Category: Success Tips

Tax Time Tips to Save You Money

Caught up in the frenzy of March Madness? Don’t forget it’s also tax season. The filing deadline is just around the corner, and while you can’t escape paying Uncle Sam, you can make sure you don’t pay more than legally required. However, because the tax laws change every year, knowing what you can and can’t write off is confusing to say the least. Some business owners miss perfectly legitimate deductions while others get creative and take more than they should resulting in potential problems down the road.

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Reach and Teach Your Way to Small Business Success

When I ask small business owners what their biggest challenge is in today’s market, many say it’s attracting new business. That’s a challenge in any economic climate, but it’s even more difficult in tough times because most businesses don’t have big budgets to spend on marketing. One of the least expensive and most effective strategies for any business is reach and teach marketing.

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Wisdom Wednesdays Helps Women Business Owners Succeed

A new program to help women business owners succeed is scheduled to kick-off March 27. It’s a series of 30 minute conference call presentations sponsored by Key4Women from KeyBank. Topics will range from fostering leadership, identifying new business opportunities to how to expand personal and professional networks. Wisdom Wednesdays sessions are scheduled to take place 12 p.m. ET on the last Wednesday of each month through October. The sessions are free and open to the public. You can register for a specific event or the entire series.

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Crashed Computer More Disruptive Than a Sick Employee: New Research Reports

Technology is the lifeblood of any small business today. According to a recent survey from Brother International Corporation, 75 percent of small business owners say that a crashed computer is more disruptive to their business than a sick employee. Alarmingly, only 28 percent of small business owners said they completely understand the concept of cloud computing, and 42 percent of respondents said they are not using cloud computing at all.

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Health Insurance Tax Has Disproprotionate Affect on Small Business Job Creation

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times: Small business owners say they’ll either reduce their current staff levels or avoid hiring new employees because of the health insurance tax (HIT) mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Now new research released by the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation (NFIB) quantifies the cost of the legislation on job creation.

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