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E. Alan Tiras
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
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Business Entity Forms: Limited Liability Company
Limited Liability Companies (“LLC”) are a relatively new form of business entity and is somewhat of a hybrid between a partnership and a "S" corporation. LLC's provide a partnership‘s flexibility of operations with the limitation of personal liability on its owners as in a corporation. ...Jul 22 -
Business Entity Forms: S-Corporation
An "S" corporation is identical to a "C" corporation for most non-tax purposes. But, for tax purposes, "S" corporations and "C" corporations differ dramatically. Whereas a "C" corporation is a separate entity for tax purposes, an "S" corporation is a flow through entity, much like a partnership. ...Jul 15 -
Business Entity Forms: C-Corporation
A corporation is a separate legal entity from its owners (shareholders) and is managed and controlled by directors and officers. Fundamental corporate policy is set by the board of directors while responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the corporation rests on the President. All corporations must have a President, Secretary and Treasurer ...Jul 08 -
Business Entity Forms: Limited Partnership
The limited partnership is substantially identical to the general partnership in legal form. The difference is that limited partnerships have at least one, and usually more, "limited partners." A limited partner is often an investor whose liability for partnership obligations is limited to his or her contribution, share of any recourse debt, and ...Jul 01 -
Business Entity Forms: General Partnership
A general partnership is an association of two or more persons to carry on a business for profit as co-owners. A partnership is the basic non-entity form in which two or more owners can operate a business. The owners can be individuals, corporations, estates, trusts, or other legal entities. Although it is strongly advised, a partnership is not ...Jun 24 -
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Susan Hill
Sandra Yancey, founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork and a leading proponent of women entrepreneurs, is the featured speaker at the Women's Success Summit Dinner hosted by the eWomenNetwork Reno/Carson/Tahoe Chapter on March 21. http://on.rgj.com/y73TLw
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Be the star in your online videos
Online videos have become a powerful way to build your professional brand. You can use them as a welcome and introduction on your website landing page or to offer information and tips on your site. Post them on YouTube and as testimonials for others – offering an insight as to how this person, service or product improved your business or l ...Jun 29 -
Does PR still have the power?
Public relations remains a mystery to some, but a recent survey shows it still is a powerful tool for communicating your message using the reach of the media. ...Jun 13 -
Build your brand and your business with public speaking
You’ve been given the tremendous opportunity of speaking to a group – or perhaps you’ve requested it and now are wondering what you’ve done to yourself! Public speaking can help build your brand, your business and your credibility as an authority. Take some time to prepare, and you’ll make a great impression. ...Sep 19 -
Give your business visibility a jolt with public relations
You know your services are valuable, but without a big-corporation advertising budget, how do you let your target market – your ideal potential clients – know? Public relations is the art and science of aligning yourself with your publics’ interests and communicating your unique brand and value to them. It’s also the most cost-effective w ...Aug 10 -
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Natalie Tiras
Natalie is the co-owner of CenterPoint Corporate Services. As a successful business owner for over 10 years, she uses her experience to help other entrepreneurs realize their dreams of starting and growing their own business. Her experience with client relations and project management, along with her upbeat style and tireless work ethic allows her clients to focus on what makes them successful – running and building their businesses.
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Benefits to Using a B2B Online Collaborative Community
As a small business owner, you are juggling many tasks in order to successfully run your business. With the newest social media boom, there are many choices as to where to spend your time on the internet. The right B2B Online Collaborative Community can be an excellent resource to help you grow your business to new levels of success! ...Jan 16 -
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Lara Pearson
My Mission is to cultivate brand protection strategies for values driven enterprises. I love practicing trademark law, which has been my profession since 1999. In this capacity, I head the trademark practice at Rimon Law Group (www.Rimonlaw.com) and also serve as the firm's Chief Sustainability Officer.
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Aggressive Jeans
Levi's is very, very serious about its trademarks, including the LEVIS jeans tab. Levi's is so serious in fact, that it has 103 LIVE PTO Records (Levi's first and oldest active registration-- TWO HORSE for jeans -- was filed in 1917.) Levi's also filed 280 trademark infringement lawsuits in U.S. alone in the past 20 years ...Feb 11 -
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michael bosma
Mike founded Bosma Group with the vision of pairing entrepreneurs with world-class tax and accounting professionals. Mike and his team at Bosma Group are dedicated to assisting taxpayers attain higher levels of success through proactive tax planning, and creative restructuring, as well as strategic business solutions.
