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New tax laws recently passed by Congress could affect your bottom line and your administrative overhead -- especially if your business is an online retailer.
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Of late Getting Things Done by David Allen has seemed like the book to read. I read it a year or two ago, and internalized a lot of its methodology. One thing about it, though
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