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A question of risk


July 2011

How would losing your web site affect your business?
That might seem like a silly question, but a surprising number of small organizations don't think it can happen to them. Think again -- web sites get lost all the time, through a variety of means. The server hosting your site might have a hardware failure. Your site might get hacked. Your web developer might accidentally delete something critical. Your host might go out of business, leaving you stranded. If you're in the tech world, you hear about these incidents all the time.

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Google+ for small business


The recent beta release of Google+ provides a good opportunity to revisit a topic in which our clients have expressed a keen and consistent interest- leveraging social media to promote small business.

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Microsoft markets OpenOffice.org


So apparently the Microsoft marketing machine is no longer the force it once was. Now it's marketing its competitors! In tech circles, this video has fast become notorious, not just for its crappy production values--but mainly because it makes the people quoted in it sound like idiots.

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How to avoid tax on high income: Create jobs!


The debate about increasing taxes on high-income people rages on in both Washington D.C and Washington State. Here in the state, there's an initiative on the ballot that proposes an income tax on people earning more than $200K (or $400K for joint filers).

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