I love this post from New York business lawyer Imke Ratschko regarding the best practices in executing a contract.
Her tips (and my comments):
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!
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
I ran across this informative article on whether you should hire a franchise broker to purchase a franchise via the Indiana Civil & Business Lawyer Blog.
The article discusses how the Internet has changed the way people find a franchise. With all the information available on the Internet it has produced "information overload" for prospective franchisees.
New Iowa law blogger, Larry McLellan, posts on challenges for cause in jury selection on Sullivan & Ward’s Iowa Law Blog.
Larry references a great article on Building the Foundation for Cause Challenges by jury consultant Harry Plotkin. If you are a trial lawyer it is definitely worth the read.
As regular readers of this blog know, I am engaged in a never ending search for blogs that present franchise opportunities in a fair and objective manner. All too often franchise related sites are merely promotional pieces.
FranchisePick is a site worth checking out. Yes, there are some promotional pieces on the site. But franchise marketing veteran, Sean
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.
I’ve got baseball on the brain over on Sullivan & Ward’s new Iowa Law Blog thanks to HR Capitalist. Go Tribe!
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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.
