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Small Business Training
Tom Crouser is available for business training presentations in many areas of small business management, especially with companies with 3 to 15 employees. He has programs especially related to small business finance; organization; business to business sales training; and transitions of businesses from the first to second generations. Tom Crouser is author of “Prospering: Putting […]
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How Not to Sell the Business, part I
A front page article in the morning paper was about a local printing company’s auction. “The six-color press was almost too big for this market,” is what the owner said. Hum, almost? That there is what’s called “stinking thinking,” which got me going through my file where I found a ten-year ole tale of similar […]
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Price Guides Released for 2014
Crouser & Associates, Inc. is proud to announce the release of our 2014 software for estimating printing. Both Digital and Offset (PC and Mac versions) are currently available for purchase and download from our website’s downloads area. To purchase a new subscription, you can use our online store by clicking one of the following links: […]
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Backups: a Case for Redundancy
A question commonly asked is what type of backup solution to select? Should you have a local backup, a cloud based backup or a hard drive based RAID (redundant array of independent disks) system? Well, the short answer is all of the above. Each type of backup has its own strengths and weaknesses. Local backups […]
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Caution: Section 179 Depreciation
According to Section179.org, the 2015 deduction limit is $25,000. This is the amount of new or used equipment (or off-the-shelf software) you may purchase, put into service and write off as a direct deduction to your income this year. What’s bad about that? Nothing is bad, specifically. What’s bad is the way you PAY for […]
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