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IRS Presents National Phone Forum

By Jeanne Cole

IRS Stakeholder Liaison presents: National Phone Forum Everyone’s at Risk – Combating the Increasing Threat of Online Fraud and Identity Theft Date: August 19, 2009Cost: FREELocation: The convenience of your home or officeThis IRS phone forum is for: • Tax professionals• Attorneys• Payroll professionals• Industry partners• Small business organizations• Small business owners• State and local […]

August 3, 2009 Filed Under: entrepreneurship Tagged With: events

QuickBooks Contest ENDS

By Jeanne Cole

Yesterday, June 3, was the last day that entries were accepted for the 15 copies of QuickBooks Premier to be given away from our blog, thanks to Intuit. Today those 15 winners were notified and Intuit will be contacting those winners who get the downloads. Five CD copies went in the mail today to those […]

June 4, 2009 Filed Under: announcement

Who Says There’s Not a Market?

By Jeanne Cole

Print material is a thing of the past, a dying dinosaur! Have you heard that yet? It was presented as a statement of fact at a meeting I recently attended. Big city newspapers are shutting down. Magazines are opting for online editions instead of print you can touch, so to speak. We can read books […]

May 7, 2009 Filed Under: POV Tagged With: video

Competition Sports Getting Started

By Jeanne Cole

Kenny and Dayna Wederski live in Woodward Oklahoma and opened Competition Sports, LLC, their new sporting goods store in January. They spent about four months in the planning stages before the doors opened. Some of the important steps they took to get to that successful opening included Writing the plan for the business Developing the […]

May 5, 2009 Filed Under: customer service, entrepreneurship, planning Tagged With: video

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