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[C1106]Cost Of Small Business Insurance

by Edward M. Brancheau, Edw

What varieties of insurance coverage do you need? Well that depends on several different factors. First, there is the size of your small business and how it's organized. Is it a one man sole proprietorship or a 50-employee corporation. Next, you have to take into account how you pay yourself and your employees. Do you pay a salary? Commissions? Then you need to think about your small business? location, your exposure to liability or law suits and whether your small business sells products or services.

Things that you should consider:

Should you die prematurely, do you have enough life insurance to protect your family? Why is this so important? Well, if you have a small service oriented business, it will be worth $0 when you die. For example, the spouse of a deceased doctor or lawyer can only sell the tools of the trade, not the clients (the true bread and butter of any small service business). Get a crystal ball and see into the future to know when you are going to die then you could sell your small business before you kick the bucket. Otherwise, all small service business owners should protect their families with a minimum coverage of 7X gross income.

Do you have a small business that your are setting up to have a family member run after you pass away? Well, be sure that they are capable, willing and licensed to do so.

Do you have disability insurance, in case you're incapable of running your enterprise because of illness or injury? For a stipulated period of time, you will be paid approximately 60% of your income when you have disability insurance. On top of that, your disability benefits could be non-taxable or taxable depending on whether you claimed the premium as a business expense.

More important...do you have "business overhead insurance"? Of course, even when you are out of commission, your small business still wants to cover expenses like salaries, insurance and utilities. Who will cover those costs? Disability Insurance will not cover your small business overhead expenses, unless it is an add-on.

Got business partners? Do you have a buy/sell agreement? Well, if you or your partner should suddenly die, your interest in the business will be protected. Here's a great example of this: your partner dies and his wife wants to claim her share of the business. Is it in you best interest to have your deceased partner's family involved in the business? They may not know anything about how to run the business and cause huge headaches. Wouldn't you simply rather buy out your partner's share of the company? Well, with this additional insurance, you wouldn't have to worry about your partner's family interfering with your small business.

What about "disability buy-out coverage"? Do you have it? If your partner was to become severly disabled, you would be presented with several problems without this particular type of insurance. How would you feel if you had to keep on paying your partner for years to come when they cannot do any work because of their disability? After a period of time, this type of coverage would force your disabled partner to sell you his share of the business, based on a previously signed equitable agreement.

Of course, it's entirely possible that none of these problems may ever come up but it's your small business after all. Decide which varieties of coverage you deem most important...then speak to a professional who can give you the varieties of coverage you need to protect your enterprise.

In the present scenario, millions of pre-existing websites are being further populated by newer additions on daily basis, as the majority of business concerns are going online in order to exploit wider markets across national frontiers. As a domino effect, the advertising and marketing of websites have gone extremely competitive and expensive. Under the circumstances, it seems only a financially resourceful websites can survive. But it is not entirely true.

With advent of Article Marketing, small business concerns have renewed hope of survival and success. Article marketing is a cost-effective and logical web-marketing stunt being extensively employed by seasoned SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) or web marketers, to enhance Internet visibility of a website.

Article Marketing basically involves a website submitting informative and coherent articles to other websites. The topics of the articles are carefully chosen to stick to the basic business of the website. The articles contain a resource box with a short bio of the website and a link to the website. As articles are submitted to hundreds or even thousands of forums, blogs and e-magazines, which have their own faithful following of hundreds and thousands of readers per se, these articles result into high quantity of quality inbound links for the website from outside, without having to buy, beg or reciprocate links.

As a rule, these inbound links from other web addresses act as ?votes? of confidence for the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The number of these votes of confidence determines the ranking of the website address in SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Pages). And of course, higher the ranking of the website, the better Internet visibility for the website, which in turn translates into better business prospects and optimized turnover.

With an easy opportunity to showcase expertise and wisdom, the articles present themselves as means of confidence building measures to a prospective customer, who is thus reinforced about the quality of the products and services of the website in no uncertain terms. The articles pre-sell the products and services of the website and offers seven to ten times better advertising than regular advertising. The articles allow effective filtration of the net traffic to render highly qualified traffic mostly. After reading a coherent and informative article on a product or service, a first time visitor to the website visits it with a positive outlook and is easily convinced about the authenticity of the offerings of the website.

What's more, Article Marketing is incredibly economical in nature and has the least toll on the marketing budget of any website. To undertake article marketing, all the site needs to do is to write informative, easy to understand and articulate articles on subjects relevant to the business of the website and submit these articles to maximum of web based forums, blogs and ezines. These websites are always seeking informative articles free of cost. They do not charge anything while accepting an article. However, some of them may charge a nominal amount to further the articles to other forums / blogs / e-magazines.

With Article marketing, a website may relieve itself from other marketing stunts involving cold calls or face-to-face sales appointments to sell their products and services. A small-scale business website may feel rescued from the need to buy links or beg for links, which also involves spending valuable effort, time and money. Unlike direct marketing and paid advertisements, a well written article may continue to be republished on various newsletters, websites, forums, blogs and trigger a viral marketing effect, to last for a longer span of time.

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