In-house payroll for small businesses seems the likely choice for those with just a few employees. However, whether you have 10 employees or 1,000, there still are certain payroll laws and IRS reporting guidelines to which you must adhere, not to mention your own cash flow to manage.

Here are four tips to help you make payroll a smooth operation every month:

1. Use Software

   Whatever you do, utilize a software program to help you with payroll. Alternatively, simply use an excel spreadsheet that helps you calculate and save payroll data. The old way of doing payroll by hand in a ledger is outdated and invites too many errors.

   Many small to medium businesses have great success with payroll software like Intuit Payroll, which integrates easily with Quickbooks, and EZPaycheck from HalfPriceSoft.

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A digital media agency is helping residents tackle crime and disorder.

Mosaic Brighton has created a website for the Safer Arun Partnership which aims to make the community a safer place to live.

The Safer Arun Partnership, which replaces the previous Arun Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, wanted to find a cost-effective way to put its message out to the 146,000 people living in the Arun district, and asked Mosaic Brighton, based in Gloucester Road, to get involved.

Georgina Holland, community safety manager at the council, said: “When we undertook customer research we realised that people simply didn’t knowenough about us, so we decided we needed to change that.

“But it’s not just about making people more aware of what we do. We need

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Bid for Government Contracts

If you are a sole proprietor, corporation or partnership and plan to do business with the federal government you will need to be registered in CCR before being awarded a contract.

There’s no cost to register and you can update your company information at any time and in one location via a CCR log in.

Keep in mind all federal government agencies can retrieve your company data from this one central location making the process seamless and hassle free.

So what is CCR?

The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is a government-wide registry and its sole purpose is to collect, validate, store and distribute information.  <

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By day he is a businessman.

But after hours Phil Edwards devotes his time to building a unique electric- powered motorbike which he hopes will smash the UK drag-racing record.

The company director is transforming a standard motorbike into a batterypowered racing machine in time for next year’s Alternative Energy Racing event at Santa Pod, the home of European drag racing in Milton Keynes.

The prototype project has become so big that Phil, who runs Weald Business Solutions, which helps other organisations cut costs and improve efficiency, has set up a new company to take it on and ultimately hopes to sell the skills developed to people in the same field.

The cost is expected to be £10,000 and Phil is inviting firms interested in being associated with the project to offer support.

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Out of the 88 negative rating factors that can hurt your credit score one in particular that I would like to cover in this post are inquiries.  < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

In the credit scoring system credit report inquiries are given two types of classifications one being ‘soft inquiries’ and the other ‘hard inquiries’. Let’s cover these two briefly:

Soft Inquiries

These inquiries do not affect your credit score so don’t be alarmed if you see a lot of these on your file.

There are three main types of credit checks that fall into this classification. <

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Businesses still suffering as a result of landslide last year

All over the country, the SBA is accepting loan applications for small businesses affected by flooding. The Herald Dispatch reports that the SBA recently made loans available to residents and businesses that were victims of flooding in West Virginia and Ohio.

The U.S. Small Business Administration recently called attention to the fact that Economic Injury Disaster Loans were still available for small businesses and non-profit organizations economically impacted by the landslide that took place on October 25, 2009.

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Let’s suppose for a moment that you’ve taken a few steps necessary to establish business credit for your company.  You got approved for a line of credit with a few suppliers, made purchases, paid your invoices and see the payment experience listed on your business credit report.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

After seeing your business credit score you decide to jump into the big leagues and apply for a business credit card without supplying a personal credit check or personal guarantee. 

You’re shocked to find out that your business was declined and you can’t seem to figure out why. You have

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Do you own and operate a franchise? Many entrepreneurs and new small business owners go the route of owning a franchise to get a running start into an established business niche using a recognized name and operating paradigm. However, most often, these entrepreneurs depend too much on the franchisor to perform all search engine optimization tactics. Alas, that folly usually costs the entrepreneur valuable search engine ranking.

The fact is that even with a recognizable name, you need to announce your location, business hours, product or service offerings, special deals, etc. Your franchisor will not do that for you.

You, as a franchise owner, must take ownership of your own SEO efforts.

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