Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Posted by admin on Mar 9, 2010 under business
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Music video from season 1, episode 5.
Finding ‘peachy’ Ways to Deduct Your Business Fun!
Posted by admin on Mar 9, 2010 under business
As a “numbers” person, I’m forever looking for ways to apply the latest tax deductions to my industry outings. So while driving to a business luncheon, I saw several Georgia peach stands that had me thought about some ‘peachy’ sweet tax deductions. As a business owner, you need to acquire sure that you are enjoying the many tax advantages available. But there are multitude of legal amenities for you to deduct your business meals and other associated entertainment expenses. Here are a few key strategies to keep in mind as you legislation your business meals.
‘Peachy” tax strategy #1 – Organize your business meal for the purpose of discussing specific business
Your prospect must reasonably expect a business reason for the meal or entertainment. This purpose can be anything on “trying to obtain a referral” to “talking about utilizing your services.”
‘Peachy” tax strategy #2 – Make sure you discuss business when you eat your ’sweets’
You must substantiate your meal or entertainment by answering these five questions:
·Who? Identify the person(s) entertained by name, official titles, and a greater number of information to establish the business relationship.
·Where? Describe the place of the meal or entertainment, if not clearly written on a receipt (for example: you lost your receipt, so you hand-write a receipt for meals and entertainment less than $75). Yes, you read this right. No receipts are needed for entertainment rates under $75 per cost per the Income Tax Regulations.
·When? The date the meal or entertainment takes place.
·Why? Be specific, but to the point. For example “discussed probable joint venture” or “tried to get referrals”.
·How much? The cost have got to be recorded and evidence is required when the prices is $75 or more.
‘Peachy” tax strategy #3 – Sweeten the Pot: Deduct “associated entertainment” among your business prospect
‘Associated entertainment’ takes place in a non-business setting. However this ‘associated entertainment’ must precede or follow a substantial and bona fide business discussion during the same day as the entertainment. So it’s okay if there are no business discussions during the entertainment. Nice to know, huh?
Author’s tip: Develop the habit of writing your business meals, associated entertainment, and other tax deductions in a tax diary or organizer. This will save you thousands and allow you to enjoy your business meals and entertainment without stressing about an IRS audit. How ass it is!
virgilio vallecera
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/finding-peachy-ways-to-deduct-your-business-fun-750401.html
Learn English with Steve-Business English 1-Job Interviews
Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010 under business
study with Steve privately: http://privateenglishportal.com/contact-steve
Duration : 0:7:58
UK/DK The Business: ‘Blind Justice’
Posted by admin on Mar 7, 2010 under business
The Business explains the Punk/Skin relationship and the song Blind Justice.
Duration : 0:5:8
Business English Vocabulary for ESL – Project Management 1
Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2010 under business
Visit http://BusinessEnglishPod.com to view and download more videos on Business English vocabulary for ESL.
This Business English video ESL lesson introduces English vocabulary for discussing projects and project management in English
Duration : 0:10:2
Benefits Office Small Business Edition (office Sbe) 2003
Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2010 under business
Manage Customers and Sales Leads More Effectively
Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 uses familiar, integrated, easy-to-use software to help you manage customers and sales opportunities more effectively, create marketing materials in-house, manage e-mail, and share information efficiently.
Running a small business is never easy. You need to get a handle on large amounts of information and find a way to get everything done quickly – all within a budget. Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 can help you find new customers and pursue sales leads effectively, even if customer information exists in a number of places.
Build Great Customer Relationships
Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager makes it easy to manage all your customer relationships. It can help you increase profits by assisting as you follow up on sales leads and business opportunities. You can consolidate activities relating to a customer, account, or opportunity all in one place for easy retrieval. You have instant access to all email messages, notes, phone calls, appointments, tasks and documents for any customer. Then you can run one of the preformatted reports to gain further insight into your customers’ activities.
Keep Customer Acquisition and Retention Costs Down
Make the most out of the time and money you spend to gain new customers and keep your current ones. Use the integration between Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager to help manage mailing lists and track marketing campaigns.
