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Run Your Home Office Like a Business
There are two major advantages to running a business out of your home: reducing overhead and taking advantage of some of the tax benefits that are available. That doesn't mean, however, you shouldn't treat your home-based enterprise like a regular business. Read more »

Think Strategically To Define Your Vision
Most business owners have a vision for their enterprise but often lack the strategies that will enable them to realize that vision. What they need to do is to commence the process of strategic thinking. Read more »

Have a Vision for Success
For a business owner to be successful, he or she needs to have a vision. In other words, what is driving your business? Without it, how do you measure what you have created against what you originally intended? Read more »

Due Diligence will Minimize Your Risk
Everyone does due diligence. When you go to the grocery store, you’re comparing products and prices to get the best value for your money.  Why then, do so many owners fail to complete proper due diligence when purchasing or selling a business? Read more »

Plan for Success
Success in business doesn't happen by accident. It takes planning. Yet too often small business owners and sole proprietors get so caught up in day-to-day operations that they fail to make time to plan for their future. Read more »

Protect Your Business from Hidden Risks
Owners and managers of growing businesses are often so focused on customers, driving sales and expanding business, they fail to address internal issues that can also have an enormous impact on their business. Read more »

Weathering Economic Uncertainty
Read the headlines lately? You don’t have to be Chicken Little to believe the sky is falling. It’s hard to be optimistic when headlines are rife with reports about our plummeting economy. Read more »

Positioning Your Business for a Successful 2009
A new year means a new start for 2009—and a hangover from 2008. I hear a lot of pessimism from business owners: “Will I need to lay off employees?”; “Will my company survive?”; “Where’s the stock market going?” Like any other cycle, the economy will turn around. Read more »