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9 Inventory Management Mistakes… One Easy Solution
Managing excess inventory is a challenge in even the most efficient organizations. Overage issues can drain profitability and take your focus away from core business priorities. Liquidating stock or even giving it…
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Being the Best in Business
Everyday, ambitious and optimistic individuals of all ages are catapulting into the business world. Whether it’s entrepreneurship or hoping to flourish in an already established setting, there can never be enough advice…
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Profitability Crisis
Flailing Consumer Confidence a Key Factor in Revenue Loss There’s been much researched and reported about why businesses don’t turn a profit—some chronically operating “in the red” month after month until failure…
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Seven Tips to Make a Company More Creditworthy
People often ask me about importance of business credit scores. Quite simply, financial institutions won’t make loans to a person or business that is unlikely to pay the money back. Establishing a…
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Who’s Driving Your Bus
Imagine you are driving a bus. Are your eyes on the road ahead of you? Are your hands firmly on the wheel? Are you focused on the road with a clear map…
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How to Prevent and Navigate Software Audits
If your company licenses computer software—as almost all companies do—the software vendor or licensor likely has the contractual right to audit your use of the licensed software. These audits, if they are…
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Interview With Governor John Hickenlooper
Thank you, Governor, for the honor of interviewing you for the American Business Magazine for small business owners. You’re one of the few governors who was a small business owner before running…
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Why the IRS’ Voluntary Certification Program for Professional Employer Organizations Matters
Given the history of the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry, it is understandable why any opportunity for a PEO to demonstrate its professional and fiscal integrity would be welcomed by responsible PEOs…
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Protect Yourself and Your Employees Against Workplace Violence
All one needs to do, sadly, is to watch the evening news to realize the prevalence of workplace violence in the United States. According to the FBI, more than two million workers…
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Visual Privacy and the Mobile Worker
Securing the display of sensitive information among a growing mobile workforce The mobile workforce today exceeds 96 million U.S. workers and will grow to more than 105 million in 2020, according to…
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Employee Benefits Intel: 5 Key ‘Make or Break’ Life Insurance Trends
New laws, emerging technology, fiscal uncertainty and changing marketplace perceptions are making big impacts on the life insurance industry, changing the landscape for employee benefit programs and end consumers in many ways.…
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You Are The CEO Of Your Life – So Take Charge
Maybe you’re stuck in a dead-end job. Maybe you’re living what seems to be an existence without direction. When life fails to meet expectations, it’s easy to throw up your hands or…
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Is Your Business Growing Too Fast?
How to Maintain Your Market-Share Mojo Extremely rapid growth for a business might sound good, but it can be a mixed blessing. Certainly, high growth yields greater returns, offering shareholders five times…
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How to Invest Like an Entrepreneur
Mastering Nine Key Traits Essential characteristics embodying the very spirit of entrepreneurial investors, capturing the dynamic essence of self-starters to ensure that entrepreneurs–and others who share their groundbreaking spirit–will always have the…
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Harvard Business School and the Business Leader:
How Technology is Bringing Business Education There aren’t many reality-based television shows I can tolerate for very long, but one of them is “Shark Tank.” As someone who finds business and capitalism…
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Six Things Business Owners Should Ask BEFORE Selling
American business owners are breathing a collective sigh of relief as the post-recession rebound officially sets in, and for many who weathered the economic downturn, earnings have increased, profits are up and…
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5 Email Missteps Every Online Marketer MUST Know
Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. However, with this approach there is plenty of room for error amid an industry rife with…
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How Implementation Trumps Strategy
You can have the best strategy on the globe and not achieve your expected results. Occasionally companies operate successfully with little thought to strategy. A great product or service launched at an…
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Overcoming Big Problems for Small Businesses
When running a small to medium-sized business, there’s always a share of large challenges. While operating this type of business comes with its own set of issues, focusing on best business practices…
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St. Croix’s First Family of Flight
Billy Bohlke’s work environment fits like a glove, and he can make it move at mach speed. Today the 37-year-old President and Chief Pilot of Bohlke International Airways in St. Croix will…
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Dissecting Presidential Tax Policies
It’s easy to get caught up in the commotion of the 2016 presidential election. On one hand, you have real estate mogul-turnedreality television star-turned-politician Donald Trump. On the other hand, you’ve got…
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Diving into the Deep End in Eleuthera
In 2006, Tricia Ferguson received a desperate phone call from a girlfriend working in Harbour Island in the Bahamas. “My friend needed a personal chef to prepare meals for Richard Gere. Up…
