Feb 10

Topeka ? A Kansas House committee is considering a proposal that would eliminate some seldom-used income tax credits.

The panel heard Tuesday from Revenue Secretary Joan Wagnon about several programs designed to encourage investment in Kansas.

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Feb 09

The Link between Mid-Life Crisis and Entrepreneurship

A struggling economy could be improved through individual entrepreneurship. Interestingly, who is today’s leading group of new-business starters? The answer may surprise you. Rather than 22-year olds fresh out of Harvard or Stanford, today’s most prominent group is baby boomer entrepreneurs!

The Entrepreneurship Trends

Baby boomers are generally considered to be the generation of babies born between 1945 and 1964.

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Feb 08

Are you a good boss or a bad boss? Or, more to the point, do you care what your employees think about you?

Bosses are generally dictatorial because they know it’s the best way to get things done quickly. By contrast, an owner-manger who is too friendly with staff will often fail to command respect and that will be reflected in the running of the company.

Not so long ago, a report was commissioned by the Department for Business to look at the issue of employee/employer engagement. Quite reasonably, the report states that the more leaders and management engage with the rank and file, the more productive and efficient a company will be.

This doesn’t just mean being a nice person.

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Feb 08

It looks like the Republicans and Democrats can reach across the aisle.

Some of the time.

On Saturday, a White House Official told the Associated Press that it plans to repeal the 1989 cell phone tax. In fact, the promise of this repeal is included in President Barack Obama’s new budget and spending plan for 2011.

If you’re like the rest of America, you’re probably scratching your head right now. Cell phone tax?

Perhaps a discussion on “taxable fringe benefits” is mandated before we go any further. A taxable fringe benefit is considered pay, even if it’s not monetary. The use of a company-owned Blackberry, for example, is a taxable fringe benefit.

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Feb 08

When it comes to getting a logo designed, you have a lot of choices. Should you hire someone you know personally? Someone another company recommended? Or should you try a site where you can offer a logo “contest” and pay the winner for a logo?

I’ve used several different options to get logos throughout the years:

  1. I’ve designed a logo myself.
  2. I’ve hired a designer I knew personally.
  3. I’ve hired a logo design company.
  4. And, most recently, I’ve outsourced logo creation through both 99designs and Design Outpost.

In this post, I will run through each of the above four options in detail, and suggest the best course of action for getting you a great logo design at a low price–based on my own experience.

Option #1: Design It Yourself

Doing logo design yourself is cheapest, but good logo design is difficult, and your result will usually be sub-par.

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