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How to Get Paid on Time
With the current economic conditions, the collection of accounts receivables is becoming more and more of a challenge. Strengthening your collection procedures may allow you to improve collection rates and shorten the aging days of your accounts receivables. The following suggestions will help your business improve its cash flow and tighten up its ...Jan 18 -
Ensuring Financial Success for Your Business
Can you point your company in the direction of financial success, step on the gas, and then sit back and wait to arrive at your destination? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is no. You simply can't let your business run on autopilot and expect good results. Any successful business owner knows that numerous adjustments--from decisions abo ...Jan 16 -
Tax Changes for 2012: A Checklist
Welcome 2012! As the new year rolls around, it's always a sure bet that there will be changes to the current tax law and 2012 is no different. From health savings accounts to retirement contributions here's a checklist of tax changes to help you plan the year ahead. ...Jan 13 -
Protect Your Business With the Right Insurance
Starting a business is expensive and the capital that you've poured into your company can disappear in an instant if a major weather event damages your offices or one of your products injures someone. Having the right kind of insurance is critical to your business and multiple insurance policies should be in place before you even open your d ...Sep 23 -
Quickbooks - Using the Add/Edit Multiple List Entries Feature
Data entry and modifications in QuickBooks can be tedious. Beginning with QuickBooks 2010 Pro Edition and above, that job got a lot easier. The Add/Edit Multiple List Entries tool does just what its name implies: It lets you add entries to your lists of customers, vendors, services, inventory parts, and non-inventory parts. It also makes changin ...Sep 15 -
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Paul Reidl
Enjoying life as a CoastSider
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The Importance of a Social Media Plan
When I started my solo practice in February 2009 I jumped feet-first into social media because I thought this was a great way to promote my new business quickly and inexpensively. I was soon drowning in posts, Tweets and RSS feeds. I quickly realized that without a social media plan I’d be overwhelmed. I’d never done a social med ...Jun 13 -
To Patent or Not to Patent, That is the Question
I received a telephone call from a potential client, a start-up business. The owner said that he had a new and original process for making a food product. He wanted to patent that immediately. He had spoken with a patent lawyer and was concerned about the cost of preparing the p ...Feb 01 -
How Can My Distributor “Own” My Trademark?
A client came to me with an all-too-common scenario. He had been doing business with a distributor of his wines for many years. He felt that the distributor was no longer supporting the brand and sales were in the toilet. He therefore terminated the distributor. This resulted in a demand letter from the distributor warning him that ...Oct 27 -
Why and What Should I Pay to Register my Trademark?
Some people just don’t like to pay for services. Whether it is an accountant, a lawyer or a mechanic, some folks cringe at paying someone else for something they believe they can do themselves. In my business, many people cringe at paying to register a trademark. They have a visceral sense that it is something they should do them ...Oct 05 -
What is the Attorney-Client Privilege and Why Should I Care?
A client was reluctant to give me all the details about a particular problem. I asked her about that and she said: “I need to keep the details confidential.” “Fair enough,” I replied, “but what you tell me is privileged and I could lose my license to practice if I blabbed your secrets publicly.” Here’s why. ...Sep 08 -
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Creative Marketing & Design
•We are a full service advertising specialties company offering a wide range of promotional items to promote your company.
•We help you find a cost effective way to market and promote your business with custom promotional items that speak to your customers and clients.
What We Do?
We apply over 20 years of experience to work very closely with our clients to effectively promote sales, motivate individuals, and recognize the achievements of specific goals. We creatively utilize products imprinted with the client's name, logo or product name. These products are utilized with the objective of enhancing our client's marketing program to achieve results!
We can assist your marketing objectives with these quality programs:
Corporate recognition programs
Premiums and Incentives
Sales Incentives
Trade Show Programs
Safety Programs
Service Awards
Employee Recognition
Product Introductions
Business Gifts
Sport Tournaments
Company Outings
Thank you programs
E-Commerce Services: online stores and fulfillment services
•Call us today to discuss your promotional product needs. Product specialist direct line: (888) 808-2806
•We help you find a cost effective way to market and promote your business with custom promotional items that speak to your customers and clients.
What We Do?
