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This book doesn’t teach you how to hammer the proverbial nail; it tells you why the nail is required at all and where it should go. You’ll find tips, tricks, warnings, and bits of advice at every step. They’ll help you avoid potential pitfalls and help you build a robust, consistent website that works well across browsers and operating systems. The advice in this book is not random advice about web design; it’s specific to designing websites with Office Live Small Business. It helps you optimize Office Live Small Business’s settings to make full use of its potential. If you’re more adventurous, this book shows you how you can work around some of Office Live Small Business’s limitations. You’ll have to learn bits and pieces of those dreadful three and four-letter technologies, but this eBook will cover them strictly on a need-to-know basis. This book is not for bedside reading; it’s a hands-on instruction manual. It’s meant to be read sequentially. You’ll get the most out of it if you build your website step-by-step as you read it from end-to-end. If this is your first attempt with building a website with Office Live Small Business, that would be the natural progression for you. If you’re wondering how you’d build a website without HTML, relax. This book is not about witchcraft. Your website will, of course, be built with HTML. But you won’t be the one writing the HTML. Office Live Small Business will do it for you. Request Free!

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Business continuity is often thought to be something that belongs to the IT (Information Technology) people in a company, and while it’s true that IT is particularly involved in ensuring business survival during crisis or emergency, it’s a wider issue. It is particularly important for small business owners to pay attention to business continuity planning, since any small business is only one hurricane or fire from oblivion unless there’s a plan in place.

This free white paper can help you understand some of the issues connected with creating a business continuity plan:

Short Description:

The purpose of this paper is to help businesses of all sizes begin the process of developing an effective business continuity plan designed to minimize the impact of disasters and reduce risk.

Long Description: The word, disaster often conjures negative Hollywood images — fiery explosions, great floods or buildings lying in ruins before the credits roll. But the truth is, disasters are anything that can cause a disruption in your business.

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Overview:

Many Americans dream of starting a business. But being self-employed or the employer of others brings a great deal of additional responsibility. This online course discusses the details of starting a business, including how to write a business plan, choosing a business type, obtaining financing, hiring employees, setting salaries, the importance of employee benefit plans (such as health care insurance and retirement plans), marketing, taxes, and business law.

Learning Objectives:

* Know how to write a business plan
* Select between the business forms of sole proprietorship, limited liability company, S corporation, or C corporation
* Use salary surveys for determining employee salaries and setting founder salaries in a startup company
* Describe how to use a marketing plan and advertising agencies in your small business development
* Utilize online HR resources, such as those provided by the Small Business Administration, to research employment law and income taxes

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This is a pretty extensive exploration of the value and potential costs of running a blog for business purposes. As they say in the first page:

Make no mistake: we are blogging enthusiasts. We believe blogging creates opportunities for businesses that no other form of communication can provide. We also believe effective blogging can be learned, but only if circumstances support learning. This document seeks to help you determine if those circumstances exist in your company and if blogging is likely to benefit you and your company. There is no “passing score” for the number of questions checked (a positive indicator). It’s up to you to determine both the answers and their bearing on your decision.

If you decide to blog, we offer some guidance and suggestions to help you get started on the right foot. Because getting started is the biggest step you’ll take.

So, it doesn’t sound like this is a completely unbiased approach, but it still has value.

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Here is another email based course in the HR field, or for people in small businesses who have to do their own hiring. Of course there is no way, in advance, to tell if this course will fill your needs, but then again, it is free, and you can also stop if you find it isn’t for you. Below is their description (from about.com).

Recruit and Hire the Best

Recruiting the best employees for your organization is an ongoing challenge for every manager, supervisor and Human Resources professional. If you’re looking for solid, proven best practices and up-to-the-minute ideas in recruitment, interviewing and selection, you’ve found the right course.

Participants in the class will cover the following areas of interest during the five weeks of the course. You will learn:

* Why an effective job description makes good business sense as the starting point for recruiting staff,
* Creative ways to find potential employees,
* How to use your team for recruitment,
* Top ten recruiting tips,
* How to screen potential employees,
* Eight hiring mistakes employers make: from application to interview,
* Ask right to hire right: how the interview approach can help you select the best candidate,
* Tips for interview approaches, and
* Best practices in interviewing.

You will learn to develop a superior workforce via a documented hiring process that:

* Defines the outcomes desired from the person you hire,
* Develops a job description that clearly describes performance responsibilities,
* Develops the largest pool of qualified candidates possible,
* Devises a careful candidate selection process to hire the best staff,
* Performs appropriate background checks,
* Makes an employment offer that confirms your position as an employer of choice.

Classes start every week. You will receive the weekly study guide on the same morning on which you signed up to have the course delivered to your email address. You can take the class at your own pace, but you will receive the emails every week.

The Recruit and Hire the Best training class is free. The only cost to you is the time you spend working on the lessons.

Click here for more information or to signup