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We are hearing more and more about large businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility. Many have heard about Corporate Social Responsibility, but do not know what CSR is or think it is only something large corporations could embrace. Small businesses like yours could practice CSR—but first, what is it? CSR has generally come to mean corporations with a social conscience. Popular examples that you may have heard of are more related to the lack of social conscience or responsibility; for example, garment companies using sweat shops in Asia or fur companies selling fur that came from cats and dogs out of Eastern Europe or… Read more...

I recently received a LinkedIn request from someone I worked with years ago. She'd lost her job, through position elimination, and wanted to reconnect to see if I might be able to offer some assistance. It had been several years (five or more) since we’d even worked together. We were connected on Facebook, but that only gets you so far in staying in touch with your professional network. The Point? So many people avoid finishing, updating, or keeping their LinkedIn profile current. It is similar to your online resume, and is a great place to connect with other like-minded professionals.… Read more...

Judy was a busy entrepreneur, focused on achieving success in her business and creating a large Free Market retirement plan so she could eventually retire and be financially independent. Her goal was to retire in fifteen years. Trouble was brewing, however ...    Judy was a workaholic who only thought about her business. She had plenty of income, but repeatedly neglected to pay her mortgage on time and “forgot” to make credit card payments, due to her tunnel vision regarding her business. Fortunately, her retirement investments were automatically invested electronically each month and on target. Judy needed more balance in her life. Crying, she called… Read more...

Heather called our office. She and her husband wanted to move their portfolio to “three buckets” of fixed income, so they would no longer have any volatility in their portfolio. They would split up their money into three groups of bonds, each with different maturity dates and different interest rates.   Ladies, this is absolutely the wrong thing to do if you plan to live more than five years. Most women, statistically, will live seven years longer than their mothers lived and twelve years longer than their spouses—so you are the ones who will live out the fixed income nightmare scenario… Read more...