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Protecting the Tax Advantage of Your Deferred Compensation

Protecting the Tax Advantage of Your Deferred Compensation by: Daniel Lamaute The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 imposed strict new rules on non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Beginning in 2005, deferred compensation programs that ar...

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How to Handle 12 Big Issues for Small Businesses

How to Handle 12 Big Issues for Small Businesses by: Diana Barnum Some day-to-day work issues can turn into big headaches for small businesses. For example, not having enough help during a busy season or new promotion can hurt production, sales ...

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Four Different Ways People Process Your Information

Four Different Ways People Process Your Information by: Sandra SchriftThere are four different ways that audience members assimilate information. They are: visual, auditory, auditory digital, and kinesthetic. While all members of the audience wi...

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Outsourcing – A Positive Approach For Small Businesses

Outsourcing – A Positive Approach For Small Businesses by: Jagmohan Saluja Outsourcing is the strategic use of outside resources to perform activities traditionally handled by internal staff and resources. Small business owners can outsource n...

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What To Expect In Closing Costs On A Home Purchase

What To Expect In Closing Costs On A Home Purchase by: W. Troy Swezey Many are taking advantage of this year’s low mortgage rates to purchase a home. Pent up with excitement, many families, who have scrimped and saved for a down-payment, jump ...

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Microsoft Navision Customization Upgrade – tips for Programmer/IT Specialist

Microsoft Navision Customization Upgrade – tips for Programmer/IT Specialist by: John Kleb When Microsoft bought Navision it had the plan to take over European market of Business Applications. Now Navision has multiple installations in US and ...

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How to Turn Freebies in to Sales

How to Turn Freebies in to Sales by: Paul Jesse You can increase sales and profits by offering freebies to people who buy your main product or service. They increase the over all value of your main offer and in return people feel they're ge...

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Killer Profit Boosters

1. Gain an advantage over your competition. Youshould find one benefit your competition doesn'toffer and use it as your main selling point.2. Design your e-zine so it creates multiple freeadvertising streams. Ask readers to forward it topeople t...

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Developing Realistic Financial Assumptions

Many investors skip straight to the financial section of the business plan. It is critical that the assumptions and projections in this section be realistic. Plans that show penetration, operating margin and revenues per employee figures that are poo...

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Five Ways to Stay Motivated

Remember how you felt the first day you opened your small business? It’s a time of excitement and joy for most of us. We’re ready to go and conquer the world! However, once the honeymoon is over and reality sets in, we find that there are challen...

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