President Obama and Republican legislators put together a compromise tax and unemployment benefits package, which will still need to be voted on by Congress See the full article for details of the deal at http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=938

The Chinese are becoming more affluent and have been upgrading their diet. This leads to more imports of agricultural products from the United States. This has been complicated by the Fed’s quantitative easing, which has resulted in significant devaluation of the US Dollar. Read the full article for what this means in terms of problems and the opportunity it creates for you.

Total cost of ownership for a car or SUV depends on operating costs like fuel, maintenance/repairs, insurance, as well as financial costs like interest, depreciation, and sales tax. Here is a list of the vehicles in each category, from subcompact through SUV.

Tracking airline flight status is easy with this online tool. Enter the airline code and flight and see the real-time status of that flight, or see the all flight data for an airport or a route between two airports.

Here are some ways to save time, money, and aggravation if you want to park at an airport. Why hassle with hunting and hoping to find a spot to part at the airport when you can get a reserved spot and free shuttle service to your terminal at significant savings? I’ve collected some of the better off-airport parking reservation sites for you, which cover most of the larger airports and some of the smaller ones.

Help a Reporter Out, or HARO, is a phenomenon that sprung up from one entrepreneurs mailing list of contacts between reporters and experts, and has grown into a global phenomenon.
You can leverage HARO – as an expert fulfilling source needs, or as an expert looking for anecdotal or contrasting information. Continued - click here >>

I’ve added these business books to my library and recommend that you pick one this month, read it, and apply it in your business.

Japan’s economy has slowed to third place behind the US and China. The Yen hits a new high and Japanese stocks hit a new low. Massive government intervention is likely but some Japanese companies have done well despite the poor economic outlook. Learn how this will affect you and your investments. Details at http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=829

Business credit bureaus provide reporting on the creditworthiness of business clients. It’s funny how businesses who extend credit to an individual will routinely run a credit check, but they will extend credit to a business without taking the same precaution. Here’s how you can run a credit check on a potential business client:

Billy Joel, when interviewed about his music, made some observations that can be applied to the current state of the medical profession and the challenges that we face (or avoid facing). See the full article at physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=921 to see how you can overcome these challenges and how I can help you.

Here are some simple steps that you can take to improve the chances you will be paid in full while maintaining a good relationship with your clients.

Getting paid on time is just as important as any other aspect of running a business because, without payment from your clients, you will soon run out of the cash you need to run your business, pay your suppliers, your employees, and yourself. See the full article at http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=797

Billy Joel, when interviewed about his music, made some observations that can be applied to the current state of the medical profession and the challenges that we face (or avoid facing). See the full article at physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=921 to see how you can overcome these challenges and how I can help you.

The phone can be a great tool for getting things done or it can be a time vampire, depending on whether you use it effectively or whether it uses you. We take the phone for granted, so we assume that what we’ve been doing for years is the only way way to use it. Here are some tips for getting more done in less time by using the phone more effectively (see the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com/?p=762 )

Here are some tips you can use to do better when purchasing your next car by avoiding the financing pitfalls that await the unwary.

Here are this week’s news items for business and the economy, including the financial crisis in Greece and the Euro zone, banking reform, Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, and important economic data that will be reported this week. Read on for details, including charts and a video report:

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (C.A.R.D.) Act of 2009 is designed to protect new credit card users from unscrupulous practices. In protecting consumers, this act adds some key rules and regulations that protect consumers without encouraging unsound credit practices. See the full article at PhysicianEntrepreneur.com for details.

The popular Cash for Clunkers program ends Monday, August 24 2009 at 8 PM Eastern Daylight Time. The program is reportedly associated with over 450 thousand trade-ins of lower-mpg vehicles for new vehicles with significantly higher fuel efficiency. It looks like the program is about to exhaust the $3 billion that Congress allocated, so the administration had made this advance announcement to give shoppers a few more days to make their purchases. See the full article at PysicianEtrepreneur.com for details.

In our last article on Help a Reporter out (HARO) we talked about leveraging expertise to create a brand for yourself via expert requests.
This article focuses on leveraging the expertise of others to create an expert platform for yourself. Continued - click here >>

Help a Reporter Out, or HARO, is a phenomenon that sprung up from one entrepreneurs mailing list of contacts between reporters and experts, and has grown into a global phenomenon.
You can leverage HARO – as an expert fulfilling source needs, or as an expert looking for anecdotal or contrasting information. Continued - click here >>

Getting the media to pay attention to your business may be about the hardest thing you’ll ever undertake for advertising any business. It’s even harder to effectively promote your multiple businesses to the media, but here’s how you can do it:

Take these steps now to protect your personal, professional, and financial well-being from the changes that will take place over the coming weeks and months. No matter what you political leanings are, you need to take action to look after these interests.

Business credit bureaus provide reporting on the creditworthiness of business clients. It’s funny how businesses who extend credit to an individual will routinely run a credit check, but they will extend credit to a business without taking the same precaution. Here’s how you can run a credit check on a potential business client:

In this video, Larry Hicks from O’Sullivan Creel explains some of the depreciation tax breaks that you can take thanks to the 2009 stimulus package. See http://physicianentrepreneur.com/?p=666 for the full video and for more business and personal planning topics.