It has long been standard practice to give people more than they expect in the form of promotional items. The problem, of course, is most people have seen the run of the mill things. This means you need to go beyond the norm to have your items make an imp...

January starts off with a blissful anticipation of a glorious new year. It quickly turns into a panic as you try to get your finances in order so you can issue 1099-MISC tax forms. Ah, but who do you have issue them to? The 1099-MISC tax form is an inf...

The turning of the new year is a time for a new beginning. Unfortunately, January is also the time when the tax season begins in earnest. 1099-MISC filings are on of the first things that come up. 1099 tax forms are known as information reporting form...

You may wonder how the IRS tracks the movement of money so that it knows who owes how much. Well, there are a number of ways and information returns are one of the key ones. What are information reporting returns? They are tax forms the IRS requires y...

It happens every year. You forget to file some tax form and get into a panic trying to find the correct form, fill it out and slam it into the mail before the relevant deadline. This madness may be coming to an end. The efforts of the IRS to update its...

As an employer, you are responsible for a bevy of red tape when it comes to your employees. Making things even better, the rules and regulations regarding that red tape gets changed a bit each year. In 2008, one of the base line employment tax standar...

As we all know by watching the news, the real estate market is pulling back hard from the days of glory earlier this decade. In fact, many people are losing their homes to foreclosure. Few realize the tax consequences of losing one’s home. The Inter...

Every company knows, to a certain extent, that promotional items are one of the best ways to advertise their product or service – but, do unusual promotional products work better than the average item? There are a certain set of promotional items tha...

We have all seen the little things that some companies give out to their customers and prospective customers – pens, and other small items – but what is a promotional item and what can it do? To answer the question, what is a promotional item, you ...

Promotional products are a good way to get customers to notice you – and can be as simple as a piece of candy or other small object – but here's why custom promotional products are best. Not all promo items are personalized. Some companies, particu...

Even if you can define what corporate gifts are – you may have even more trouble answering the following question: how to use corporate gifts to your company's best advantage. Corporate gifts are broadly recognized as anything given out by a company ...

You may already know that promotional items are an important part of advertising your company and getting the word out, but what are corporate gifts and how do they help promote your company? Corporate gifts differ from promotional items primarily in t...

There are a few basic staples of promotional items – pens, pencils, notepads – but how to pick promotional for your business that will really stand out among the rest is another matter. One of the most important things to remember when thinking abo...

It is easy to see the value of promotional items for the business providing them – advertising, and keeping touch with a customer base – but what about giving your customers value through promotional gifts? The first way of giving your customers va...

While most people will have received a promotional item at one point in their careers, the question of what exactly are promotional items can be a bit trickier – as they can be almost any business item. The basic definition or answer to the question ...