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Do You Control your Website’s Domain?

Published in August 24th, 2006
Posted by Michael in Internet
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A client of mine bought his website from a website developer but for various reasons (poor customer service, expensive hosting, difficult to customize, etc) he was considering moving to another provider. When we investigated more closely it turns out that he may not own his website address. It is registered in the name of his [...]

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Vancouver WA Proposed B&O Tax

Published in August 23rd, 2006
Posted by Michael in Taxation
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Looks like the Vancouver City council is facing a future revenue shortage and the latest thinking to bridge the gap is a new B&O tax. Every business owner I have talked to is very much against this new tax. I think the reason is because it is seen to be unfair.

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Do as I do and as I say!

Published in August 22nd, 2006
Posted by Michael in Blogging
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I keep telling my clients that a blog is a good thing — really. But yet I had not quite started my own blog. Get the impression that perhaps my credibility was at stake? It’s not that I didn’t believe it, just that it takes time to set up a blog and then actually create [...]

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