On IowaBIz.com, West Des Moines accountant Joe Kristan shares a story about what happens when you try to take personal deductions for corporate expenses.
The moral of Joe’s story:
If you incorporate your business, run it like a business. The corporation pays the corporation’s bills, or your deduction vanishes.
Great advice indeed!
Doug Mitchell interviews Steve Reese who is the owner of Fitness Together franchise in Clive, Iowa in his first podcast of the Iowa Small Business Zone. Listen and you will find that Steve is an enthusiastic proponent of franchising. I was also impressed with Steve’s impression of the potential benefits of blogging from someone who is new
For some reason I am not having any success at getting people to comment on a couple of issues: here and here.
But I am receiving a number of requests recently for information on specific subjects. It’s actually fun and gratifying to receive email from readers who say they have been following the blog and
It’s tough to hire good employees these days. I am not familar with the company but I loved this video from Success With People. They have an intriguing low-cost mentoring program for hiring better people and engaging them in your business.
The Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog also has a helpful post The Interviewing and
The Rush on Business show is going on the road this next week. On Monday, November 5, I’ll be speaking in an Entrepreneur Workshop at Iowa State University. The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Graduate Program at ISU received funding to teach the Entrepreneurship Workshop, which is a one-credit, hands-on workshop for students interested in
Charlie Longbrief picked up the phone on a Friday afternoon. He was accustomed to these late Friday afternoon calls. People with problems always seemed to call at this time because they need peace of mind over the weekend. It was his friend Joe Smith who worked as sales manager for Shake, Rattle & Roll, Inc. a local baby toy manufacturer.
"Charlie I
I read with interest fellow IowaBiz author Victor Aspengren’s article on Forget the Ratings in conducting annual performance reviews. Victor points out that most companies use subjective rating systems in their performance reviews which leave everyone in the company, supervisors and employees alike, dreading the annual review process.
What happens next is what I call
Over on the Iowa Law Blog I discussed the fact that the number of lawsuits is down this past year for U.S. businesses. The statistics are based upon a study from the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. But you need to read a little deeper to find a more intriguing statistic:
The
First with Drew McLellan on marketing, and now with Shirley Poertner on leadership, the IowaBiz.com free breakfast series is off to a fast start. Shirley spoke yesterday about accountability in the workplace. A concept that is frequently missing in many organizations.
Shirley says we have fallen into a "blame" society.
Attorney Liz Overton has an excellent post on the need to carefully prepare job descriptions for small businesses over on Sullivan & Ward’s Iowa Law Blog.
I encourage you to check it out.
