Labor Day Business Plan

Another summer is officially over. It’s time to start trading in beach towels for some warmer clothes. For the busy entrepreneur and business owner, September marks the perfect time to focus on goals. September is your month…and it’s time to turn your dreams into reality. Whether you’re…

Remarkable Business: Are You Up to the Challenge?

Remarkable business calls for: creative ideas vs. mundane solutions, active involvement in developing your team vs. passive engagement, and uncommon focus on a vision that matters vs. scattered activity on minor issues. Remarkable business makes no room for the lazy executive. When you evaluate…

Do You See a Summertime Slump in Your Small Business?

For a lot of businesses, or so I thought, summer means slower days and less work. Blame it on the kids being out of school or people taking more vacations. I know a lot of my mom blog and mompreneur work-at-home friends usually have slow summers, due to the kids being out of school (I’m glad…

Chart of the Week: Most S-Corps are Micro Businesses

Most people think that Subchapter S Corporations tend to be larger small businesses. However data from a study of small business tax compliance led by Donald DeLuca of IBM Global Services show that the vast majority of Subchapter S Corporations are micro-businesses – companies with fewer than…

How Silence Can Be Golden, Not Awkward

Years ago I was contracted by Apple Computer to do a series of seminars in Japan, and they paid an expert (Dianne Saphiere, if you’re out there, take a bow) to help me with some cross-cultural fine tuning. Dianne taught me the business power of silence. In Japan, she said, a long pause during a…

Chart of the Week: Smaller Businesses Tend to Pay Late

Data reported in the Business Benchmark Report by credit bureau Experian shows that smaller businesses were more likely than their larger counterparts to be severely delinquent in paying their bills in fourth quarter of 2010 . While non-employer firms have a relatively small share of payment…

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