Tracking your website's performance is important to monitoring your marketing efforts. What do you do though when you find that your reports are different?
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Posted: 2/12/2009 | Comments (3)
Start with establishing an internet presence! Small Business tips about your company's website and the important information to have on it.
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Posted: 2/12/2009 | Comments (0)
Small Business tips about your customers, not you.
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Posted: 2/11/2009 | Comments (1)
Given the rising cost of healthcare to small business, the SBE Council has released its Healthcare Policy Cost Index, which ranks the states according to their overall healthcare costs.
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Posted: 2/10/2009 | Comments (0)
Small Business tips about finding your target and defining elements.
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There will soon be a vote on the Senate version of President Obama’s so-called stimulus plan, on the list of social and governmental programs, the token tax cuts and the even more token nods to small business. Question: If this bill doesn’t stimulate small business, why is everyone calling it a stimulus bill?
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Posted: 2/9/2009 | Comments (0)
The media has been talking about the Buy American provisions in the much-debated stimulus bill, but there is similar issue under debate in the Halls of Congress, the 1-HB Guest Worker visa issue. The question is this: As American unemployment continues to break records, is there still a place for foreign workers in America? Is it now time to Hire American?
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Posted: 2/6/2009 | Comments (37)
This week saw organized labor making a big push in Congress for changes that would make it easier for their organizers to come in and unionize your business. Today, we will look at a practice called “Salting,” a legal, if covert, way for unions to infiltrate a business and give you, the business owner, some tips on how to stop it.
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Posted: 2/6/2009 | Comments (0)
With all the legal changes coming out of Washington, it is hard to keep up. That is where a good business attorney comes in. If you don't have one, now is the time to find someone who can help you navigate the new regulatory terrain. Here are some things to look for.
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Posted: 2/5/2009 | Comments (2)
Buy American! That is what is being debated in the halls of the Senate this week. What they seek is a balance between the needs of the global economy and the stimulation of the American economy and the future of small exporters could well hang in the balance. Is it more important to keep the global markets in mind or to build wealth here at home by buying American?
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Our president is stepping out onto a regulatory tightrope. Sensitive to the public outrage over executive pay, bonuses and perks at companies receiving taxpayer bailout funds, he is proposing to cap those salaries and perks, but is that necessarily a good idea in a free market economy?
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Posted: 2/4/2009 | Comments (0)
I once had a job that required a daily productivity report. The idea was that if you had to tell the boss everything you did—in 15 minute increments no less—then you would be more productive. Do you think this improved anyone’s productivity?
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Posted: 2/3/2009 | Comments (0)
The Prime Minister of Australia has come out with it, a call for a New World Order in which Democratic Socialism would be the norm since, according to the PM, the free market simply cannot be trusted. Maybe he is right, and a new world order really is necessary, but is it the democratic socialism that he is calling for? Not a chance.
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Posted: 2/2/2009 | Comments (0)
Will the deepening recession force a realignment from a unified national economy to one where local interests predominate? What would that mean for small business and is it the solution to our troubles?
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Posted: 1/30/2009 | Comments (1)
It has been a nice little break, with our inboxes pretty clean and our spam filters pulling part-time duty, but those quiet days are over as spammers have come back with even more sophisticated and dangerous missives aimed right at your computer.
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Posted: 1/29/2009 | Comments (0)
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