Blog Posts

What’s YOUR Why?

What’s Your Motivation? Share your story in the Reply section on this page. You deserve to be paid, protected, and…

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St. Patrick’s Day… A Legal Issue?

St. Patrick’s Day is no stranger to legal controversy. Gay Irish groups in New York and Boston have had protracted…

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Does buying a business name mean a transfer of ownership for the business?

Q.:  What steps do I need to take to purchase a business name from my uncle? The business name belongs…

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Making Alliances through Social Networking Sites

Here’s one of my pet peeves about sites like Facebook: people who hardly know me who want to join my…

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Declaring Your Independence

With the July Fourth holiday upon us, what are you doing to declare your independence? Have you found ways to…

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What The Zombies Can Tell Us about Strategic Alliances

Zombies?  No, not in the George-Romero-Night-of-the-Living-Dead kind of zombies.  Zombies as in the British-rock-band-from-the-1960s kind of zombies. As Lewis Green…

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Tips for Negotiating a Partnership (or Alliance) Agreement

Many thanks to Anthony Cerminaro’s BizBangBuzz blog (say that ten times fast!) for finding a great tidbit on highlights to negotiate…

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Feeling Suspicious? Time for a Checkup

I was recently contacted by a business owner who felt that he was being cheated by his business partner.  He…

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Basic Training: Z is for Zapping Yourself by Walking Away

OK, so there aren’t many usable “Z” words in this context.  🙂  Today’s Basic Training post revisits that old, old…

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How Do You Handle Customer Service?

They say that the key to happy clients is to under promise and overdeliver.  But I just returned from an…

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