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  For years I wondered why March 15 was chosen as the deadline to file business taxes, provided it falls on a weekday.  Here’s a fun fact:  in the days of ancient Rome, March 15, known [...]

  More money, more problems. To be more precise…more growth, more problems. Chronic inconsistencies in customer support and product or service delivery are never a good thing.  Left uncheck, [...]

  “I feel so bad Alicia. Now that my contract ended, I have all of this free time on my hands and I don’t know what to do with it.” That’s what a dear friend recently shared with me as we [...]

  One of the scariest things in business is to realize you have more money going out than coming in.  One major way money can creep out of your business is through credit card chargebacks. [...]

  Family and business do not always mix. Sad and unfortunate, but true. Such is the case with brothers John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith “W.K.” Kellogg – the men behind [...]

  It’s rare that high quality opportunities to grow your business come along for FREE! That’s exactly what will happen starting tomorrow, September 26, 2017. I, Alicia Butler [...]

  Time flies – the final quarter of the year is almost here! It’s been several months since you last heard from me. I went on sabbatical and it was the best gift I gave myself in a long [...]

  What do g-forces, race cars and an overall need for speed have to do with business? “EVERYTHING!” according to Chris Grigalunas, owner of Azul Motorsports. Like race cars, small businesses [...]

  One of the biggest challenges we entrepreneurs face is knowledge transfer. Our expertise is buried not only in our heads, but also in a combination of old files, journals, unbounded notes, [...]

  I am the first to admit – I used to dread the first quarter of the year. You know, tax season. “Why,” I used to ask myself, “are we ushered into the New Year with [...]