If Home Depot and yes, even the Healthcare.gov aren’t safe from hackers, do you fear it’s just a matter of time until your company’s network is compromised, too? Fortunately, there are concrete steps you can take to minimize the chances your network will be hacked. While some safeguards cost more money than others, if your network is of paramount importance to your business’s success, the investment might be worth it. Read more...

“Most businesses start out with the cash method of accounting because owners don’t know how well their business will do,” says Yaritza Delorenzo, co-founder of Florida-based BusySuperVA, a company providing virtual assistants to a wide range of clients. Among the many hats Delorenzo wears is bookkeeper to many of her firm’s customers, so she is extremely familiar with both the cash method and its distant cousin, the accrual method of accounting.  Read more...

“Blogging helps establish you as a thought leader and expert,” says Pittsburgh attorney Wendy Witt, Director of Advisors Forum. That organization is a holistic legal marketing support arm of Wealth Counsel, a national consortium of nearly 4,000 estate planning attorneys. Although Advisors Forum created its web site in 2006, Witt only recently started blogging on it to supplement the information the site already provides readers. Read more...