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Whether you've hired a large marketing team to work for you or you're doing it all on your own, it's crucial to your profitability to make sure that your marketing is reaching its potential. If you're doing your own marketing, these tools will help to save you time, streamline your business and make your properties enticing.
During the last five years, the number of audits of businesses with less than $10 million in assets has increased 30 percent.
In the United States, one in four employers has a policy limiting use of social network sites, according to a 2010 Manpower Inc. survey on social networks. Of employers who have implemented formal policies, 70 percent of U.S. respondents and 63 percent worldwide said the policy was most effective in preventing loss of productivity.
What makes an effective team? Research conducted over many decades identifies the management practices that produce the most effective teams. The findings from that research have been distilled into key behaviors that can make you a better manager and improve your team.
Tax-exempt organizations may be eligible for a credit worth up to 35 percent of healthcare premiums they pay employees in 2010 as part of the healthcare law signed earlier this year. The credit is specifically targeted to help small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that primarily employ low- and moderate-income workers.
Have you taken a look at your practice website lately? If more than a year has passed since someone has reviewed all your site's pages, it's likely that some parts of your website are out of date. Some key questions can guide your review of this important communications tool.
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Monday night, President Obama announced a "framework" for considering a number of significant tax proposals, which could become reality on short notice. Also, other important aspects of tax law have changed recently or may change in the future and be of particular significance to you. So you'll need to stay alert.
A recent case involving the deductibility of compensation paid to the controlling shareholder of a corporation concluded with mixed results. Given similar fact patterns for the two years at issue, the Tax Court decided for the company in one year, for the IRS in the other.
Improving Business Operations - Listen to your employees' complaints about tedious tasks. Their ideas may result in eliminating, modifying or outsourcing the work.
Your Savings - Reinvest dividends and interest. Remember, the key to building interest is compounding, compounding and more compounding.
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