Working is certainly important, but we should be careful to ensure that our work never consumes our lives.  Similarly, we should also be careful not to let our personal lives interfere with our job.  Therefore, a balance is needed to control the relationship between our careers and personal lives.  This is especially true for freelancers [...]

Leadership traits have become important for all aspects of life, even among those who are not in a leadership position.  They are essential for advancement across a variety of career fields.  They will also help parents raise outstanding families, entrepreneurs begin a successful small business and provide crucial skills for a number of lifelong endeavors.  [...]

Preparing for Small Business Taxes

April 5, 2012
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The formation of a small business can be an exciting endeavor, but doing so does come with its own set of concerns and regulations.  By far the most important and complicated issues facing new entrepreneurs stems from the unique tax laws that specifically affect small businesses.  The process of filing taxes for small businesses differs [...]

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How to Manage Multiple Credit Cards, Without Messing Up Your Finances!

March 22, 2012
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Credit cards are wonderful financial tools, but it can get confusing when you have more than two or three. Remembering the payment due dates and interest rates can be a chore, so it is very important to be organised and have all of the information on each credit card written down. Automatic Payments If you [...]

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Essential Small Business Apps for iPad

March 9, 2012
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Since the iPad’s release, entrepreneurs have gained unique tools to maintain and expand their business while on the go.  This is thanks to the iPad’s app store, which currently provides users with access to over 200,000 applications.  As the marketplace grows, business owners are provided with new tools to help them save money and control [...]

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The Best Cloud-Based Online Accounting Software

March 6, 2012
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve moved a lot of my traditional “software” based tasks to the cloud.   You can read about it here: I Started Moving My Finances and Business To The Cloud.  There are so many great tools that I have been able to take advantage of, including Google Docs and [...]

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Are Office Politics Killing Your Business?

January 23, 2012
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Office politics are commonplace aspects of most work environments. These “politics” or groupings of people who bond together over a shared place within the organization or feelings, are generally hierarchical. Meaning, when it comes to the different levels of office politics, the big wigs are generally in agreement with the big wigs, the little fish [...]

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Employee or Independent Contractor?

January 18, 2012
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Economic factors in recent years have led many businesses of all types and sizes to focus on building a contingent workforce rather than an employee base.  While this helps relieve financial hardships for many individuals and companies, it may also lead to some confusion regarding a particular individual’s role within a company.  If a worker [...]

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Why I Had a Hard Time With Holiday Hiring

January 12, 2012
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I do a lot of holiday hiring, and I felt like this year was extraordinarily difficult to find great, talented individuals.  I was looking to hire roughly 70 individual for various jobs – all just above minimum wage jobs.  Despite reports of so many unemployed, looking for work individuals, I had to do roughly 350 interviews to staff these [...]

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3 C’s of Crisis Management

January 5, 2012
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Crisis management is important to any organization – from small one-person shop to large enterprises.  And crises do not need to be all negative events, they could be unexpected positives that suddenly shine the media spotlight on your business.  However, many do associate most crises with being a negative media event – such as a scandal, [...]

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