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Own a job, not a business.

You own your own business and make a decent living.  Could you sell your business if you wanted to?  Of do you actually own a job with client(s) who would leave if you  thought about selling? I know a number of franchises are really built around owning a job and...

Keeping track to the penny…

The recent changes over the past few years are making it ever more difficult to cheat on your taxes. This in one way is a good thing and in another a bad thing. Yes, everyone should be paying their fair share of taxes.  All income is taxable and needs to be reported...

New building using every inch of land available.

Des Plaines must have the worst building requirement ever.  I don’t see these stupid moves anywhere else. I know of two new constructions that apparently start on the boundary line of the property.  There were existing building standing and now these new building have...

No single buildings allowed any longer, in certain areas.

I was meeting a client at their location, and I asked why they were renting instead of owning their own location.  Especially with their rent costs. In the past they had owned their own buildings, but now where they were located, single small businesses were no longer...

Networking groups – are they worth the time and money?

In the past I have been a member of a number of groups.  I had spent a tremendous amount of time and never really got a lot of referrals. I thought of putting my own group together, one that would only, be businesses that focused on business owners.  It was to include...

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