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What are the pros and cons of using QuickBooks?

Oct 14, 2014 By Rick Gossett

With user-friendly software such as QuickBooks available, many business owners feel they should be able to keep their records on their own, even as they wrestle with finding the time and wonder if they’re doing things correctly.

Filed Under: Tax & Accounting

What is an effective way of motivating employees to understand that they are not cost effective until they generate 5 times their pay?

Sep 26, 2014 By Will Adams

While it is important for workers to experience transparency in their company and understand where the company is and where they need to be, you also do not want to attempt to motivate employees, especially sales team employees, through fear of losing their job if they don’t make more sales.

Filed Under: Human Resources

I am doing bookkeeping for a restaurant, are the tips received and reported by the waitress taxable for unemployment purposes?

Sep 15, 2014 By Rick Gossett

Tips reported by a restaurant waitress to an employer are taxable for unemployment tax calculation purposes, subject to certain thresholds and guidelines. Also, there are additional tax treatment considerations for different types of food service businesses and tip and gratuity procedures that…

Filed Under: Tax & Accounting

Where could I locate a non-compete and non-solicitation document that I could customize and have employees of a Georgia-based business agree to and be bound by?

Sep 5, 2014 By Bill Wortman

Non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements or separate clauses in employment agreements are common in hiring situations. However, it is important to note that a number of considerations can affect whether a non-compete agreement is a lawful and binding contract, including state and local law which varies as to the terms and enforceability of non-compete agreements

Filed Under: Legal

What’s the best way for my test-only smog station business to negotiate a deal with other auto repair shops?

Aug 27, 2014 By Bill Wortman

Networking and cross-marketing with complementary (transmission, air conditioning, body shops, towing services, etc.) auto repair businesses and other parties in the industry can be very helpful in reaching more of your target market customers as a test-only smog station.

Filed Under: Marketing

Am I on the right track with my elevator speech?

Aug 19, 2014 By Bill Wortman

You are correct that you need to make it clear exactly how you help your clients and/or exactly what your mission is. Also, if you can leave people wanting to learn more, that is a plus.
“Solutions” is vague business jargon in our opinion so you may want to consider how to focus more effectively on the benefit that is derived from your services or on how it helps clients rather than on the mechanism.

Filed Under: Marketing

What is the fastest way to get my credit cleaned up?

Aug 12, 2014 By Bill Wortman

Credit laws provide for fixing errors on credit reports and The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) also establishes various timeframes under which both negative and positive entries on a consumer credit report must be removed or “cycled-off” the report.

Filed Under: Legal

I have a storefront selling both retail and private label herbal supplements. I am considering direct sales, where do I start?

Aug 7, 2014 By Will Adams

Network marketing, or MLM, is now a large and mature industry with numerous offerings. Though consumer products (household items, skin care, etc.) are marketed differently than business products, certain basic marketing techniques or principles apply to essentially all MLMs.

Filed Under: Marketing

Where can I buy the lowest price international domain names that have country extensions?

Aug 4, 2014 By Ed Fox

You can view international domain pricing through well-known and reputed domain service companies such as GoDaddy, Network Solutions and 101 Domain, each of which we have provided a link for below with pricing information.

Filed Under: Marketing

I am an attorney and have a security concern about using the office suite’s copying machines. Do copy machines retain any sort of history of the images they copy?

Jul 29, 2014 By Ed Fox

Digital copiers manufactured since 2002 typically have a hard drive or drives that store data about the documents copied, printed, scanned, faxed or emailed on or through the machine. If you don’t take steps to protect that data, it can be stolen from the hard drive, either by remote access or by extracting the data once the drive has been removed.

Filed Under: Technology

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