Business Mentors

Some recent tweets that came across the @cnybj Twitter feed, offering various small business, marketing, HR, career, and personal tips. SBA @SBAgovSBA’s Learning Center has a variety of free online training courses on topics such as financing your business, accounting and pricing. Launch the courses —http://ow.ly/9eFF30oh60a  NFIB @NFIBAs the social network with the greatest focus […]

Entrepreneurship starts with an idea. One of the challenges once the business gets off the ground, though, is coming up with more ideas that push the company forward. An idea often stems from inspiration and lacking that, some business owners say, can result in stagnation or a failed enterprise.   Without innovation and forward thinking, no

—Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.  — George S. Patton The complexity and regulatory requirements associated with tax-exempt, not-for-profit organizations has increased substantially during my 40-year career. In particular, the past 10 years have seen exponential increases in complexity for the following independent-auditor requirements: • GAAS = Generally Accepted Auditing Standards • GAAP

Some recent tweets that came across the @cnybj Twitter feed, offering various small business, marketing, HR, career, and personal tips. SBA @SBAgov5 Myths About Payroll Taxes — http://ow.ly/gvSW30o3xJ7 NFIB @NFIBThis guide to Section 179 of the tax code is a great way to refresh your knowledge before filing taxes for your #smallbiz: https://www.nfib.com/content/resources/money/a-guide-to-section-179-for-small-business-owners/ Hootsuite @hootsuite7

Retirement planning can be fraught with worry in the best of times, but when the market turns volatile and uncertainty reigns, people in or near retirement may give way to anxiety or unease to an even greater degree than normal. And as a result, those dreams of carefree golden years may transform into sleepless nights.

Bad habits can be hard to break, and for business leaders who have them, they can be deal-breakers.  In a survey by Leadership IQ, an online training firm, the primary reasons CEOs were fired — mismanaging change, ignoring customers, tolerating low performers, and not enough action — were often related to unproductive habits.   Although leaders

There is everything right about looking out for yourself and your career. Right now, with more jobs than people to fill them, it’s easier than ever. One month in mid-2018, job postings exceeded the number of unemployed by an eye-popping 659,000. With this happening, it’s no surprise that 3.6 million workers voluntarily quit their jobs in

Starting up a new business is exciting while also being a frightening and difficult task. The Pew Research Center reports that more than 50 percent of startups fail in the first four years and fewer than 60 percent earn any profit after 10 years. More than 500,000 individuals in America close their businesses for good every year.

Dear Rusty: I will be 65 [in a month]. [My] husband will be 61 in August. If I started collecting Social Security now would I only be able to collect on myself? My husband plans on collecting at 62. Will I be able to collect some of his when he starts collecting at age 62? Also,