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What to do when your employees take long lunch breaks

You get back from a meeting at 1:30 p.m. and your office is ghost town. Where did everyone go? You know your staff usually breaks for lunch around noon but they can’t be gone this long – or can they? About 15 minutes later, the whole bunch walks in, laughing and having a great ol’ time. They…

What to do when your employee is viewing porn at work?
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What to do when your employee is viewing porn at work?

Your IT person, Carla, wanders into your office with a sheepish look on her face. She’s just been working on your Production Manager’s computer that’s been running slower and slower the last several weeks. “So what’s the story?” You ask. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” comes the reply. “I fixed Dwayne’s machine.”…

10 surefire ways to destroy your business
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10 surefire ways to destroy your business

Building and growing a business is hard work! You have to build a strong team, nurture client relationships, be strategic, turn a profit … the list goes on. You know what’s easier? Tearing your whole business apart. So, if you’d rather go that route, here are 10 ways you can destroy your business in no…

Go Away!
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Go Away!

It’s amazing to me how many business owners I have to order to take a vacation. And when I do, I’m usually met with this sort of reply: “But I’ve got too much work! It will just come back to bite me when I get back anyway … it’s not worth it!”  Believe me, I…

Website: Show Me The Money
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Website: Show Me The Money

Ten years ago, our goal was to have an “Internet presence.” Why? Just because. So we put up our drab-looking, copy-heavy, hard-to-find websites with a goal of being nothing more than “present.” And we were good with that. But today, just being”present” doesn’t cut it. The Internet has evolved and so has what we expect – or should expect…