Archive for January 2005
The Journal News: For those who feel their handshaking ability may be lacking, Holland offers these tips: Business is gender neutral. Don’t wait for a woman to extend her hand or vice versa. A good handshake results in full contact. Don’t just grab the tips of someone’s fingers. It sends a condescending message to women [...]
Crime Scene Cleanup Business Booming
Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog: “Here’s a concept that can’t miss. There are companies whose principal business is to clean residences or lodging facilities that have been the site of a grisly death — often by suicide or murder. Tragic Solutions and Aftermath, two companies that have pledged themselves to the cleanup of crime/death [...]
Startup Journal: Tax-deductible business expenses are fairly straightforward. Whatever is ordinary –meaning that similar businesses would incur this expense — and necessary for operating your business is likely to fall into the deductible category. Office equipment, business-telephone line, advertising, stationery and business cards are some of the obvious expenditures. As a sole proprietor (meaning you [...]
Lucky or Smart? : Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life
Amazon: “For anyone looking to spend an hour or so conversing one-on-one with a successful Internet entrepreneur, Peabody has put his end of that conversation in writing. As founder of a startup, Tripod, Inc. — and a reaper of pre-Internet Bubble riches — Peabody graciously provides his thoughts on how and why he’s been so [...]
Ways to fix your life: Quit your job
Yahoo! News: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. “If you’ve been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud,” says Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. “Companies are not loyal to employees anymore. Nobody [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Management Craft.
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