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When to Quit Your Day-Job to Focus on Your New Business

At what point should I leave my day-job to focus 100% on my new business? I’m being stretched thinner and thinner every day and find myself physically unable to give 110% to each of my responsibilities, and yet the prospect of leaving a stable, well-paying job in a recession is downright scary if not completely asinine. Then again, I think that a recession is actually the best time to start a new business.

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Should Small Businesses Use a Payroll Service? Thoughts for Minimizing Your Risks

There are many “vectors” pulling on the owner of a small business. You have to market the company, get the business, do the work, and get paid. The sales to payment cycle can be months long, during which you have to manage the cash flow to cover your costs and pay your employees or sub-contractors, before you can take money for yourself. One of the many non-billable tasks that you might de-prioritize are employment taxes…

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Small Business Owners: Back Up Your Data!

Perhaps you remember the episode of “Sex in the City” where Carrie Bradshaw turns on her Mac laptop, only to see the “Sad Mac”, indicating a serious hardware failure. This means that she cannot access any of her files. Her beau chastises her for not backing up her computer. She conjectures that backing up is a ritual for some strange secret society – because she has never done it and never heard about it…

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The Year Ahead: Make Better Decisions

2008 and several years preceding it will not go down in history as the best years for good decisions. So let’s make 2009 the Year of Better Decisions. Tom Davenport at Harvard Business Online wrote a great piece on how to improve your decision making process in 2009, and I suggest you give it a read and apply it to your world…

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More Reasons Why Now Is The Time For Hatching Something New

Neil Davidson at Red Gate Software published this post on OnStartups in response to Jason Cohen’s post, 6 reasons why this economy is good for startups. Neil chidingly curses Jason for beating him to the punch, but comes up with 6 more great reasons for why now is as good a time as any for startups…

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What Obama’s Proposed Tax Cuts Mean for Small Businesses

Here’s a welcome report for entrepreneurs this new year: President-elect Barack Obama’s massive stimulus plan is expected to include three key tax breaks for small-business owners…

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An Introduction to SEO for CEOs (and everyone else)

If you’re like most other CEOs, the term “search engine optimization” will mean very little. Either that or it means expense! But it doesn’t have to be that way. If you feel like you’re standing in a dark room handing money to strangers to get you in the search engines, then this article is for you…

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2009 Will Be an Economic Engine for Change

2009 is shaping up to be a trigger for an unprecedented surge of innovation that may be one of the most important turning points in the last 100 years. Just as a forest fire can reset nature’s lifecycle, a recession can clear the business landscape, sprouting innovation and growth…

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Start Now: 6 Reasons Why This Economy Is Good For Startups

Doom and gloom. Layoffs, bankruptcy, insolvency, bailouts. Blah blah blah Wall Street, blah blah blah Main Street. It’s a terrible time to start a company, right? Wrong! Here are six reasons why you should start your new company right now…

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