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Me and My Mom

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This guest post from Lewis Beck

Mom and I spent a lot of time on all the logistical stuff for the cupcake shop like card services and the tax set up and the employee breakroom but when it came time for opening weekend we hadn’t put as much thought into the décor of the restaurant as we should have. People didn’t seem to really gravitate to the décor we had so after that first week I had my sister come in and really make the place over. She’s got an eye for that kind of stuff and boy did she do it right – by the end of the weekend there were giant stripes on the walls and a lifesize cupcake cutout for kids to stick their faces in and get their pictures taken! I know it sounds silly but I think the small changes to the décor really made my customers “feel it” and that’s what I credit to business being as good as it is. There’s nothing like the smell of success (and cupcakes!) in my store!

Payroll tax cut

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I have been hearing a lot of news about the conflict in Congress about whether or not to extend the middle class payroll tax cut another two months. One side says that the middle class doesn’t need that tax cut, but that the wealthy 1% DO need a tax cut. To that I say WHAT? Even if the wealthy have to pay 75% tax they would still have plenty of money to survive and play around and enjoy the good life. It boggles my mind how stupid and selfish some people really are! The middle-class tax cut pays my light bill. We are talking survival here folks!

Spreading the word

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Thanks for the post Linda Thompson

One of the things that I enjoy doing is going to trade shows and meetings where participants hand out practical freebie promotional products. I love the can cozies and the tote bags, the sewing kits and the lottery ticket scratchers and bottle openers.

I belong to a business networking group and we have been meeting for the past four years every Wednesday morning at a local restaurant. We take turns presenting a ten minute sales pitch about ourselves and our businesses. Sometimes the presenter passes out promotional products that their company buys. I really like it when they pass out something useful, like a pen or a notepad. Not so much the neon sunglasses that the eye doctor passed out last month!

One of the things that I’ve been considering doing is asking some of the smaller entrepreneurs in the group is if they want to get together to design a bag that was made in the USA that advertises all of us. That way we could split the cost but still have some freebies we could pass out to our prospective/existing clients. And I really like the idea of supporting companies that manufacture items made in the USA!

I can remember one year that my hubby and I bought five hundred personalized pens with his business name on them. We handed them out to our customers, mailed them out inside Christmas cards, gave a lot to our kids to take to college with them, passed them out at the networking meetings. Everyone loved getting them!

Ethics courses

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One of the most important courses any person can take is a course in ethics. Seems to me that lately there have been a lot of ethical violations in politics and business. That is, in my opinion, the biggest reason we (as a country) are in such a big mess. So I think that it is a good idea that every employer require every employee to take refresher ethics classes every year.

Especially people involved in tax preparation. I was surprised when Janice told me that she has to take a ea ethics course before the end of the year to be able to keep her job, but to be perfectly honest I am glad to hear it. Tax preparers especially are vulnerable to ethical challenges in the course of their jobs. It is good to know that ea cpe courses are available for free on the Internet. I think it is really important that this kind of education reaches everyone involved in the profession.

Advertising Agency Employment

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Had a pretty interesting lunch with a gal, last night, that I met quite some time ago, and until just recently I finally had the opportunity to get to know her during a nice dinner and drinks at my favorite French Restaurant, which is conveniently located only a few blocks down from my place. The owners of this small and quaint little restaurant have come to know me and always go the extra mile with personal service with a smile.

She works for an Advertising Agency and I met her through a friend who also works at the same Advertising Agency, different departments, but both offices are on the same floor, so they see a good amount of each other during their busy days.

Dinner turned out to be a four hour long meal, which included several rounds of a nice bottle of French wine and we got to know each other a lot better during that amount of time and a nice time was had by the both of us. She is one of the rare ones, for this day and age, that has no children and no ex-husbands, but spends long hours at work (she appears to really enjoy her job) since having no obligations waiting at home for her at night.

We spent a good chunk of time talking about the office, since I know several people at the same agency and other advertising companies as well, so I have a good amount of knowledge about the business. She has just recently been given the task of putting together an all together new business mailing list and the undertaking of targeting a newly designated market of thousands of people all over the country. This is something new for her and her excitement and her nervousness about the whole project was for some reason I found a bit charming.