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		<title>Easy Ways to Save Money For Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 01:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adria Saracino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding ways to save money is crucial in any economic situation.  In the months since the economy recovery began, small businesses have received a lot of attention—mostly due to the fact that small business owners have contributed a 2.9 percent increase to overall employment growth. That&#8217;s obviously great news, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that small businesses are done pinching pennies to stay afloat. There are always obvious ways to cut costs, but here are a few ways you probably haven&#8217;t thought of to save money in reference to your business. Use Open Source Software Rather than using expensive software packages that require constant upgrading for the whole office, consider making use of open source software like OpenOffice, GimpShop and GNUcash. These will allow you to save money by continuing to conduct necessary business operations like creating documents and tracking revenue, without the continual cost. More small businesses are also using the cloud for off-site data hosting. By ridding yourself of servers and firewalls, you can save your business thousands of dollars that would traditionally go toward IT support. The cloud also saves money (and time) by allowing for cheaper and easier backups, lower electric bills and eliminating hardware and software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filing Your Businesses&#8217; Taxes Solo This Year? Read This First!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adria Saracino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It’s the New Year, and you know what that means: time to start thinking about filing those taxes. I can just hear you cheering now. As a small business, getting organized in preparation for your tax filing is especially important, as you don’t want to miss out on deductions and tax breaks. That’s why we’ve put together this top six guide to help you through.  1. Make sure you have an Employer Identification Number First and foremost, if you’ve just begun hiring employees this year and haven’t yet filed for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) (also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number), do so immediately online. Even if you haven’t hired employees, you’ll still need an EIN if you operate your business as a corporation or partnership, file excise, alcohol or firearms tax returns, withhold taxes on income to a non-resident alien, or are involved in a number of organization listed on the EIN site linked to above. You may want to consider getting one should you plan on taking on employees this year, or even as a sole proprietor, as sometimes the IRS will take a harder look at sole proprietors without them (and you don’t want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Unexpected Roadblocks to Avoid During Business Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adria Saracino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From long security lines at the airport to missing room reservations, there are a lot of travel roadblocks just waiting to turn that supposedly routine business trip to Hawaii into a tropical nightmare. As someone who boarded over 10 business flights in the last few months alone, I should know. I’ve spent what felt like hours circling over major metropolitan airports, and have counted the seconds while sprinting in the general direction of a conference building in a foreign land. Finally, I’ve decided enough is enough. I’m putting together a list of the top five roadblocks I’ve encountered on the road, in hopes that you (and I) won’t fall prey to them for very much longer. 1. Packing Like a Newbie &#8220;If there’s one thing that our customers worry about it’s what to pack,&#8221; says Daniel Skilken of the company Trip Insurance. &#8220;We often hear questions like, &#8216;Will I pack too much? Too little? What will get me into trouble with the TSA?&#8217;&#8221; As a seasoned traveler, you’d think none of these things would be an issue for you, but that’s embarrassingly not the case. This past September I traveled to a conference where I would be presented an award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Step-by-Step Guide to Google AdWords</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adria Saracino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to get in the paid search game, but not sure where to start? Fear no more. Here is your guide to PPC success. First, why should you care about paid search? Paid search allows you to: • Gain top positioning in search results for relevant keywords – less competition than organic • Use hard metrics for determining ROI – you can see the results of exactly what you spend • Adjust what you spend (no minimum requirements!) on a daily basis • Pause campaigns when it is no longer convenient • Geo-target specific areas by searchers&#8217; zip codes When paired with organic search marketing, it can supplement areas where your business struggles to compete and create an integrating marketing campaign. For example, if you are a new business and are just getting into the fashion space, ranking for terms like &#8220;swimsuits&#8221; and &#8220;buy a bikini&#8221; is going to be extremely competitive. Rather than let these other established businesses dominate the SERPs, you can use paid search to get visibility. While it won&#8217;t be the middle section of search results, you will appear at the top and right sidebar. So how do you go about getting this visibility? Below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Productivity – Getting a Handle on Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adria Saracino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever feel like you’re spending too much of your work day in meetings? Meetings can kill productivity – not least because the very act of having a meeting pulls you away from other important tasks; but even the meetings themselves can be unproductive – either because they run on too long, are unfocused, or fail to result in actions. Fortunately help is at hand – Simply Business have pulled together this Productivity infographic detailing solutions to common productivity problems with meetings: Click image to open interactive version.  Keen to turn things around? Check out our tips to keep your meetings short, on-track and productive below: Top tips for running effective meetings 1. Is the meeting really necessary? Get into the habit of setting an agenda ahead of time which outlines what needs to be discussed and accomplished within the meeting. Then review your agenda. Do you actually need a meeting to accomplish these deliverables? If not, skip the meeting. 2. If you do definitely need to have a meeting ensure someone is taking minutes, and capturing actions which will then be circulated. 3. Long meetings have a habit of over-running. Split longer meetings into 5-10 minute segments to discuss specific [...]]]></description>
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