Look what the cat dragged in: Feline Historical Museum
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Inbound is replacing outbound as the more effective lead generator
How to generate and convert leads through your company’s website.
What you need to know to be ACA compliant with IRS filing requirements
In 2014, the IRS relied on good faith when individual taxpayers verified that they had minimum essential health care coverage. This changes for the 2015 tax year.
How and why you should bring fun to the workplace
Do you wake up excited about another day at the office? I wager to say that there are a good percentage of people who don’t find their job fun. We spend one-third of our life working. Many people think of work as something that cannot be fun. It’s our job as business leaders to make […]
State, federal credits can provide savings for qualifying businesses
Gary Price, a tax partner at Sensiba San Filippo LLP, explores R&D tax credits and how qualifying businesses can benefit.
How to benefit from an Ohio program designed to employ the handicapped
Teri Hinckley, handicap reimbursement specialist at CompManagement explains the handicap reimbursement program in Ohio as well as the impact that an employer may see from filing a request.
Why CFO-to-CFO relationships should be encouraged
Imagine the look on your CFO’s face when you tell him or her, “I want you to make sales calls on our most important customers.” Expect to see a look as though you grew two more heads and hear responses of, “Huh?” “You’re kidding” and “No way!” How often have you wasted sales professionals’ valuable […]
The branding process
Last year, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce embarked on a major project — creating a new image or brand. It was big and quite frankly undertaking a project like this was kind of scary.
Facing the choice to punish or reward employees’ unauthorized projects
Innovation is taking place in your company right now. Employees are finding novel ways to accomplish tasks, they’re exploring new market and product ideas, and creating and utilizing new technologies. And why not? You have been encouraging them to innovate, extolling them to invent the state of the art in your industry. You should be […]
Innovation: A hollow word that means a lot
This month, columnist John Myers covers an interesting subject — the idea that employees are driven to innovate for their own purposes. That they would spend their own time, or carve out company time, to create a product or service, or improve a process that ultimately benefits the company much more than the individual employee. […]