If you answered true to the above question, you are correct. If you answered false to the above question, you are correct in all meaningful respects. The best answer to the question is: Both of the above. Historically, employment relationships were a voluntary relationship, which either party could end at will. Only when people entered read more
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Cyber Security
According to a recent publication by the National Small Business Association, 44 percent of small businesses reported being a victim of a cyber attack. In our increasingly online and mobile environment it is no surprise that our daily routines create an abundance of personal and business-related data just waiting to be abducted for criminal use. read more
Does Caring for Aging Parents Mean Becoming a Small Business?
Recently, a friend asked some questions about employing in-home help for her elderly parents. The family wanted to do everything in compliance with state and federal tax and employment laws, and she asked me to look over her questions. Little did I suspect that finding the answers the question “How to employ help for your read more
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
Starting a business is something that a lot of people dream about, few execute, and of those who do, even fewer find success. If you dream of starting a business, you are not alone. From writing a business plan to forecasting start-up costs, revenues and expenses there is help waiting for you. When you set read more
Tapping Into the U.S.-Canadian Economic Engine
Business activity along the New York-Quebec corridor has come a long way since the early days of fur trading up and down the waterways of the St. Lawrence and Hudson Rivers. A perfect storm of economic temptation has steadily increased Canadian interest in the U.S. market throughout the past 30 years, and northern New York read more
Part II: Tips To Prepare For PFL
PART II: TIPS TO PREPARE FOR PFL By Jacqueline M. Kelleher, Esq. In last month’s article, the basic rules for New York’s new Paid Family Leave law (PFL) were outlined. In this article, some of the considerations for implementing PFL are discussed. With legislation this sweeping, it is impossible to describe all of the repercussions, read more
Coaching Employees Through Organizational Change
Without a doubt, business plans, spreadsheets, and process flowcharts are essential for the smooth functioning of a successful business. Many hours of number crunching, market analysis, and carefully crafted what-if scenarios can produce a nearly fail-safe plan of action. Unfortunately, a strong plan in writing means nothing without committed people to bring the ideas to read more
Using Facebook to market your business
In times past, a business might get away with ignoring social and digital media as a marketing tool to spread the word about their products and services and still be successful. These days you don’t have to look farther than the typical waiting room, customer line or restaurant table to find irrefutable evidence that things read more
Best Practices May 2017
Economic growth is a good thing. Sustained, controlled, and over a period of time, steady growth is the fuel that drives a community to be successful. The more tax-paying businesses and people there are, the greater the community’s potential to offer the resources and services necessary to attract and sustain them. Over the past decade read more
Best Practice May 2017
The cost of physical space for a business typically accounts for a significant percentage of its overall operating costs. In parallel with home ownership, there are advantages and disadvantages to owning your commercial property vs. renting it. We at Strictly Business know that business owners are pulled in a thousand directions and might not have read more