Every office needs a coffee table.  Whether it’s to hold meetings with clients around, spread out potential magazines for querying on or to simply have somewhere to rest your feet during your mid-morning break, a coffee table has a variety of uses. Unlike my previous two posts (how to build a desk and a bookcase ), I haven’t actually made this coffee table myself.

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How To Build A Home Office – The Coffee Table

Sometimes I sit down to write the introductions to these weekly wrap-ups, and I’ll try to think of some funny way to describe why you or I might not have seen this week’s posts. This week, however, I don’t really have to try to find a reason, because I’ve been frantically launching my Question the Rules course

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of April 26, 2010

While I was catching up on my email this weekend, I had a nice conversation with Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest.com. I’ve mentioned before that Guest Blogging is a great way to increase blog traffic , and also get quality inbound links that will help your pages rank better in the major search engines. It’s the easiest way to get targeted traffic

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Free Guest Blogging Exchange -Nice!

Userlytics.com is recruiting testers to perform usability tests on websites, applications, and other online properties. You must have a PC, webcam, and a microphone (built-in OK). No experience required! From their ad: “If you meet our technology requirements, have an adventurous spirit, and a strong desire to improve the web, we can provide you with additional income

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Make Money from Home: Userlytics Recruiting Testers

For those aren’t aware, I recently put out an offer for free one-on-one coaching for one freelance writer who was ready to leave content mills behind to pursue a more serious business. The responses were inspiring — from truly great writers who were tired of being told they should be happy and / or proud to work for mills, people with outstanding credentials who could be doing so much more. Sadly, I only have time now to work directly with one writer.

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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – April 30th

Navigating India’s legal landscape often reminds me why the tale of the elephant and the six blind men originated in that country. Before setting up a corporate entity in India, my partners and I spent a great deal of time asking experts worldwide — including senior executives, accountants, and attorneys in India — in the life sciences industry about the right legal structure

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India’s Elephantine Legal System: Tips for Start-Ups

You just can’t stop the word from spreading in China — as McDonald’s recently discovered. In March, the American fast food chain invited people who had discount coupons on chicken wings from any restaurant in China — including rivals like KFC — to use them to buy McSpicy Wings at a discount

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The Power of Word-of-Mouth in China

Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. Start-ups supposedly don’t have time for detailed processes and procedures. And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas

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The Five Whys for Start-Ups

CIRCULAR NO 120/01/2010- ST. , Dated: January 19, 2010 Subject: Problems faced by exporters in availing refund of excess credit – regarding CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 permit taking of credit of inputs and input services which are used for providing output services or output goods.

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Service Tax Circular 120/01/2010-ST-, dtd 19.01.2010

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” ~William Morris, poet and designer Imagine the household you would have if you got rid of every item that was neither useful or beautiful. Gone would be the plastic doodad with no known purpose, the ugly frame your great-aunt gave you, the Special Free Offer™ you never opened, the collection of someday-useful peanut butter jars . . .

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The Two Vital Attributes of Quality Content

NOTIFICATION NO 23/2010 – Service Tax, Dated: April 29, 2010 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service referred to in sub-clause ( zzc ) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, when provided in relation to Modular Employable Skill courses approved by the National Council of Vocational Training, by a Vocational Training Provider registered under the Skill Development Initiative Scheme with the Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the Finance Act.

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Service Tax notification No: 23/2010 dtd 29.04.2010 – Commercial training or coaching service

The proposed Changes • fresh Coffee Debt Relief Package, specifically for the small growers. As per this, for pre-2002 loans, 50 per cent of the total liability shall be waived subject to a maximum benefit of Rs.5 lakh per farmer to be borne by Government of India Direct Taxes • Considering the pressing need for more hospitals all over the country, it is proposed to include the business of a new hospital anywhere in India, with at least one hundred beds for patients, as a `specific business’ for availing the benefit of investment linked deduction

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Finance Bill passed by Lok Sabha

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Bright Hub (a content mill I used to write for) inviting me to help them write some 60 titles for a private client commission for about $20 a pop. Another content mill, Demand Studios, recently partnered with USA Today to start providing travel tips for their website.   To some writers, these partnerships and commissions are clearly a sign that the freelance writing sky is falling and we are all going to have to be happy working for pennies before you know it

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Why Low Paying Gigs Are and Are Not Your Problem

I don’t usually blog here specifically about Bang the Table, but as anyone close to me will tell you, I love a graph and or a stat, and I’m a little too proud of these to keep them entirely to myself. When you’re working hard to get a new business up and running it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget to sit back and review the journey. I did just that this morning and was pleasantly surprised by the results

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We’re growing up

Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately. Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York – Presbyterian Hospital. As reported first by the Wall Street Journal, Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that bid rigging and fraud at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital resulted in the hospitals awarding contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to outside contractors

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Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teaching Hospitals

Let me start by telling you that it is still possible to make money on eBay — A lot of it! For most people it’s not as easy as it used to be, but it can still be done. There are many people earning a great living from their eBay home businesses and it’s still a really good way to start an online home business, or just earn extra money if you need it. Many people who start eBay businesses actually begin as buyers to get the feel for things and then start selling things around the house that they do not need for some extra cash.

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Secrets of Making Money on eBay

This blog often talks about the failure of leaders in health care. The April, 2010, issue of Harvard Business Review boasts an entire “Spotlight” Section on this subject. Perhaps the two most interesting articles in this section, both by big names– Atul Gawande and Tom Lee –among today’s medical chattering classes, are entitled, respectively, “Health care needs a new kind of hero,” and “Turning doctors into leaders.” The first, an interview, first touts the good doctor’s vaunted emphasis on checklists , then goes on to plead for improved training in team-play: “we don’t train physicians how to lead teams or be team members.” The second, by Dr

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Pondering Leadership

Every once in awhile, someone asks me why I have pink hair. (You ever notice that no one asks why anyone has blonde hair, or red hair? But pink, it seems, requires a good reason.) There are a lot of ways I could answer that question, but the simplest is probably that I don’t really buy into the standard set of rules about what “success” or “professionalism” look like.

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Question the Rules to Create a More Remarkable Business (and Life)

Here are today’s job listings. Good luck! Art/Design Enthusiasts that enjoy taking Pictures and Video Wanted (Greater Seattle or Surrounding Areas) Biotech B2B Telemarketing Representative PHP – Facebook connect , twitter , web services (Dallas texas) Freelance designer needed for FULL TIME short-term assignment Generation Y Columnists Needed Rapidly expanding Wimax & Telecommunication Company Writer Needed For Parenting Magazine Entrepreneurial Sales

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Work at home job listings for 4/28/2010

If you’re looking for an easy way to dress up your writing and to improve its readability in English, your sentences likely hold the answer.

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Simple Sentence Basics for ESL Writers