By Bill Willard Contributing Author The Issue What is your management style? Are you a macro or micro manager? When is micro management appropriate, and why, and when is macro management appropriate and why? What I Think As a small-business owner you interact with your employee ... Re ... Read more

States Offer Voluntary Disclosure Programs to Help With Delinquent Tax Returns By Jonathan Medows, CPA Medows CPA, PLLC (www.medowscpa.com ). Despite the obvious benefits of being your own boss: flexible hours…stimulating daily work…the opportunity to make more money than you ca ... ... Read more

Need an interest-free loan to help out your business?  According to Nate Kok, Assistant Vice President, at Hometown Bank in Appleton, Wisconsin, the SBA has just finalized the America’s Recovery Capital (ARC) Loan Program. Whether you are pro or con on all the bailout ideas coming ... Read more

Crucial conversations – Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler Foreword by Steven Covey McGraw-Hill, 2002, Paperback $16.95 Reviewed by Bill Willard From my own work with organizations, including families, and fro ... Rea ... Read more

 [A version of this article first appeared in the April issue of Corporate Report Wisconsin .]   Who has the entrepreneurial spirit?   Not everyone, that’s for sure.  While many people dream about the romance of being self-employed (I know, romance?), most folks aren’t cut ... Read more

Book Review: The Back to Basics Book of Money –A Couple’s Guide to Financial Peace By John R. Ingrisano. The newly married typically have long, bumpy roads ahead of them under the best of circumstances. An economy that stinks out loud does nothing to improve the terrain. One thing that ca ... Read more

The Issue Can’t wait to outgrow the ties of scale that keep your small business small? Be careful what you wish for! With success comes stricture, and it doesn’t take long to outgrow the fierce independence and responsive vitality of being a freestyle entrepreneur. What I Think ... Read more

People who know me tell me I’m unemployable.  There’s some truth to that.  I’ve been self-employed since 1985.  I’ve been borderline wealthy and down to my last 17 cents.  I’ve had a handful of employees and had a staff of just me … unless you count Rocky the Boxer an ... Read more

The Issue: What’s the number-one business killer on the internet?  It’s pretty obvious, but many of us miss it. The answer? Not being found on the first page of Google. What I Think Millions of Internet searches are punched in every day, many looking for exactly what you an ... ... Read more

By Paul & Tracey McManus, Authors of The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings Lost jobs. Lost homes. Lost hope It’s in the headlines, it’s on the news, and it’s in our day-to-day conversations with people we care about: family, friends, co-w ... R ... Read more