We apply over 20 years of experience to work very closely with our clients to effectively promote sales, motivate individuals, and recognize the achievements of specific goals. We creatively utilize products imprinted with the client's name, logo or product name. These products are utilized with the objective of enhancing our client's marketing program to achieve results!
We can assist your marketing objectives with these quality programs:
Corporate recognition programs
Premiums and Incentives
Sales Incentives
Trade Show Programs
Safety Programs
Service Awards
Employee Recognition
Product Introductions
Business Gifts
Sport Tournaments
Company Outings
Thank you programs
E-Commerce Services: online stores and fulfillment services
•Call us today to discuss your promotional product needs. Product specialist direct line: (888) 808-2806
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Location Based Social Media Marketing
Location-based social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are generating a lot of buzz lately, and with good reason. ...May 16 -
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Kevin J Danaher
With 30 years experience, Danaher has worked with some of the world's leading international brands, including: General Electric, VISA, Seagram's, Fidelity Investments, General Foods, Avis, as well as hospitals, mid-size and small companies. Certification in strategic planning and leadership development has given Danaher a solid grasp of success principles to move clients into the future and create it. With advanced training in Planning and Developing New Products and Markets, Danaher successfully will re-launch your brand, focusing on the key profit segments of the business.
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Customer Loyalty - A Product That Produces Direct Revenue
Increasing your Customer Loyalty Score has a direct impact on profits. Identifying the characteristics of your Loyal Customers provides a specific metric that will indicate the future strength and direction of your organization. Changes in customer retention rates result in extraordinary improvements in profitability. One survey fou ...Apr 26 -
How Goal Setting and Achievement Expands Your Business
According to a Pricewaterhouse Coopers Survey of 200 companies in 30 countries, only 2.5% of these companies had 100% of their projects come in on time, within budget, to scope, and delivering the right business benefits. Whether you term it project planning and management or goal setting and achievement, this study demonstrates that 97.5% of ...Apr 21 -
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Meggin McIntosh
is excited about the Hat Trick Program - www.HatTrickProgram.com
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Interruptions - Implement These Changes and Decrease the Disruption
If you find that interruptions are causing you significant loss of productivity, then it is time that you made some changes. Wishing that the interruptions would stop won't do you any good. Fuming about them won't do you any good. Complaining about them won't do any good. So, I guess that means you'll need to make some changes. Here are five (plus ...Feb 26 -
Writers - Have You Been Using Mindmapping, Yet? Why Mindmapping Is A Great Alternative to Outlining
I've been a big fan of mindmapping for many years - for many purposes. In graduate school I would use mindmapping as a way of consolidating and studying material that I was learning. As a speaker, I use mindmapping to help me plot out a workshop or keynote presentation. And definitely, as a writer, I use mindmapping constantly to assist me in gener ...Feb 26 -
Determining Your Strengths + Putting Those Strengths to Work for You = Productivity and Profits
Knowing what your strengths are and then working through your strengths will change your business and professional life. Here are three books worth reading (and I have read them more times than I can count). ...Feb 26 -
5 Tips to Start Clearing Out Your Money Clutter
I have written articles about dealing with physical clutter and electronic clutter, both of which can cause you and your business significant problems. But in this article, I want to give you 5 tips for dealing with your money clutter. ...Feb 26 -
Using Mindmapping As a Writer - 5 Reasons Why Mindmapping Helps You More Than Outlining
Once you discover mindmapping - and really give it time and an opportunity to become your new default - you will wonder why you ever used an outline (at least once you got out of high school where outlines may have been required). I am not anti-outline just like I'm not anti-Compaq computers (the old luggable kind like I used to have). It's just th ...Feb 26 -
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Menath Insurance
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Uninsured or Underinsured? The Scary Statistic!
According to Insurance Research Council approximately one in six drivers in the nation may be driving without insurance in 2010!...And just as unnerving is the issue of getting into an accident with someone who has insurance, but not enough to cover the loss. Unfortuantely, too many drivers only carry state minimums on their auto pol ...Aug 15 -
6 - Month or Annual Auto Policies. Which is best for you?
Have you ever received new auto ID cards, but forgotten to put them in your car? Murphy’s Law says if you forget to switch your new ID cards, you’re going to get pulled over. It sure seems like that’s the case sometimes! Annual auto policies renew once a year, which simplify things for you! ...Aug 12 -
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