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How to Pick Article Topics
I’ve already written about why it’s important to write articles, and it seems a lot of you agree because I keep getting emails saying that you want to write articles but don’t know what to write about.
Success Tips for Travel Write-offs

Success Tips for Travel Write-offs
 - When traveling for business OR when traveling for pleasure, the tax rules are pretty clear. But what about if you mix business and pleasure in your travels? Can you, as a freelancer, fly to Paris and work from there and write off your trip? Can you spend a few days at a conference and a couple days at your parents' house and write off the entire week? The tax code is complex but the IRS doesn't like mistakes! In this article, you'll build a solid foundational base of knowledge about travel write-offs and you'll get some guidance about where to go to learn more.

21st Century Leadership and The One Page Business Plan
We believe one of the major oversights in business in the last 30 years is the failure of management to ask the average manager, professional and/or employee to WRITE a plan for their job, department, project, program, and/or their function. Sr. executives have always been required to write "strategic plans" albeit they have not always done an excellent job, they were required to write a plan.
First Write-Off
Write offs are difficult to avoid. Most business, sooner or later, will see some expected income lost. Most of the time it is real loss, since you lost either billable hours or inventory. Although it is difficult to look at it in any good way, you may be able to find ways of making lemonade out of this lemmon.
Accounts Receivable Collections: How to Get Late-Paying Customers To Pay On Time
It's great when accounts receivable collections roll in on time, but when they slow down, you still need to replace goods you've sold, pay your employees (on time), and pay the rent and all the other expenses of running a business. Most bad debt write-offs come from old accounts receivable, not current ones-the older the balance, the less chance it will be collected. So your best bet is to encourage your customers to pay accounts receivable on time. "That's helpful," you're probably thinking, "but how do I do that, exactly?" Here are five ideas that may help you improve accounts receivable collections.
Which Salespeople Use Bad Judgement and Burn Bridges?
You want your salespeople to get decisions instead of taking stalls, put-offs and objections. Some of your salespeople are better at this than others. I've written extensively about the difference between the required skills versus the strengths that support closing, as well as recognizing and dealing with put-offs. Today, I will discuss the difference between not getting the desired reaction or behavior, not getting a decision and burning a bridge.
Lesson #1: Does Your Business Have an SCA?
The first of 5 key lessons that every budding entrepreneur shoul learn. The five lessons are taken from Enterprise and Venture Capital: A Business Builders' and Investors' Handbook 5th Edition Allen & Unwin 2009 by Christopher Golis. The book is based on his 25 years as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist and his talk 5000 Business Plans, 50 deals, 25 Write-offs which he regularly gives to entrepreneurial workshops.
Lesson #2: Lease the Pencils
Lesson #2 of Chris Golis's talk 5000 Business plan, 50 deals, 25 write-offs lessons learnt from 25 years as a venture capitalist. Money talks but cash screams.
Lesson #3 Know The Game Part I
Lesson #3 of Chris Golis's talk 5000 Business plan, 50 deals, 25 write-offs lessons learned from 25 years as a venture capitalist. It is 1986. I had been a VC for two years in Sydney and was making my first visit to Silicon Valley. How I finally learned the game.
Lesson 5 Grab the Golden Ring
The fifth and final lesson taken from 25 years in the venture capital industry and based on my talk 5000 business plans, 50 deals, 25 write-offs. In this lesson I describe how three people (including yours truly) failed to grab the golden ring in the merry go-round of life.
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