Diana Heeb Bivona on April 12th, 2007

Do you shutter at the idea of advertising for an open position in your company simply because you know you will be inundated with hundreds if not thousands of resumes?  Most smaller businesses do not have a large (if any) human resource department that can take the time to sift through all the potential candidates.  [...]

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Diana Heeb Bivona on April 11th, 2007

As a small business owner, how dependent is your business on the internet?  If faced with a loss of internet service, what type of impact would it have on your overall business?  According to a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index 35% of small businesses believe it would have a major impact on their business, [...]

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Diana Heeb Bivona on April 10th, 2007

Workers’ compensation costs are skyrocketing. In some industries considered high-risk, businesses are seeing their costs become almost unmanageable. However, here are three easy cost saving strategies you could try to reduce your workes’ compensation premiums. Prevent workplace injuries and illnesses. You’re thinking, “well of course our goal is to prevent workplace injuries and illness”, but [...]

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Diana Heeb Bivona on April 9th, 2007

Ever found yourself frustrated by a customer who just doesn’t seem to pay on time? After all, you thought your terms of payment due in 30 days was pretty fair. Yet, as you check the mail, again, you wonder how can it be so difficult? You think, maybe you are overacting and should just give [...]

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Diana Heeb Bivona on April 6th, 2007

We all seem to collect mounds of paper no matter how paperless we try to go. Trying to decide which documents we should keep and for how long can also prove challenging, particularly when you are looking to unload some of that paper. So what should you keep and for how long? According to the [...]

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Diana Heeb Bivona on April 5th, 2007

It’s becoming a more and more frequent practice for insurance companies to include a benefit-cutting clause in business insurance policies.  What is this?  In the past, business insurance policies generally instructed the insurance carrier to cover the entire cost of legal fees and related expenses, even when only part of the claim was covered by [...]

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