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What would happen to your business if you were to retire or pass away?

Whether business owners are too busy to think about this topic, or it’s just too unpleasant to discuss, could be why an often ignored element of business planning is business continuity.

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Should you appoint a foreign executor?

There is no law saying that you cannot appoint a foreign executor in your will but there are two good reasons that make it a bad idea in most cases.

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In almost all provinces and territories of Canada there are two ways you can file your own papers to apply for divorce: you and your spouse can file as joint applicants, or one spouse can file as a sole applicant...

Debt is different from expenses. Expenses are something you have to have, like food and clothing. Debt is something you want but don′t have the cash to pay for. You can control expenses and you can also control your debt load.

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Every new year, many of us begin thinking about our finances. But should we continue to make resolutions for better financial management—resolutions that often aren't kept—or should we consider revamping our budgets entirely, once and for all?

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Self-Counsel Press is a business and legal books publisher. We pioneered do-it-yourself law books in Canada and the USA in 1971.

If you want to write for us, please take a look at our website at self-counsel.com to see if your proposed book might fit one of the categories in which we publish, and to make sure we haven't already published the book you wish to propose. We do not publish fiction of any genre, nor do we publish adult books, books on mental health, psychology, religion, or the paranormal.

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• GNU/Linux
• Sun Solaris

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In order to purchase a downloadable product on this website you MUST create a basic user account.
Without a user account you will not be able to download the product you purchase!

Please note that larger kits employ an installer that will only work on a computer using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Please check the Product Specification before buying.

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Suppose you want to write a science fiction novel. Ideas are brewing along with the coffee. You sit down at your computer, typewriter, or notepad, and begin to write. It’s all going very well! You have twenty pages down so you decide to take a break and read. You choose a book from your bookshelf of unread science-fiction (SF) novels and descend into horror as you realize that you’re reading the exact same plot you just began to write.

If this sounds like you, don’t worry. This is a common phenomenon in any genre: rehashing a story that feels like it’s been done a hundred times. The thing to remember when writing is that although many stories may be similar within a genre, it is the author that makes each novel unique.

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 James Dion, author of Start & Run a Retail Business (now in its 3rd edition!), an internationally acknowledged expert on retail management, has posted some video clips on Youtube from talks and interviews he has given on the business of retail.

Note: your computer must be capable of playing video files and you need speakers or headphones to hear the soundtrack.

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