When times are tough, people can get disparate…. As the economy huffs and puffs along, it has left in its wake a surge in business theft, and this trend has had a disproportionate impact on smaller businesses. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), employee theft at businesses with less than 100 employees cause an average loss of $200,000; that’s $57,000 more than the average loss of bigger businesses.
A while back I did a series on employee theft in general- what the effect is, how to spot it, and how it can be prevented within a small business. Rece
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You’ve probably heard a million times that social bookmarking is super important. I won’t argue that point – not one bit. Social bookmarking is one of those things that can have a HUGE impact on your traffic, helping you to increase your readership from multiple corners of the Internet. So, how do you turn those supposedly useful tools into powerful traffic sources? Here are 7 tips to get you going.
1. Bookmark More on Less Sites – Don’t use so many sites and try to bookmark so much content. Do you think it helps to have a handful of really good posts or dozens of poorly written, template posts? Go for quality.
2. Bookmark
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Sometimes in an effort to cut costs, free up time, and conserve resources we can loose sight of our own internal strengths and capabilities. Before outsourcing any processes or tasks to an outside third party, make sure to take stock of those areas that should remain in-house.
Starting at 9am ET (2pm UK), Bernanke will be questioned by a bipartisan panel chaired by Phil Angelides, a former Democratic state treasurer of California, as part of a series of evidentiary sessions entitled “too big to fail: expectations and impact of extraordinary government intervention and the role of systemic risk in the financial crisis”.
Following up from yesterday’s appearance by the former Lehman Brothers boss Dick Fuld, the panel are sure to ask Bernanke about the US government’s controversial path in allowing Lehman to file for bankruptcy – despite putting together rescue packages for other banks including Bears Stearns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual.
A cerebral figure, Bernanke has a habit of speaking in tortuously lengthy sentences.
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— Raymond Mcdaniel @ 5:45 am — 
September 4, 2010