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Inexpensive Drop Safe Option for Small Businesses

Good morning again. I hope your Tuesday was an exciting and positive one. Today I’m back with another article to follow up my, “4 Screw-ups That made it Easy for an Employee to Steal Cash” and “3 ‘Always Locked’ Office Door Knob Options for Small Businesses” articles. My article from yesterday covered the office door [Continue Reading]

3 “Always Locked” Office or Storeroom Door Knob Options for Small Businesses

A couple of weeks ago there was another cash theft at one of my indoor tanning salon locations. I wrote about it initially in, “Sticky Finger Sally Strikes Again” and followed it up with, “4 Screw-ups That Made It Easy for an Employee to Steal Cash”. As you can imagine I’ve been on a mission [Continue Reading]

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How to Get an Extra Square Credit Card Reader

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time there’s a good chance that you’ve seen an article or two about Square mobile credit card reader. I recently replaced my old school merchant services and credit card machines with the Square card reader and Square app at each of my indoor tanning salon [Continue Reading]

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SEO Project Management: The Chore of Setting and Managing Client Expectations

My experience in project management began in the localization industry, working for a massive, world-wide language services company. In this setting my client contacts were mostly other PJMs from the other massive companies, who were concerned only with having projects completed on schedule and correctly so that their boss wouldn’t give them any shit. In this environment I found [Continue Reading]

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4 Screw-ups That Made It Easy for an Employee to Steal Cash

A few days ago I wrote an article titled, “Sticky Finger Sally Strikes Again”. Check it out if you want more detail in regards to this situation. In the meantime, I said I would have a few more articles to go over how I felt Sally put her hands in the cookie jar, as well [Continue Reading]

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Sticky Finger Sally Strikes Again

It has been one crazy week. Earlier this week things got started off with “sticky finger Sally” ripping off a deposit at one of my tanning salons. This is actually the second time that there’s been a stolen deposit at the same location. The most recent occurrence was back in February 2012. So, it’s safe to say [Continue Reading]

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5 Ways You’re Brutally Slaying Your Chances of Success

If you clicked on the title of this post, then you’re probably struggling to improve at least one aspect of your life. Whether you’re discouraged because your startup isn’t taking off or you can’t seem to focus long enough to crank out that book you’ve been working on, you have to change something in order [Continue Reading]

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5 Reasons SquareRegister Won’t Work for My Small Business

A little over a week ago the good folks at Square released SquareRegister, a POS system for use with iPad. Those of you that read my blog already know how hopped up I am about Square, for those of you that don’t I recently integrated Square mobile payment solutions into each of my indoor tanning [Continue Reading]

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Online Backup System: 4 Things You Should Protect Online

Online backup system is important these days. Before the advent of online backup services, so many valuable and delicate files have been destroyed by malicious scripts or crashed PC. If you’re a blogger, an internet entrepreneur or an offline business owner, the top five things you can store for the future are: 1. Back Up [Continue Reading]

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What Is Customer Service – An Extreme John Feature

Once in a while here at Extreme John I take the time out to give my opinion on something that I feel I am qualified enough to give advice on. By no means do I consider myself a know all, but the fact of the matter is that when you have worked in a certain [Continue Reading]

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39 Tanning Products That Blow Out Every Tanning Season

As I try to work more business related information and tips into my blog that feature the indoor tanning salon niche I seem to keep coming up with post ideas. Somewhat of a surprise since I typically don’t write business tips for tanning salon owners specifically. Most of my articles are targeted towards helping young [Continue Reading]

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3 Reasons Your Delegation Skills Suck

I can’t even believe it’s March 1st already, where the crap did the the past two months go? Instead of standing around here and scratching my head looking for the past two months, I figured I might as well kick off the month and this #WobblyWednesday with something for the leaders out there. As many [Continue Reading]

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3 Reasons Square Mobile Card Reader is Perfect for My Small Business

Not too long ago I mentioned that I had an interest in expanding my Square testing beyond personal testing. After unboxing Square mobile credit card reader and testing the app on an Android HTC Thunderbolt I knew that Square was a solution that would be good for my small business. Once I had the chance [Continue Reading]

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