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How to Have a Successful Tax Season
Sleeves rolled up and PC humming, it was time to do my taxes. I had just started out in business and figured on saving myself a little money by not hiring a CPA my first year in business for myself. I'm not sure what I was thinking but I definitely had a problem on my hands. I had purchase orders, receipted, accounts payable and receivable information, overhead costs and everything else all over the place and still had a business to run. That year, the only form I had filled out in time was my extension.
Reduce Employee Turnover Costs
There are many statistics and complex methodologies to support the notion that employee turnover costs are seriously affecting mid-sized enterprises. On the low end, the Hay Group reports that the cost to replace an employee is 50% of their total compensation, including benefits. On the high-end, Hewitt & Associates puts the cost between 100-150% of annual compensation. While executive management and sales staff are more costly to replace, churn in any function affects the bottom-line.
Ten Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
We all make mistakes. Much of marketing is innovation, trying something to see how effective it will be in your market. Often we don’t even know we’ve made a mistake until afterwards when we see the cost and no return. Here are ten avoidable marketing mistakes you don’t need to make in your solo business.

A Few Crucial Strategies to Beat the Recession
While economic turmoil continues to intensify, savvy business owners find ways to sustain and grow their revenues. Even tough economic times present opportunities for the ones who use creative strategies to promote themselves. After all, it is possible to turn challenges into opportunities and take your enterprise to the next level, despite gloomy economic forecasts. The article below will inspire you to take action, overcome the odds and achieve the success you deserve.

What The Heck Is Podcasting And What Can It Do For Your Business
Podcasting is the new hype these days with many claiming it to be the future of internet and communication business. However, for many this is at best a vague term that is difficult to understand and even more frightening to use. This article will certainly help to develop a basic understanding of what podcasting actually is and how it can be used to promote your business.
Managing Employees Is A Little Like Herding Cats
I hope you have a full head of hair now, because depending on how quickly you get a grip on this situation, you could end up bald in a very short time. And if you're starting out bald all you can do is put on a cap and read on.
Mastermind Your Way To Business Success
While I’m a firm believer in goals, I’m not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions; mainly because it has been my experience that most resolutions are repeated year after year and forgotten by the time we sober up on January 2nd.
Go Ahead and Fire Your Customer
We wind up with unprofitable customers not because of the price we're charging them, but because of the intensity of their demands and requests. To be able to determine which customers need to be "fired," you must become more discerning of customers who place too many demands on you and/or other people in your company.

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Stop Selling Start Positioning How Marketing Pros Thrive in the Best and Worst of Times
If you are like me, you have taken a zillion sales seminars ... learned all the “secret techniques” ... listened to all the motivational tapes of top salespeople (like Tom Hopkins) ... rehearsed your phone script with a mirror in front of you, and the bottomline is “You still hate sales”! I have been a highly successful business owner for 21 years and have NEVER gotten any business through “selling.” Read this article and learn my secret to thriving in business for the last 2 decades.
Emotional Mastery: Mindset Secrets for Maximum Propulsion in Your Business
Imagine ... * Being at the top of your mental game with volition * Transforming every fear into empowering emotions and actions * Fueling your confidence and motivation on a daily basis, what would that do to your performance ... your success ... your bottomline results? "He who masters his emotions masters the triumphs in his business." In our next edition, you will learn emotional mastery secrets used only by a handful of business superstars. This article is a "must" for any executive or business owner who wants to rise to the top of their business game and achieve peak performance.
Guide to Quality Performance Reviews
Recently, Randstad's 2002 Employee Review showed that 92% of employees with regular performance reviews were satisfied with their manager or supervisor while only 72% of those with no regular reviews were satisfied. Repeatedly, we see supervisor effectiveness as one of the top reasons employees leave an organization. The cost of either an employee loss or just a loss in productivity from supervisor ineffectiveness could be very painful to the bottomline. So, if this statistic is true, do we really want 20% of our workforce to be dissatisfied with our managers simply because they do not have regular performance reviews? If not, then we need to provide managers with techniques and tools to make performance reviews less painful and more beneficial.

Individual Improvement = Organizational Improvement
If you could find a tool that would provide beneficial feedback to employees that would lead to performance improvement and bottomline results to the organization, would you take advantage of it? Many organizations have found such a tool and found many uses for it. For a number of years, this tool was viewed as a fad but it has survived that first impression and become a tool for organizational improvement. This tool is multi-rater feedback or 360 degree feedback.

How Do I Buy a Domain Name and Other Beginner Questions
The Internet marketing questions for beginners are practically endless, and can feel overwhelming. Yet the real bottomline issue is how can people start making money online?

Are You Worrying about Retention During the Recession? You'd Better Be!
Is retention an issue for your company? Recently when I've asked this question of folks, their immediate response is a loud "NO" quickly followed by "employees are lucky to have a job right now. We don't have to worry about retaining them. They aren't going anywhere." In a sarcastic tone, I quickly retort with something like, if you were to lose a good employee right now, what would that turnover cost you? After they try to calculate it and get crazy numbers that are so far off base, I'll share the simple rule of thumb of 50 - 150% of the employee's annual salary. Can you afford that expense to hit the bottomline right now just to lose one employee? If that isn't enough to make you think about retention right now, let's talk a little more about the impact of losing even more employees when the economy picks up and the labor market is shor
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