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Monthly Buzz #40
Transform Your Business
August 2005


FEATURE:
Protecting Yourself from Fraud

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORNER:

TAX BRACKET:
Hobby Loss Rule


Feature:

Protecting Yourself from Fraud

Ready to launch your business? Learn the top three ways new home business owners get scammed.


Business Development Corner:

How to Recruit Top Talent

Having trouble attracting quality applicants? Your business's culture may be to blame.

10 Direct Mail Secrets

Check out these tips for creating effective direct mail pieces on a budget.

Knowing When to Quit

If you still can't raise the money you need to fund your business, it's time to decide if you should stay in the game or throw in the towel.

Buying a Restaurant Franchise

Do you have what it takes to be a successful restaurateur? 


The Tax Bracket:

Hobby Loss Rule

- Pam Stenger

Information on the rule created to prevent taxpayers from writing off the cost of conducting recreational, pleasure, or other hobby activities.


Memorable Quotes:

"It is hard to beat a person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth, Baseball Legend (1895-1948)

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist (1803-1882)

"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them."
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright (1856-1950)


DISCLAIMER
Information provided in this publication is intended as general information only and should be considered carefully for your own business situation before use. This firm and any associated companies accept no responsibility or any form of liability from reliance upon or use of its contents.
 

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