Specialty Archives

Lately I’ve seen a nonprofit organization raising money in an unusual way: by selling stuff on eBay.  It’s not like a Goodwill or a thrift store — rather, donors simply give the organization valuables or other items to auction off on eBay, and the organization gets the proceeds from the auctions.
It’s a great idea.  Money is [...]

One of the biggest benefits offered by big companies today is the retirement savings plan.  Whether your employer offers a 401(k) or another type of retirement savings plan, and whether or not they match your contributions, this benefit is a huge help to anyone who is saving for retirement.
Although there are many advantages to being [...]

There is a lot of demand for search engine optimisation in Birmingham.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of do-it-yourselfers who don’t seem to understand that “SEO” stands for “search engine optimisation,” NOT “search engines only.”
What do I mean by this?  Well, there are a lot of people who focus so much on getting the search engines [...]

I hate to say it, but ecommerce is quickly becoming the main mode of shopping for many people.  With gas prices they way they were in the last year or two of the Bush administration, the cost of shipping items to your home was starting to seem not so bad after all, when compared with [...]

Recently I was discussing with a couple of my colleagues whether putting ads on a blog can actually make you any money.  While they haven’t had much luck with it themselves, I make $100 every three or four months with my blogs.  It’s not much, but figure I would be blogging with or without it, so [...]

Take it from someone who has actually lost a lot of important information before in hard drive failure: It is really important to back up your data frequently.
That bears repeating.  Your business’s success requires that you back up frequently.
There is nothing more upsetting than losing all of your business emails, or client information, or business financial [...]

At the last preschool I worked in, our director had some very interesting past experience: She used to run a small preschool program out of her home.
It was just a part-day preschool program, meaning that she didn’t have to worry about providing breakfast or lunch, or putting kids down for a nap.  She literally just had [...]

Too often, I think business owners and hiring managers view employees as expendable, not really all that important or necessary to their business.  But the truth is, your employees represent your business.  In many cases, they are the only representatives  of your business that your clients will come into contact with, so it definitely behooves you [...]

The university diploma frame I had received back in 1991 was made to withstand the tests of time with how it looked.  As I am about to graduate with my advanced degree, I wanted to make sure that my next diploma frame would also stand the test of time with the quality and look of [...]

If you own a small business, don’t forget that your health insurance is tax deductible — both what you pay for your own, and what you pay for your employees’.  The former is simply a tax deduction on your personal tax return, while the latter is considered a cost of doing business.
Let’s talk about your [...]