11,298 articles on "finance"

Business or Hobby...What Would the IRS Call YOUR Business?

Business or Hobby...What Would the IRS Call YOUR Business? by: Direct Selling Women's Association One thing we know for sure… direct sellers start their businesses for a wide variety of reasons. Some want to build a dynasty, some want the...

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OPEC's Swan Song?

OPEC's Swan Song? by: Sam Vaknin Indonesia's Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels per day, adopted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last ...

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Tax Information for Small Businesses

Information for Small Businesses by: ARA Content (ARA) - The IRS publishes a lot of tax information to help small business owners and there are many ways to get it. You can always visit an IRS office to pick up copies of IRS forms and publicatio...

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1000 Ways to Make Money

1. Produce Christmas cards which are printed on the front with, for example, "Happy Christmas from the Smith Family". Or, instead of the name 'Smith', pick one of the dozens of other popular surnames. Sell packs of these cards by direct mai...

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Tactical Hints for Succession Planning

Tactical Hints for Succession PlanningThe sooner the succession planning process is started the better, and you will have more options. Another advantage: options, such as buying life insurance to fund the stock ownership transfer, tend to be less ex...

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Your Assumptions About Job Descriptions Can Harm You

One of the worst things you can do is get in a “box” and this applies to job descriptions—or rather, what you assume someone else is capable of doing because of your misconceptions about their job description. Compounding this is the current th...

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Influencing With Integrity

Every salesperson — whether selling a product or an idea — must deal with “objections.” Most sales training focuses on how to overcome them. In the first in a series of articles, Contributing Editor Richard Brooke, one of Network Marketing’...

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Public Relations Converting the Non-Believers

What’s the real reason some managers shy away from public relations? I believe it’s because they don’t understand, or believe, the direct connection between what public relations is capable of delivering and their need to achieve specific busin...

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Employee Expectations Key To Customer Retention in Today’s Workplace

Employee Expectations Key To Customer Retention in Today’s WorkplaceTurnover is a fact of business life. A recent study showed that the associated costs of replacing each employee costs a company 29 to 46 percent of his or her salary! In today’s ...

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How to Keep Your Entrepreneurial Spirit Strong in Challenging Times

Hope, opportunities and possibilities - these are the lifeblood of the entrepreneurial spirit. Yet now, with world events, economic forecasts, and the reality of your own bottom-line your entrepreneurial spirit may be having trouble responding. You m...

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