New features you’ll love:
· Send personalised, professional-looking email messages and newsletters to your mailing lists.
· Sort and organise your business contacts the way you prefer using Outlook 2003.
· Link Office System documents to your Contacts so you can always find them.
· Open and view Office documents from within Outlook 2003.
· Export reports on your customers and sales opportunities into Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003.
· Create mail-merge documents quickly and easily in Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Publisher 2003.
· Build personalised newsletters from a variety of Word 2003 and Publisher 2003 templates.
· Attach faxes and scanned documents to your contacts.
Important points to know:
· Business Contact Manager is an add-on to Outlook 2003. Both are part of the Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 suite.
· Business Contact Manager works seamlessly with other Microsoft Office applications.
· It is a “single user” contact management solution to help small businesses with less than 25 employees, or little IT infrastructure.
GT Kimberly
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/benefits-office-small-business-edition-office-sbe-2003-751027.html
World Business: Interview with Nazir Razak – 26/02/10
Posted by admin on Mar 5, 2010 under business
World Business: CIMB is not only one of the biggest universal banking groups in its home country of Malaysia, but also in South East Asia generally. It reaches nearly two thirds the population of ASEAN and has the largest network of retail branches in the region. Eckart Sager caught up with the Groups Chief Executive, Nazir Razak in Kuala Lumpur to get his take on how well the Malaysian financial sector has weathered the economic storm.
Reporter: Eckart Sager
Duration : 0:6:38
Dreaming About Working From Home? Start an Online Business
Posted by admin on Mar 5, 2010 under business
When it comes to building an online business, you can not play unless you get in the game. Get started and stop dreaming. Without spending a small fortune, here are a couple of ways you can start an online business.
1. One thing you can do to develop your own online business is to purchase an existing website or blog. Because they may not want to go through the problem of building the website and monetizing it with products this makes sense for many people.
This is also true with purchasing a blog. Today blog flipping is becoming a big business and it’s a great way for you to get an attractive blog with a platform such as Word Press.
For a couple hundred dollars, or less, you can have a domain name and your own blog set up and ready for you to start marketing. For people who do not want to learn HTML code, or the initial startup costs that come with an online business, it’s fast, and it’s a smart way to start an online business.
2. To search for information is one of the many reasons that people today go online. This presents a great free opportunity to start an online business.
You can join an affiliate program known as Clickbank.com and have access to thousands of digital information products in the matter of a few minutes. The interesting thing about this affiliate program is each digital product will be ready for you to market with your own affiliate website.
You will earn a commission each time you make a sale off of this website. Clickbank handles all of the details and sends you a check two times a month. By selling nothing but digital information products as a Clickbank affiliate, there are many people earning a full time income, and even getting rich.
One way to start an online business with this is to market your products using the pay per click business model. You can check out both Google Adwords, and Yahoo! Marketing, to determine which might be the best fit for the products you are wanting to market.
In summary by purchasing an existing website or blog, you can definitely stop dreaming and start an online business as an affiliate marketer. These are two ways that don’t cost a lot of money
and can get you into Internet Marketing.
Paul Jesse
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/dreaming-about-working-from-home-start-an-online-business-751191.html
Skid Row – Monkey Business (Live at Wembley 1991)
Posted by admin on Mar 4, 2010 under business
Skid Row opened for Guns N’ Roses at Wembley Stadium, London, UK on August 31, 1991.
Duration : 0:6:56
2000s Decade Recap – Business and Technology
Posted by admin on Mar 3, 2010 under business
Starting out on a high, the financial problems didnt take long to surface. Meanwhile, the 2000s brought us Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, while Google began its quest to take over the world. Apples iPod and iPhone swept the market, and breathed new life into the Apple brand. But who can forget the financial crises, fraud and incompetence that made headlines throughout the decade? Life savings and homes lost, companies failing and government bailouts became the reality in the 2000s. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com reviews these and more biz and tech milestones from the first decade of the new millennium.
Duration : 0:3:23