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Working with family can be profitable and fun

Summer’s almost here – are you ready to put your kids to work? Got a spouse lounging around the house who needs something to do? Is dad retired and underfoot? Round them all up and put them to work… and the IRS will reward you with tax breaks that can really add up. Teach Your [...]

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Is There a T.I.G.E.R. in Your Office? 5 Things Your Business Dashboard Must Do

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There are hundreds of ways to look our business – we can spend hours staring at financial statements and ratios. But financial statements alone won’t help us make progress…what an entrepreneur really needs is a map. A great “business dashboard” can be that map, showing us not just where we are, but also where we [...]

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6 Ways Tablets (Should) Power Your Business

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Small business success means being more productive than the competition: Faster, better, cheaper. And there’s no tool that will make a business faster, better and more productive than a tablet computer. If your business is not tablet-ized, now is the time. Don’t shudder when you think about splurging on a fancy gadget and learning new [...]

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Screaming Won’t Help when Too Much Cash Kills Your Business

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I’m embarrassed to tell you that I actually screamed at a salesman over the phone today.  It takes a lot to get me worked up, but in this case I broke.  I simply wanted to PAY this guy, and he could not take payment over the phone. ME: “What? No invoicing?  No credit card?  No Paypal, SquarePay, [...]

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Take Your Finances Mobile: 4 Top Apps for Accounting On the Go

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Mobile devices are the busy entrepreneurs best friend.  Just as mobile devices and apps have made it possible to take your operations on the road, the new generation of apps is making it possible to take your business finances too. But its more than just being mobile. Smartphones and tablets are now doing some of [...]

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Business Strategies to Grow Bigger, Faster, Smarter: Step 4 of my Business Tune-Up Program

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I’ve often said that you should not start any business without a business plan. So are you surprised that I put this strategy step at the end of my Business Tune Up Program? There’s a good reason. A “strategic growth plan” is entirely different than a start-up business plan, and plotting strategy takes a deep [...]

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You agreed to WHAT? Know the Unknowable before Signing Away $ Millions

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At lunch yesterday, I had the guilty pleasure of hearing “war stories” from a group of lawyers, accountants and bankers. Sometimes lunch with this crowd is yawn-inducing, but these guys were on a tear and each told of an unlucky client who had accidentally lost millions in a business transaction. My favorite story was of [...]

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Keep your Sanity and your Money with this One Simple Bookkeeping Mantra

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Its amazing how complicated you can make bookkeeping if you try. Apply for a handful of credit cards, get two or three bank accounts, and carry arround a checkbook … and you’re on your way to a life of late payments and bounced checks. There’s a better way. In fact, keeping your books straight in [...]

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Kindle Apps Setting Fire to Business Productivity

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### UPDATE: Amazon has changed access to many of the apps featured in this article since December 2011, when this article was written. Our recommended apps were compatible with the Kindle at that time, but many are no longer compatible. We hope this article can inspire you to find similar apps that will help your [...]

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The big piece of paper that changed my business forever

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People say that writing things down creates a certain kind of magic. It must be true.  Some of the most powerful magic I’ve ever seen came from a 24″ x 36″ piece of paper and a colored marker that became my business dashboard.   After I created a business dashboard, nothing was ever the same. [...]

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Escape Quickbooks Jail: 4 new alternatives to accounting software

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I love QuickBooks. It’s fast, powerful, and full featured.  I even interviewed the guy who designed it.  But I also hate QuickBooks.  In fact, it’s so complex that I hired an employee just to manage the books and run the reports. That’s pretty sick, right? Its a $300 program that requires a $30,000 a year person to get the information [...]

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