Saving Time and Money with the Right Website Developer

May 10, 2012

Guest post by: Fred J. Cohen


We’ve all heard the saying, “time is money” and for busy professionals like attorneys and accountants, juggling overloaded schedules filled with client meetings, court dates and administrative tasks, this is an undeniable reality.  Many professionals, struggle to find the perfect balance between billable work and non-billable tasks like marketing which can require a great deal of time and resources.

To help reduce the amount of time needed for a successful marketing campaign, it’s important that firms work with marketing experts who understand their specific industries. This is especially important when it comes to selecting a website development team as the site should serve as the cornerstone of the firm’s online marketing campaign and must be continuously updated as the practice grows and evolves.

There are a lot of options when it comes to site developers; they include quick do-it-yourself companies, local freelance designers and large corporations which seem to have designed half of the cookie-cutter professional sites you’ve come across in your search. With so many vendors vying for your business it’s important that you consider the following factors to save you time and money when selecting a website developer:

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California Meal Break Lawsuit

May 2, 2012

The California Supreme Court recently ruled to ease up on meal break laws.

As a manager, you probably know how difficult it can be to enforce meal breaks – telling your employees to take them is one thing, actually ensuring that it happens is another. Proponents of the meal break law argue that without it, employers may take advantage of their employees by making them work long hours without a break.

Now, after years of having the California meal break in place to support the employee, judges have rescinded the law in favor of the employer.

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National Labor Relations Act Compliance

April 16, 2012

On April 30th of this year businesses must be compliant with the new National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by posting the new posters.

Failure to do so does not necessarily result in a violation. However, if the employer “knowingly and willfully fails to post the notice, that failure may be considered evidence of unlawful motive in an unfair labor practice case involving other alleged violations of the NLRA,” according to the NLRB’s FAQ on the ruling.

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How to Convert Minutes to Decimals and Back Again

April 3, 2012

Time can be expressed either as fractions, decimals, or as minutes and hours. In order to calculate payroll, minutes need to be converted to decimals so that they can be multiplied by an employee’s pay rate.

If you’re calculating hours at home, you’ll want to convert minutes into decimals. If you’re using the Timesheest.com software, you’ll see decimals and might want to convert them back to minutes (although we do that for you on the timecards). People like to convert back to minutes because that is the way we’re used to thinking about time.

Don’t fret. It is one of the easier business calculations.

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Organizing Your Office: Secrets Revealed

March 22, 2012

Guest Post by Brian O’Connell


In high school I learned that there’s no such thing as “cold” – that the condition we call “cold” is just a lack of heat.

Along those lines, I’d like to suggest that disorganization is just a lack of organization. And it takes time to clean up the chaos that threatens to overwhelm you.

I make CPA websites for a living, which involves plenty of paperwork. I don’t like neatening up my desk every night before I go home, but I have found, after many years, that it actually saves me much more time than it uses.

In the past, I’ve been tempted to hire an assistant just to help keep me organized – but eventually I found that a few simple work habits make all the difference…

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