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Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: Time Management Step 1: Get the Mindset

Small Business tips today discuss time management. Step 1: Get the right mindset.

Tags: small business, time management, mindset, time

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Posted: 7/27/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Enforcing Your Non-Compete Agreements

As an employer you want to protect yourself from unfair competition, ensure that your trade secrets remain secret and that your employees remain loyal to you and your company. By following these tips, with the advice your attorney and benefits professional, you can lay a contractual and fiscal groundwork to make sure your company remains as safe as possible from competition arising from former employees.

Tags: small business, non-compete agreements, contract enforcement

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Posted: 7/27/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Use Facebook to Market Your Business

Small Business tips today about how to use Facebook to market your business.

Tags: small business, facebook, page

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Posted: 7/24/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Conflict Resolution: 3 Tips to Returning Harmony to Your Business

There will always be conflict, but knowing how to handle it and being able to bring the parties involved back to productive work will save you a great deal—on a great many levels—in the long run.

Tags: small business, conflict resolution

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Posted: 7/24/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Write an Effective Tweet

Small Business tips today about writing an effective tweet.

Tags: small business, twitter, tweet, follow, twitter search

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Posted: 7/23/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Space to Grow: Small Business and Commercial Space Flight

NASA's search for a commercial vendor that can handle the engineering and operation of cargo rockets for the International Space Station is bringing small and mid-sized businesses into what was once the sole domain of NASA and the Air Force and stands as a tribute to the quality, innovation and low-cost that small business can deliver.

Tags: small business, spacex, commercial space flight, nasa, orbital sciences

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Posted: 7/23/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Write an E-Newsletter

Small Business tips today about how to write an e-newsletter.

Tags: small business, e-newsletter, customers, content

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Posted: 7/22/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Treasury Getting into the SBA Loan Business

Treasury officials want to use bailout money to buy small business loans in an effort to assure lenders and financiers that reliable funding will be available even if private investors begin to balk again. Will it work? There are still a lot of questions to be answered.

Tags: small business, sba loans, treasury, bailout

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Posted: 7/22/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Write for a Blog

Small Business tips about how to write for a blog.

Tags: small business, blog, foundation post, rss, xml

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Posted: 7/21/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Write a Press Release

Small Business tips about how to write a press release.

Tags: press release, contact, boilerplate, business

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Posted: 7/20/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Fair Compensation: How to Know What to Pay Your Employees

It is one of the toughest decisions you have to make, what to pay someone, especially a professional. Are you overpaying them? Underpaying? What else do you offer, other than money, to make them feel well compensated for coming in each and every day, perks that make up for less-than-stellar wages? These are important questions, especially during recessionary times and ones you should address. After all, cherry-picking season will not last forever.

Tags: small business, employment, wages, pay, compensation

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Posted: 7/20/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: Google Apps Standard Edition

Small Business tips about Google Apps Standard Edition: a free service for groups of up to 50 people. This is a paid service once you exceed the 50 person limit.

Tags: google apps, standard edition, google, intranet

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Posted: 7/17/2009 | Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper

Naming Your Business: Things You Need to Know

Like everything else associated with your new business, the name you give it takes thought and planning. In fact, it is something you should have been working on since Day One. Here are a few things you need to know.

Tags: small business, business name, domain name

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Posted: 7/17/2009 | Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: Google Calendar

Small Business tips about small businesses using Google Calendar to organize your life.

Tags: google, calendar, organize, tasks, conflicts, plan

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Posted: 7/16/2009 | Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper

The Model Employee Con

Erick was a model employee, too perfect it seems. Turns out he was an organized crime soldier sent to infiltrate a California gas station, where he worked for 8 months, placed a credit-card skimmer and then vanished with cash, cigarettes, a laptop and the broken trust of the people he worked with.

Tags: small business, organized crime, model employee scam, erick

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Posted: 7/16/2009 | Comments (0)