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Previous Issues of Howe’s Bayou

  • Seasonal Compensation

    by

    Brad Howe

    Does seasonal compensation relate to annual compensation in your company? Does Santa Claus come to your company party distributing gift certificates as a substitute for well-determined incentives? Are employee expectations thus fulfilled, or does this just whet everyone’s appetite for something other than dinner?

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  • Borrowing Basics

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    Brad Howe

    At a time when most bankers say that they have plenty of money to lend, plenty of small businesses seem to be stuck in the mud or even shut out of the borrowing business. It’s time to review borrowing basics.

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  • How Much Do You Need?

    by

    Brad Howe

    In her unending effort to catalogue the best retail resources in New England, my wife Anne several years ago chanced upon an unobtrusive store in mid-coastal Maine, about five miles north of Moody’s Diner (itself well-known to value-seeking eaters). Alongside Route 1, just beyond The Well-Tempered Kitchen, behind a relic of a cash register in…

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  • Show Time

    by

    Brad Howe

    Radon test. Check. Utility bills. Check. Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Check. On went the list, like seven-card stud — condo docs, insurance coverage, chimney inspection — check, check, and check. We were all over it. Each time they raised the bet, we covered. The result? There were no contingencies last month when the high…

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