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BACON – Chapter 9: Trust Me…

Trust is not an event. Trust is a process. Unlike KNOW and LIKE, TRUST cannot be found through an online activity. It has to be accomplished through human-to-human interaction. Trust has to be earned. Once earned, it’s not like a merit badge. It’s more like a battery that has to be recharged constantly. It is…

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Out With the NEW… In With the OLD!

Here are the top five New Year's sayings or cliches: Out with the Old, In with the New New Year, New You Another Chance for Us to Get It Right See You Next Year A Frest Start In reality, it is just another day in a sequence of days. The biggest difference is that it's…

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Your CPA Wants to Know Your CPA

Mistakes… They are only bad if you don't learn from them. Now, there are different levels of bad. You can put the wrong creamer in your coffee bad, or the Three Mile Island, nuke the east coast of the United States bad. But if you live to tell about it, you can always learn something…

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Marketing – Strategy vs. Plan

One of the best ways I know to meet people is to join groups and volunteer. That's how I became a speaker at various events. It's also how I am quickly building my network in my new location in Raleigh, NC. Before I even moved here, I joined the AMA and was invited to be…

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