Reporting Requirements Repealed (8/11/26) In the latest move, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final ruling that “permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to…
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Buying a Laptop Computer
Shopping for a new laptop computer? Be prepared for sticker shock and, depending on what you choose, an amazing performance and viewability improvements. My 7-year-old Windows 10 laptop crashed in May. After restarting it multiple…
Hiring Minors and Student Interns
Hiring students and minors to work for you during the summer can be the perfect solution if you need extra help for the season. While it can be hard to find adults to fill short-term…
How Content Marketing Became a Thing (and Why You Need to Be Doing It)
When I started working as a freelance writer many years ago, businesses and professionals never heard of content marketing. The term wasn’t coined until 1996. But today, the terms content and content marketing have become…
Voice to Text: A Useful Alternative to Typing
How do you work when your work requires typing but you can’t type much, or you can’t type at all with one hand? The answer is to talk to your computer and have it type…
Gift Ideas for Home Office and Home
Affordable and Useful Gifts Here are a number of gift ideas for the home office and for home. I’m recommending them because they are all items I own (or have older, similar versions of) and…
Holiday Ideas for Small Businesses
The holiday season offers one of the biggest opportunities to make your small businesses shine. Whether you run a retail shop, offer professional services, or sell online, the weeks leading up to the holidays are…
Office Footrests for Pain Relief
An office footrest may not be the first fix that comes to mind when you want to ease the musculoskeletal pains you get when you must sit to work for long periods of time. But…
Timeless Startup Tips
I’ve been my own boss for more than 40 years. During those 40 years, I’ve written books for startups, built a small business content website that reached millions of people a year before another company…
How to Quickly Clean Email from Outlook
It’s time to clear your email inbox. You’ve got 2,892 unread emails sitting there. And there are 4,536 more emails that you’ve opened and haven’t done anything with yet. What can you do about all…