You’ve heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child.” Well, substitute “business” for “child,” and you have the concept of bartering. “Bartering” is the exchange of goods or services for other goods or services instead of money.
Each December I feel as though I should just keep my wallet out and open, ready to dole out a dollar here or a fiver there. The holiday season is packed with spending: shopping, charitable donations and even property taxes.
Taxes aren’t due until April, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start preparing your company for them now. There are a lot of things you can do in the next few weeks to earn a bigger refund – or at
The end of the year provides a good opportunity to evaluate your business supplies. If you purchase items for your office by the end of December, you can deduct them when you do your company taxes. If you’re low on
About 100 McDonald’s restaurants in Germany are changing their red backdrops in their logo to dark green “out of respect for the environment,” according to Holger Beeck, vice president of McDonald’s Germany. The logo color change follows the same practice of McDonald’s
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the usual stuff: my family, my friends, the roof over my head and a day without a hairball offering from my cat. I don’t trust myself to write about my favorite holiday without getting
After you wake up this Friday from your turkey-induced tryptophan coma, do you really want to brave the big-box stores at 5 a.m. for “doorbuster” deals? CNN recommends you eye the fine print on those Black Friday sales, because a
Google Wave is among the latest tools that people are dying to get their hands on. Invitations are exclusively doled out, and I’ve seen folks on Twitter raffling them off. Of course, that just builds up hype, and a lot of
If you’re in your 30s or 40s, your parents’ expectations of your adulthood may have resembled this: Graduate from a four-year college with a job offer and work toward a gold watch after 25 years of service. But then reality set
Mailing out formal invitations is a great way to promote business events such as workshops, seminars, conferences or fundraisers. Printed invitations can communicate the level of credibility, authority and professionalism tied into your event and make guests feel special.
