Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

Are Your Employees Stealing?
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

Are Your Employees Stealing?

Small businesses face big risks from employee fraud. They often lack the resources or know-how to implement extensive fraud-prevention safeguards.…

Crowdfunding for Your Business
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

Crowdfunding for Your Business

Entrepreneurs, artists and other innovators raised more than $5 billion in 2013 through "crowdfunding" Web sites such as Kickstarter and…

Want to Start Your Own Business? What to Say to Naysayers
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

Want to Start Your Own Business? What to Say to Naysayers

Tell people that you plan to start a business, and there's a good chance that they will tell you why…

You Did What?! The Biggest Business Mistakes and What We All Can Learn
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

You Did What?! The Biggest Business Mistakes and What We All Can Learn

Stories of business failure and mistakes often are swept under the rug. Colleagues and bosses generally don’t like to tell…

5 Surprising Ways LinkedIn Can Grow Your Business
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

5 Surprising Ways LinkedIn Can Grow Your Business

Many business owners and professionals have signed up for LinkedIn.com, but very few take full advantage of the networking site’s…

The Best Way to Reimburse Employees
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

The Best Way to Reimburse Employees

... and save taxes, too A business that doesn’t want to give its employees company credit cards, but expects employees…

Business Owners: Avoid the Independent Contractor Trap
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Business Owners: Avoid the Independent Contractor Trap

Business owners often prefer to use independent contractors for some tasks rather than employees. Advantages to using independent contractors... More…

Six Tax Breaks for Companies That
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Six Tax Breaks for Companies That

Companies gain multiple benefits for being green. In addition to helping the environment, they save money on fuel and energy…

The Facebook Payoff
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

The Facebook Payoff

How to use social media to make your small business much more successful Facebook has more than 500 million active…

How Business Owners Can Boost Health-Care Deductions
Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses

How Business Owners Can Boost Health-Care Deductions

Estimates peg health insurance premium increases for 2008 at about 8.7%, on average. This is more than double the 4.1%…

Tax Hot Buttons for Closely Held Businesses Today
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Tax Hot Buttons for Closely Held Businesses Today

Here are today’s four hottest tax issues for closely held businesses, together with ways to take advantage of new opportunities,…

Secrets of Quicker Tax Refunds for Business Owners
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Secrets of Quicker Tax Refunds for Business Owners

If your business overpaid its taxes during 2007 -- or incurred a loss entitling it to a carryback refund of…