Networking is crucial to any small business. Whether you’re looking for clients or vendors, who you know will make a difference in the deals you can find. That can translate into attending a lot of networking meetings. Just showing up, though, isn’t enough. If you want to make the most of your networking efforts, you need to follow up with the people you meet. Whether you send out personal emails after an event or pass along opportunities, you’ll get the most out of introductions if you follow up with a real relationship.

The Importance of Follow Up

Phelan Riessen knows networking. Not only is he a serial entrepreneur, but he runs RefreshSD and has helped bring together events like BarCampSD. He ca

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You can rely on payday loans to get rid of cash shortage between paydays. Many emergencies like car repairs, home appliances repair or any health issue can be easily sorted using these loans. So if you do not have a perfect credit, you can easily avail such loans to get rid of such emergencies.

If you have questions regarding very high interest rates offered by payday loans, you should know that the rates are calculated annually and as you know that these are short term loans so there is no need to worry about high interest rate. If you by any means postpone your loan repayment then only the interest rate rises. Read more…

Scrap metal dealers on Wednesday opposed a government plan to ban the export of lead.

Mr Philip Mwabe, the chairman of the Kenya Iron and Scrap Metal Association, said the Ministry of Industrialisation had not consulted his office before announcing its intention to effect the ban.

“We have several lead smelting factories in the country and if the government gazettes the ban, it will affect thousands of people,” said Mr Mwabe during a scrap metal dealers’ meeting at Sapphire Hotel in Mombasa.

The unionist said lead exports bring in a large amount of foreign exchange and that the ban would be punitive.

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The Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution contains fascinating (to a tax geek) and detailed information about taxes.  Particularly informative is the information on the Obama Administration’s 2010 income tax increase proposal.

Here’s a table showing the proposed increases for 2011 and the estimated increased revenue over a 10 year period:

The tax rate increases are bad enough, but I really hate not being able to take advantage of all of my itemized deductions!  The IRS giveth, and then the IRS taketh away.

Please note: if your site is listed with Google already, then any further attempt in submission would not help expedite listing. When you search ‘Google submit’ you can find the page where sites are submitted. Obviously, their page would be the first one to appear, but there are other faster ways to get your site noticed by them.

One good way to get your site indexed quickly by Google is through links from websites that are themselves crawled regularly. Perhaps the quickest and the most successful way is to use the advantages of online directories. Goo Read more…

People begin to think of leaving job as retirement age approaches. In terms of years, these days the operation appears to be long, but when you consider the scenario in terms of time in which a working person can save enough money to be satisfied at the time of retirement, time is very short. Frankly speaking, even after working for 45 years, most people do not have enough capital at the time of retirement so they can leave the workforce.

Today, people are increasingly worried about their retirement plans. One question that haunts mind is how much to save for your future is guaranteed after retirement? But the answer to this simple question is not simple.

Make your spending budgets

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