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  • Manage Your Business While Still Enjoying Your Vacation

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: Jun 9, 2009
    Hopefully the economy hasn't ruined your plans for a summer vacation this year. However, during your week away you will most likely find yourself unable to More

  • Small business 211: Is Payroll Software For Me?

  • Source: www.sbinformer.com Date: Jun 3, 2009
    The main advantage to small business owners who use payroll software is that it saves them time and money in a variety of ways - and that is especially true during these economic times. More

  • When a staffer switches genders

  • Source: money.cnn.com Date: Apr 27, 2009
    Having a transgendered employee can flummox a workplace, but you can protect your bottom line and your employees by promoting tolerance and respect. More

  • European Remedy to Layoffs: Give Employees More Time Off

  • Source: www.mybusinessmag.com Date: Apr 2, 2009
    header.gif Join NFIB Current Issue About MyBusinessmag.com MyBusiness Magazine NFIB Advertising Categories Accounting Economy Employees Finance Humor Insurance Legal Life-Work Management Marketing News Motivation Policy Politics Profiles Resources Sales Startup Technology Web Extras Search this More

  • Small Businesses Say: We Want Independent Contractors

  • Source: smallbiztrends.com Date: Apr 2, 2009
    If you are an independent contractor or freelancer, the economy may be looking up for you -- at least where small businesses are concerned. Every month More

  • Managing Lay Offs With Dignity

  • Source: www.smartbiz.com Date: Mar 20, 2009
    With the potential for layoffs facing more and more companies, the realities of laying off great workers is confronting many business owners and managers: owners and managers who have never before faced this hard act. To help ease the pain for the employees being laid off, the owners and managers More

  • SBA Shows Improving Agency Performance And Employee Morale

  • Source: www.smallbiztrends.com Date: Nov 5, 2008
    WASHINGTON (October 29, 2008) - According to a GAO report issued last week, SBA has substantially improved the agency's overall performance and improved More

  • Do Family Members Make Good Employees?

  • Source: smbceo.com Date: Jun 19, 2008
    So, you have a small business and you are looking to hire some new employees.  A family member asks you for a job, do you consider hiring him or her?  Surely, hiring family members has to have its pros and cons.  Tom Lindstrom, author of The Home Business Archive, touches on this topic in his blog More

  • Social Media - Do You Have Guidelines In Place For Your Employees?

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: Apr 30, 2009
    Mashable brought up a very interesting question as the topic of one of their articles yesterday, Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy? Numerous More

  • Get control of your employee records

  • Source: money.cnn.com Date: Mar 30, 2009
    Every business eventually outgrows Excel. If you're ready to get your HR files in order, here are some software options to consider. More

  • How a Layoff Inspires a New Business

  • Source: smallbiztrends.com Date: Feb 6, 2009
    I was thinking a lot about the economy this week, and was looking back at a bunch of older cartoons that came soon after being laid off from one of my day More

  • Better Business Bureau and MasterCard Launch Prepaid Payroll Card

  • Source: www.smallbiztrends.com Date: Oct 29, 2008
    (PURCHASE, N.Y., Oct. 28) -- MasterCard Worldwide and The BBB of Nashville today announced the introduction of the TrustCard Prepaid MasterCard Payroll Card. More

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  • Source: www.smartbiz.com Date: Oct 21, 2008
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  • Why Business Owners Should Avoid Cutting Employee Benefits

  • Source: www.mybusinessmag.com Date: Jul 24, 2008
    In the summer of 1999, I ate gourmet pastries at work every Friday afternoon. It was a perk of working at a dot-com during the hey day, and as a fresh college graduate, I thought it was a standard part of the working world. But then the ceiling fell and our eclairs and cupcakes and chocolate More

  • Will The Economy Affect The Way You Vacation This Year?

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: May 29, 2009
    According to the American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor, a semi-annual survey, small business owners are still planning on taking summer vacations in More

  • Increase Flexibility and Reduce Costs with Targeted IT Outsourcing

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: May 11, 2009
    Are you looking for ways to minimize increases in long-term staffing commitments, yet want to position yourself for growth once the economy More

  • Offering New Employees Incentive Pay Instead Of Large Salaries

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: Apr 14, 2009
    New businesses have enough challenges to face let alone trying to figure out how you're going to be able to hire help when there is little wiggle room More

  • Team Building - Hiring Your Dream Employees

  • Source: www.smbceo.com Date: Feb 10, 2009
    For businesses looking to put that elusive dream team together, Steve Clayton has put together a list of 5 Tips For Hiring a Star Team on his blog, Geek In More

  • How to fire right

  • Source: money.cnn.com Date: Feb 6, 2009
    (Fortune Small Business) -- Unlike many of his management consulting peers, Tom Peters deems across-the-board staff cuts "dumb" and multiple rounds of layoffs counterproductive. More

  • 12 Low-Cost Marketing Ideas for the Ho-Ho-Ho-lidays!

  • Source: www.smallbiztrends.com Date: Oct 30, 2008
    I'm not a big fan of Christmas and Year-end Holiday cards. They are not only expensive, but boring and predictable. Every year I look for creative marketing More

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