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5 Tips to Keep Your Business Healthy This Cold and Flu Season.

The cold and flu season takes its toll on America’s businesses. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the flu alone costs U.S. companies $10.4 billion in direct costs — which includes hospitalization and other medical expenses. In addition, illnesses that spread throughout the work environment cause 22 million sick days which cost businesses significantly in terms of lost productivity. Healthy Work Place Project estimates a 25 employee company loses $33,000 every year to lost productivity and having to hire temporary workers to replace those who are because of illness.

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6 Business Mastery Fundamentals Every Business Owner Needs to Know

Do you ever wonder why some businesses flourish while others flounder? One of the biggest reasons is a lack of knowledge of the critical business fundamentals that it takes to grow a successful and sustainable business. I work with small business owners just like you, and most of the time when a business is struggling there’s a weakness in one of key business fundamentals. Here are the six business mastery fundamentals you need to know to unleash your business success.

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How to Respond to Bogus Online Customer Reviews : Guest Blog – Cliff Ennico

Thanks to the Internet, we can find out with a click of a button if anyone has had a bad experience with a product, a service, a small business or a local professional. A number of websites have sprouted up to provide a forum for online reviews. Some, like Angie’s List (www.angieslist.com), charge users a small fee in order to weed out bogus reviews. Most of these sites, however, including Amazon.com and Yelp.com (www.yelp.com) are free, which encourages anonymous postings. While most of these postings are valid and genuine, there’s a temptation for people with an “axe to grind” to post false reviews knowing they cannot be tracked down.

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