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Family Business Succession Financial planning evolves investments, taxes, insurance, retirement and estate planning. It often boils down to how to build and protect your assets so you and your heirs can enjoy the fruits of your labor. Business owners are faced with typical financial planning topics as any individual might encounter, however the business owner [...]

Employee Stock Ownership Plan First let’s define a ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) as a qualified defined contribution plan that invest in the stock of the company offering the retirement plan. These types of plans help employees prepare for retirement and are used by companies to plan for ownership succession. The following are advantages of [...]

Business or Home Asset Tracking Template   If you need a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for tracking your small business assets or even home inventory assets try this free Excel template from Vertex42. The Asset Inventory worksheet is set up to help you include the following information:        Item description (Name, Description, ID Tag, Category)        [...]

Valuing a Small Business   There are numerous reasons for valuing a small business such as selling or buying a business, presentation for investors, financing, death or a valuation might be needed for estate and gift tax returns, buy-sell agreements, litigation, tax challenges or a divorce. Valuing a company is truly the toughest part of [...]

Small Business Start Up Costs – Excel Template Recently Vertex 42 released another fee Microsoft Excel Template that you can download to assist you if you are establishing a small business. The spreadsheet is to help you estimate your business start up costs. Whether you plan on starting a small business or a larger company, [...]

AffiloJetpack – Internet Marketing (easest way to get started) Click on the above banner for further information including a free video and eBook on starting your own internet business. AffiloJetpack Internet Marketing  What is AffiloJetpack – a collection of ready to launch websites of high quality and full of great content covering five to ten [...]

Review of Microsoft office 2010 Microsoft Office 2010 Professional (Disc Version) Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Product Key Card Click the above links to purchase or for users reviews. Microsoft now offers each edition as a full version which includes two licenses. The upgrade version is no longer available, however Microsoft does offer Office Product Key Card [...]

Web Design XSitePro Reviewed In previous post I discussed two Microsoft Products that being FrontPage and Expression Web.  In this post we will review XSitePro  Click the training video link to see first hand some of the programs best features and the look and feel of XSitePro. I’ve included several training video links which are usually [...]

Web Design Software Reviewed In this post we going to review Two web design software programs that I am experienced with that being Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web. Let’s begin with Microsoft FrontPage – First thing I should mention is the fact that FrontPage has been discontinued and no longer supported by Microsoft. However [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Small Business Websites Many small business websites are designed as a company brochure and not so much about information on any given topic or subject. This post will begin a series of posts devoted to small businesses, starting with website presence and specially search engine optimization (SEO). I know from personal [...]