Business listing sites are like theyellow pages: lots of choices,and always changing. My friend Allison Aldrige-Saur asked for a list of online places to register a business. She had Yelp, Google Places and several others, but was not finding a list. Here’s why there is no list: it changes all the time. Business listing sites…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The things we share are our gifts to each other. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Dec 23-25, 2011. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. This community is the gift we give to each other. Christmas…
What is your backup plan,if your phone line is rippedout during the busyChristmas season? Here is another reason to consider Square for credit card processing over a traditional merchant account. Yesterday, the phone line was ripped off of the back of our store. (It looks like it was snagged by a truck and drug down…
Small town economies look strong for 2012. The trends for small town and rural businesses are always different from the general small business trends, and for once this is good news. The national economy is not looking all that good, but the rural economy looks strong. Rural small business trends are always different from general…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Dec 16-18, 2011. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. Basket photo by Katy Wrathall. Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good…
By Glenna Mae Hendricks, E.A. Starting Jan. 1, 2012, the standard mileage rate for a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) becomes: 55.5 cents per mile for business miles driven 23.5 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations Source: IRS announcement of…
Photos and videos of your customers or visitors can be compelling. But before you use a photo of person, you want to think about legal issues. Did anyone get a photo release form? I’m not going to wade into the legalities, but I will link to someone more qualified than me: Stanford University Libraries Copyright…
I have a bricks and mortar liquor store. We have used traditional credit card merchant processing for five years, and we just switched over to Square. I’ll tell you why we converted and how we did it. Our Old “Traditional” Merchant Processing Yes, I really do have a liquor store. Our traditional merchant was Retriever…
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