12 golden rules for small business

November 8, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “When you go from consumer to running your own small business, you are now in the big leagues of legal and financial responsibility,” observes Bryan Hull, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Hull shared with You and...

Credit-card swiping scam

November 1, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver If your business uses a credit card reader — also called a credit card swiping machine — today’s story will prevent you from becoming one more victim in an on-going nationwide rip-off of small businesses across the...

Fancy Attending a home flipping seminar?

October 25, 2014   •  By Dennis Beaver “I have received an invitation to attend a free real estate seminar put on by a company that flips homes but have never had any experience in buying or selling real estate. The TV show makes it look pretty easy to buy a house and...

Recent law grads a challenge for clients

October 11, 2014   •  By Dennis Beaver “A friend’s daughter passed the Bar Exam on her first try in February. She recently opened an office and I hired her to handle a $50,000 collections case for my company,” “Todd” wrote. “Doesn’t passing the Bar Exam mean that you...

Bamboo bathroom tissue earns a bum rap

September 27, 2014   •  By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, you are probably going to think this is a joke,” began a phone call from a Central California reader, “but believe me, it is not. We were in an Albertson’s market in the Los Angeles area and saw a new kind of...