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If you thought that social media and digital marketing were a fad when you first heard about it, I certainly hope that you now realize that social media is not going away and everything is going digital.

Chances are, unless you’re as obsessed as I am with John Hughes films, you don’t think “weird science” when you envision coming up with a logo for your small business. Well, it might not be weird, but there’s definitely science involved in great logo design.

Here’s three quick tips to help streamline your email process

Most every business has competition. It’s up to you to keep up with what your competition is doing and today’s technology makes it easy to do that without their knowing it! Here are some tips and tools to help you keep tabs on your competitors.

National Clean Off Your Desk Day is the designated day you walk into your office and say ‘this is the day I’m going to get my office clean.’ You roll up your sleeves, then a few emails arrive, you take a phone call, you search around for that document-did you print it out or is it somewhere on your computer? And before you know it, it’s time to call it a day.

The Internet has granted everybody a voice, and as such, the exposure social media grants can be a double-edged sword. While you get to share in all of your successes, anybody who feels wronged by your business will have a platform to voice their concerns as well. In some cases, this can be a healthy process for feedback. Sometimes people are just out to start a fuss. So how do you tell the difference, and what do you do if you find someone trying to rouse rabble on your social media pages?

An ESOP is also not an Employee Stock Option Plan. It is a defined contribution retirement plan established under section 401(a) rather than 401(k) and has two major differences. It must invest primarily in stock of the sponsoring company, and can borrow money to do so. The name is very misleading since the employees never own any of the company stock.

WPV affects 100% of all businesses in this country.” I said “Just because it doesn’t involve a firearm doesn’t mean that something isn’t WPV.”

Without the big budget of a public company, marketing can seem to be limited as far as how much you can do with a small budget if you are a small business owner. Sure, it can be challenging, but with today’s technology and huge variety of channels available for free, marketing can be conquered, effective and successful.

An ESOP is not a do-it-yourself endeavor. The creation is complicated. The ESOP must conform to the laws and regulations of both ERISA and the IRS, and is overseen and regulated by the Department of Labor. Dealing with one government agency is bad enough. Dealing with three of them is horrific.

Business owners spend their life growing the family business, but their wealth is locked up in their business and the owner isn’t able to enjoy the fruits of his labor. An ESOP will allow him to sell part or all of the company, providing liquidity and diversification of his wealth while still remaining in control of the company.

Some people will, and laugh, at me for saying what I’m about to write about in this post. But it is true that I parrot it every time there is a workplace violence (WPV) incident. And nobody really wants to listen. That is until I start naming the things that make this the most dangerous attitude.