Need to terminate? Take these five steps first. They say that “breaking up is hard to do,” and that certainly applies to giving an employee the heave-ho. Few business owners relish the conflict, the guilt and the fear of reprisal that often accompany the act of firing an employee. But sometimes you reach the point [...]
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A commercial lease is nothing more than a kind of contract. Except this one is for renting space that you’ll use for your business–instead of use for your residence. It’s daunting enough that the print on many leases is often in microscopic font (why do you think so many attorneys wear glasses?). But what do [...]
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Like the riff on Freud’s “what do women want?” we ask, “What do commercial landlords want?“ The answers should not surprise you. Just as you want to be sure you’re doing business with financially solvent customers who won’t “take the service and run,” landlords want a similar comfort level. They’re looking for reassurance that, at [...]
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Not knowing what the fine print on your contract says could take a costly bite out of your business. Yes, I know you’re a busy business owner. Yes, contracts can be tedious. And, yes, I know that sometimes the font used on these documents requires an electron microscope to read it properly. But as a [...]
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The current climate may seem like a great time to secure office space. Landlords want to make a deal, bargains seem to abound; space that was out of your league 2-3 years ago now seems within reach. Is now the time to leave your home office? Should you make the leap to commercial office space? [...]
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Last month, the Federal District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., decided a case involving a dispute between a purchaser and a company providing information reports online. As reported by Eric Goldman in his Technology & Marketing Law Blog, the case of Scherillo v. Dun & Bradstreet confirmed that “acknowledgment check boxes” can provide a powerful defense [...]
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If you’ve been reading between the lines at all regarding the state of our economy (and, in particular, our government treasuries), you’ll be very much aware that state and local governments need money. Need our money. Need millions and billions and trillions of dollars of it, in particular. In order to avoid bankrupting themselves, governments [...]
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Unless you’re working with microscopic font sizes, if you’re involved in a transaction of any consequence (and by that I mean consequence to you, not consequence to the national debt), I weigh in on the side of “fiction.” Every time I’m handed a “short-form” agreement–like the eight-page partnership agreement a business owner (a lawyer!) asked [...]
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“Completely satisfied customers” seems to be a perfectionist standard of mythic proportions. But Joe Calloway on FuelNet reveals that there are secrets to making this happen. How important it is for our businesses, too, when customer loyalty appears to have the life span of a mayfly (for the records, that’s about 30 minutes). Here are [...]
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Q: I am in the process of starting a contracting company. I know everything needed but the license. Would this fall under general contractor license or is it something that could be purchased without classes/tests? A: Each state has its own system and classifications for different kinds of contractors’ licenses. Not only do the states [...]
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Taking on a business partner is not a decision to be made lightly. It’s much like getting married. With the tools provided to you in The Entrepreneur’s Prenup you will always have the partnership guidance you need, regardless of where you are in your partnership process.
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