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1. Protect your Social Security number, credit card and debit card numbers, PINs (personal identification numbers), passwords and other personal information. A thief can use these details to order checks or credit cards, apply for loans or otherwise commit fraud using your name.
Among the preventive measures you can take: Don't provide financial and other personal information in response to an unsolicited phone call, fax, letter or e-mail-it could be from a fraud artist masquerading as a legitimate business person or government official. Be particularly cautious with your Social Security number (SSN). While your employer and financial institutions will need your SSN for tax purposes, you have the right to refuse requests for your SSN from merchants and service providers (who have other ways to identify you). Also, if your state puts SSNs on driver's licenses, find out if you can use another number. To learn more, click here.
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Want to know an effective way to grow your customer base? Get your current customers and members to talk positively about you to their friends and family. Word of mouth is a main tenet of referral marketing and a task made a bit easier with today's many social media tools. It's like when you get a stack of business cards from a company that's hoping you'll give them to family and friends as a referral. Your presence on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and the content you post or share, is like a business card that can be easily referred to and "passed along" to friends and associates. Getting your customers to refer you can be as simple as sharing good content that's worth passing along... Click here to read more... |
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Please join us in welcoming our Featured Member:
Hanson's Installations, Inc.
Hanson's Installations, Inc. is a specialized commercial labor subcontractor that provides a team of experienced craftsman, tools, equipment, and project management necessary to coordinate and install a wide variety of casework and millwork products. Let us use our experience to help you choose from a virtually limitless product line that will meet the needs of your particular project. We are a good first point of contact. Click here to learn more... |
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Your Featured Member Benefit - Provident Credit UnionBenefit from credit union membership. Provident Credit Union has joined together with other credit unions, nationwide, in a cooperative effort to bring you a new choice in financial convenience, "The CU Service Centers Network." You can now perform many of your financial transactions at branch locations of other credit unions belonging to the network.
With so many convenient locations, you will be able to access your credit union account even if you travel or relocate hundreds of miles from Provident. To find a CU Service Centers location, visit our website at www.providentcu.org, click on "Directory", "Branches", then the "CU Service Centers Tab".
Did you know? You can apply online for membership at Provident Credit Union. Click the link below for the application and more details! Click here to learn more! |
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Washington Watch
Export Business Planner (SBA)
Export Business Planner-- For Your Small Business
The Export Business Planner is a free, customizable tool for small business owners who are exploring exporting. Using the planner, you can work through the critical processes of export readiness and planning via a ready-made, easily accessible document that can be updated and referenced time and again as your export business grows. If you have a successful product or service you may be able to increase sales and profit by exporting.
A downloadable tool to save and customize
- How to determine your export readiness
- Training and counseling information
- Worksheets for global market research
- Financing information and options
- Customizable export and marketing plan templates
To learn more, click here...
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