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Four Qualities of Good HOA Board Members
Homeowners associations originally emerged in the United States in the mid-19th century, but have become increasingly popular since 1964. As of 2012, as many as 63.4 million individuals were members of the 325, 203 homeowners associations located in the U.s. These organizations offer residents a number of benefits, such as shared neighborhood values and opportunities…
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Three Cool Types of Custom Signs that Will Make Your Business More Visible
There is a huge focus in advertising these days on the digital realm and how you can use it to market your business, but this can cause business owners to neglect one of the most important part of their image — their brick and mortar store. Even if people find your business online, they still…
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Buying Used Tech Can Save You Money, but You Have to Be Smart About It
Technology has come to define just about everything we do in the modern age. Without reliable technology, we’ll be crippled when it comes to connecting with our friends and family on Facebook and other popular social media platforms. Mobile technologies allow us to research and follow our favorite businesses, and computers built in to our…
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Four Things You’ll Save When You Outsource Billing for Your Business
Do you have a billing department for your business? Or do you have employees who cover billing responsibilities but could be performing more essential tasks instead? If so, you are one of the many business owners who could outsource billing services to another company. Outsourcing billing doesn’t just mean reducing manpower: by using another company…
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What Additional Services Do Canadians Get from Their Small Business Health Insurance Plans?
Health care in Canada is famous throughout the world for being “universal” — that is, it uses a publicly funded system to deliver mostly free benefits through private institutions. However, this doesn’t tell the fully story of how Canadians receive their health care. Because as many as 98% of businesses in Canada are considered small…
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Three Ways Blister Packaging Keeps Your Medicine Safe
The most important part of pharmaceuticals packaging is safety. If pills or other medications are tampered with or changed in any way, this can have dangerous consequences for the people who take them. Ensuring that medications are safe for humans use after production starts with the packaging, and here are three ways that blister packaging…
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Four Essential Questions to Ask Sales People For Hire
Hiring sales people can be tough, and since the turnover for a sales team is about 40% per year, you probably have to do it often. When you do hire someone, you wan them to be able to stick around for the long haul which means you need to start by hiring the right candidates.…
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What You Need to Know About Homeowners Association Management Services
Are you tired of running into walls with your homeowners association board? Do you find yourself frustrated talking to vendors or negotiating complex legal issues? Or are you simply drowning in paperwork from some new HOA legislation? It might be time to invest in HOA community management. What is HOA Community Management? Homeowners association management…
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The Basics of Bevel Gears
There are many types of custom gears, but custom bevel gears have been used in important inventions throughout history, making possible varied machines from the simple water-powered gristmill to the printing press to the space shuttle. But what exactly is a bevel gear, and how has it developed today? Bevel Gears 101 A gear, also…
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The Impact of Groundwater Depletion
Our planet’s water is both created and destroyed by natural chemical reactions that occur in both plants and animals in order to sustain life here on Earth. The water we use changes phases (vapor, liquid, solid) through what is known as the water cycle. Only 3% of the planet’s water is fresh water, which is…