Archive for the 'Small Business' Category

Is the Prepaid Legal Membership Really a Ripoff?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Carl Coffin asked: Is the Prepaid Legal membership really a ripoff?Pre-paid legal services, inc. is the most widely known company that offers legal expense plans. There are other company’s but Pre-paid legal services is the oldest. They have been in business since the early 70’s.I was sold a prepaid legal membership two years ago by [...]

What are the legal procedures to start an online business for advertising?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

AC/DC asked: I am starting a online business that offers many free stuff for users, and later some people will want to pay by PayPal to advertise on my website. I would like to ask you what are the legal procedures to let people advertise and pay a certain amount of money to me every [...]

Is it legal to use your own home kitchen for your business?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Miss Liz asked: I want to start a baking business, I was wondering if it’s legal to use your own home kitchen as your workspace? I’ve been told that it isn’t, and im pretty sure it isn’t legal to use your own kitchen for liability issues. Howevr, im just not sure. Does anyone know the [...]

Is it legal to reduce an employees hours for not completing their work?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

jacoleary asked: I have created chore lists at work and informed the employees, if they do not complete a task, they will be written up and after 3 write ups, it will result in their hours being cut the following week. Is this legal?
I have issued some basic cleaning tasks to all employees including myself [...]

is it legal to copy yellow page datas and add to a local business directory?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

kahala asked: I have an online local (small city) business directory and rather to ask business owners to add their list, I want to copy and add list from yellow pages to my business directory, is this legal or not? Shoul’d I advertising so that business owners add their list, will this be more legal? [...]