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Do you look forward to the Hard Days?

Picture from Official US Navy Imagery

It’s funny what you can learn from your kids.

My daughter is a freshman in high school and has really developed a passion for distance running – she loved Cross Country in the fall (made Varsity

10 Mar

Three areas to Spring Clean in your business…no brooms

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photo by Elizabeth Albert via Flickr

It only takes a couple warm days to get a serious case of Spring fever and if you live in the Midwest you got a good taste of it over the last few

03 Mar

5 Examples to get you thinking about Better Marketing

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If you’re like most business owners, you didn’t start your business because you really liked marketing (unless of course you started a marketing business…).

But if you’ve been in business for any time at all, you’ve probably realized that it’s pretty important to find ways to get

24 Feb

4 Ways to get your business audited by the IRS

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Tax season is shifting into high gear. This is also the time of year we are most likely to think about the potential of being audited by the IRS. Even though the potential for an Audit is only about 1% for business owners, the simple math

17 Feb