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There are different options to make your income more profitable.  Online advertising can turbo charge your business.  Expose your company online.  You can search for many suggestions online to make your business stronger.  Some businesses make 80 percent of their revenue through online marketing companies.

The following are some commonsense suggestions to help you if you ever find yourself a witness to a car accident:
CALL 911: Don’t assume that someone else has done so already.

The first principle is to go into retirement with a plan.  Retirees should answer the following questions:

Now that the deadline to file tax returns has passed, taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief or can they? Here are some cautionary tales:

Yes, that’s right your computer may be committing a crime right now as you are reading this.  Bob Sullivan, a MSNBC Technology Reporter specializing on security, writing in the Red Tape Chronicles blog he does for MSNBC, reports that almost 150 million computers worldwide have been unknowingly hijacked to act as bots in botnet networks.  

Santa Clarita welcomes Wachovia, a residential home loan division.  Wachovia is the fourth largest holding bank in the nation. 

Valencia resident Patricia McMillian has been named Wells Fargo community banking store manager for the newly built Newhall Plaza Wells Fargo banking branch.

In today’s economy, every businessperson is looking for ways to maintain business profits.  Ideas for increasing sales and cutting costs abound.  You’ve probably tried most of them.  But there’s one source of cost savings that is often overlooked and it can be surprisingly effective.

Many times in business, management allows a business to stay at the same level of performance because to change anything takes time, effort and work.  They may not want to put forth the effort.

Last month we discussed ways you can protect your own personally identifiable information (PII).  This month we will briefly cover how businesses who collect information about their customers can help safeguard this data to avoid costly data leaks, exposure or loss of data to a third party you may not know or trust.

“I want to be on top.”
We hear that comment a lot from our clients who want their website to be number one on google, yahoo or any other search engine result. 

Sometimes it’s difficult to find all of the necessary forms, tools and resources needed when you’re trying to turn your dreams of owning a business into a reality without any guidance from people who are in the know.  Never fear, the Small Business Development Center, funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration is here.  Last month, they held their official ribbon cutting at the Santa Clarita Chamber of Commerce offices where they are headquartered.

Whether your looking for a place to invest in real estate at affordable prices or a great place to relocate free from California’s crowds and high cost of living, Austin Texas may be just the answer.  This rapidly growing metropolis is the Capital of Texas and home to the University of Texas.  The 300 days of sunshine, gorgeous Hill Country, cosmopolitan flair and outdoor lifestyle combine with a thriving economy, vibrant job growth, and affordable housing to make Austin very attractive for immigration from other parts of the country.

California law requires that all motorists carry automobile liability insurance.  However, this law often gives motorists a false sense of security, resulting in motorists declining to carry uninsured motorist coverage, which could come back and haunt them when an accident occurs.  Here are some reasons why it is important to carry uninsured motorist coverage.

Although Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) offer some nice tax advantages, high earners have not been able to use them effectively due to tax law restrictions.  In 2010, this law will change.

USCIS a issued press release in which it announced a proposed 86 percent increase in fees for immigration and naturalization benefits, which is needed to improve customer service, strengthen the security of our immigration system and modernize its business structure for the 21st century. 

My seven-year-old daughter recently asked me to define the word irony and I had a pretty hard time coming up with a simple explanation.  I found it easier to give her some examples.  Alanis Morisette’s song was a big help.  But I recently realized that there was some irony in the names of the areas of the law in my law practice.  My practice largely consists of business litigation, a smaller facet of civil litigation and family law. 

We all like to think that we make rational and wise decisions when managing our money. But most of us are influenced far more by our emotions than our brains. Why do smart people make irrational investment decisions so commonly and so easily? The fascinating study of behavioral economics and decision science fills many books, but let’s look at a few of the ways in which investors’ minds play tricks on them.