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8 Common Website Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

When planning an online presence, first have a written plan and design with your marketing goals in mind.

Carefully Plan Before Asking a Business Partner for a ‘Divorce’

Identify alternatives to terminating the company and keep emotions in check.

Befriend Your Financial Statements

Properly formatted financial statements — along with accurate information in those statements — is critical to making good financial decisions for your business.

Plan for Succession While Building Value

Executing a successful succession plan requires a team of experts, including an attorney, CPA, and a financial planner.

Finding, Retaining Top Talent Becoming a Top Challenge

Employers need stellar talent to execute a rebound strategy and drive renewal and growth. Competition for proven managers and business leaders will grow fierce. Organizations that can differentiate themselves with a benefits package unmatched by competitors will be more successful at attracting top talent.

Accomplish More by Building ‘Legacy Teams’

Organizations and teams that commit to becoming legacy teams are rewarded tenfold with deeper relationships, better performance, and improved bottom-line results.

Welcome to 2011: New Deals, New Faces

A change of power in Congress, President Obama and Congress have pushed through a new tax deal that keeps the current tax structure in place and is about 180 degrees away from what was proposed in the fall.

20 Questions with Jaime DiDomenico

Jaime V. DiDomenico, president of N&M Cool Today, discusses the social media, the importance of fleet-vehicle marketing and expanded business opportunities in plumbing, electrical geothermal and solar.

5 Prescriptions to Prevent ‘Hardening of the Attitudes’ Among Employees

Recent research shows that among the least-happy and least-engaged employees, the annual per-person cost of lost productivity due to sick days is more than $28,000, versus only $840 among the happiest and most-engaged employees. Here are five powerful prescriptions for enhancing employee morale and job performance and minimizing job stress.

Social Media Poses Legal Risks for Businesses

Although social media has many benefits, be aware of the employer liability regarding employee’s participation on a social media sites.

Attitude and Focus Beat the Economic Blues

Many contractors I know did very well in 2010 despite the economy and despite all of the bad news in the media. What made the difference for those who did well and those who didn't? Attitude.

Make Your Move to Mobile

The features and benefits of almost all the systems that we investigated without going into the technical details or revealing specific provider names. This is certainly something you will want to research yourself.

Customize Your Mobile Devices With Bridges To Other Software

Alpine Mechanical Services uses the BlackBerry smart phone to connect information gathered by our technicians with our office and ultimately the retail client. This simple communication is really not simple. It involves off-the-shelf technology with the BlackBerry. Here's how we do it.

Lay a Strong Foundation With Business Ethics

Ethics and their roots have practical applications for business beyond just a statement on paper. Here is my explanation of how Conditioned Air’s core values benefit everyone involved in our business: Integrity Integrity is always doing the right thing for people in a truthful way.

3 Steps to Attracting Clients Online

What do you need to attract prospects online? A great BOD! No joke. BOD stands for Brand, Outcome, and Differentiator.

Top 10 Strategic Errors in Your Sales Process

These are the top mistakes made by sales reps and how to correct them.

Why The Trillion-Plus-Dollar Federal Deficit Matters

Members of our industry won’t always agree on matters of government and public funding, but the federal deficit is something we can all rally around protest, and work to reduce.

20 Questions, The Best Of...

The best of 20 Questions features answers from eleven of our favorite interviews of the last several years.

Use Trusts For Continuity Planning and Avoiding Probate

Trusts can provide benefits even for incorporated businesses.