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Dear Galen Workman,
| Are You Suffering from Growing Pains? |
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Unplanned expansion can be as detrimental
to your business as no growth at all.
Fast growth can destabilize a business, giving
its owners a false sense of well being while
the additional revenues eat up more operating
dollars than expected.
If expansion is on your agenda, read our
article on how to do it right.
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| The Early Bird [may] Get the Kindle |
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Sterck Kulik O'Neill is giving away
Amazon.com's new wireless book reader, the Kindle,
in a tax season celebration. Four Apple
Nano iPods will also be awarded to lucky
participants.
When you send us the information we need to
prepare your individual tax return due April
15, 2008,
we will automatically enter you in a drawing
to win an Amazon.com Kindle or
an Apple iPod Nano. The earlier you give us
the information, the more automatic entries
you'll have to win a cool electronic gadget!
Submit your information by February 8 and earn
100 automatic entries. The number of easy
entries decreases each week through March 21.
So, send in your materials early for more
effortless chances to win!
No purchase necessary. Give away
details are in the flier below.
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| 7 Medical Myths |
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Sterck Kulik O'Neill can help with your
fiscal health. It's up to you and your
doctor to care for your physical health.
But, let the British Medical Association
help. They debunk 7 common falsehoods about
your body.
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| Don't Look Like an Online Yahoo |
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Our webmaster knows two practices that will
rob your online persona of any claim to
professionalism:
- Using a generic email service for
business mail
- Underlining words for
emphasis
Service-bureau email accounts are terrific
for personal
correspondence. But if you're
xxx@hotmail.com (or @Yahoo.com, @AOL.com, or
@gmail.com) at work, you're saying that
you're not
serious about your business. Spend
$20 to look like a real business.
While you're at it, make sure that your email
and website only underline words when they
are clickable
hyperlinks.
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Setting Goals by Wishful Thinking |
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The new year spurs businesses and owners to
set 2008 goals for profitability and growth.
Planning seems like sound business practice
and as uncontroversial as apple pie.
But, often these annual plans are wishful
thinking
platitudes or, worse, grow into unrealistic
grandiose schemes which defocus your
businesses and cost you money.
"Make your goals inspirational not
delusional," explains Francisco Dao. For
example, don't just throw out a random
number of $10 million in sales as a goal
"without analyzing how many customers or
units that equals or even if the engineering
and /or supply chain can deliver that number. "
Use Francisco's wisdom for general goal
setting advice. And, please contact Sterck
Kulik O'Neill for help with your business'
specific situation.
Geoffrey P. Kulik, CPA
Partner
Click to Make Your Goals Inspirational
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