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Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is one of the most important things that any business can do for their web efforts. The simple reason is, as noted before, local search is quickly moving away from the yello

General Contractor, What Licenses Do You Really Need?

Key Points: • Does a general contractor need more then just a building license? • Potential liability issues or exposure for a GC actually doing work on a job site without the appropriat

Summer Internships Are Not Free Labor

The recession, and the resulting loss of jobs, has prompted people of all experience levels to apply to companies for internships. Often they are willing to work without pay in order to get their feet

What’s In A Domain Name?

Domain names are literally the addresses of the web. When someone needs to mail you something, they send it to your physical address. When someone wants to go to your website, they’ll type in y

ADA Violated When Employer Responds to State Subpoena and Discloses Former Employee's Medical Record

Companies frequently receive requests for information about current and former employees. These requests often come in the form of an attorney's demand letter or a subpoena and apply to the individual

3-Step Market Intelligence for Agents

This series excerpt was prepared by GeoLogix Solutions’ Jim Hearn and originally ran as the featured Marketing article in the September 2010 issue of Rough Notes magazine. GeoLogix Solutions wa

Business Websites

AgentsofAmerica.ORG is pleased to launch the newest service available to its members and readers, AOA Market Solutions. AOA Market Solutions was developed primarily as a way for our members and reader

Developing People ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence

There is tremendous opportunity and satisfaction as a leader in developing others. By effectively developing the people around us, we elicit excellence in a number of impactful and far-reaching ways.

Landfall: Tropical Storms and Producer Pitfalls

  By James D. Ebanks and Christian R. Johnson   “Landfall!” This simple word scientifically defines that time when a tropical storm or hurricane reaches the coast and begins to trave

3-Step Market Intelligence for Agents

  This series excerpt was prepared by GeoLogix Solutions’ Jim Hearn and originally ran as the featured Marketing article in the September 2010 issue of Rough Notes magazine.     In

Where the Internet Comes In?

So where does the internet play into all of this? Why is it so important for businesses to be not only using the web, but using it as a major part of their marketing mix? What makes the internet so sp

Three Step Market Intelligence for Agents

This series excerpt was prepared by GeoLogix Solutions’ Jim Hearn and originally ran as the featured Marketing article in the September 2010 issue of Rough Notes magazine. Installment #1 I

Digital Marketing for Modern Business

This is the first in a series of 12 lessons on Marketing and Managing an Online business.   There is a very big problem that marketers and businesses face in today’s business world. This

Employers Have Rights, Too: Eighth Circuit Issues Two Pro-Employer FMLA Decisions

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has issued two decisions just two days apart in favor of employers sued for alleged violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Each case se

The Science of Selling

Introduction Wallace Wattles was born in 1860 and died in 1911, and although most have never heard of him, he wrote a groundbreaking book in 1910 called “The Science of Getting Rich”. In

Leaders Can't Be Trained

  Despite the hundreds of books, programs and websites devoted to leadership, the truth is that leaders can't be trained. Leaders need to be developed. Hopefully this doesn't seem like a

The Supreme Court Considers The Privacy Rights of a Public Employees Communications of an Electronic

Key Points:   Implication of electronic media on private as well as governmental employers.

Examination or Physical Agility Test: Not Knowing the Difference Could Result in an ADA Violation

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) generally prohibits the medical examination of an applicant or employee as it may uncover a disability or the nature and severity of a disabilit

NY COURT OF APPEALS DECLINES TO EXPAND LIABILITIES FOR ACCOUNTANTS, LAWYERS, BANKERS & OTHER PROFESS

In an opinion issued October 21, 2010, the New York Court of Appeals “decline[d] to alter our precedent ... to bring about the expansion of third-party liability.” This decision could offe

Employers Don't Need to Worry About Bedbugs . . . Or Do They?

Bedbug infestations reported recently in major cities, including New York, Detroit and Cincinnati, have again drawn public attention to this growing pestilential nuisance. A casual observer might assu

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