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Forensic accounting has become more prevalent since the United States started tracking terrorists through the money trail! Who would of thought that forensic accounting is one of the ten hottest jobs for the next decade? I don’t know about you but I have taken accounting classes and I salute those who can keep up with all the changes in accounting.

Forensic accounting utilizes accounting, auditing and investigative skills to help in legal matters. This area of accounting is comprised of three main areas: litigation support, investigation and dispute resolution. Litigation support is the factual presentation of economic issues relating to existing and pending litigation. The forensic accounting professional quantifies damages sustained by parties involved in legal disputes even before the y reach the courtroom. In the investigation phase the forensic accountant may search for hidden assets in a divorce case.

Small business owners are the backbone of our economy and I’ve had the pleasure of working with Environmental Tree Care LLC, located here in Denver, Colorado. Ken Zuber is the owner and this Denver firm specializes in tree trimming, tree pruning, tree removal and stump grinding.

This Denver tree service is busy-and does both residential and commercial tree projects. It’s great to see that this family tree business is busy and leads me to believe that the economy may be getting closer to recovering. Check out their Denver Tree Service profile at LinkedIn!

More small business owners continue their migration from the yellow pages to the Internet. Denver attorneys have been a mainstay in the yellow pages but we are seeing more attorneys in Denver claim their stake on the Internet. One such company is Frankfurt-Trani. They are Denver criminal defense attorneys located in Denver, Colorado.

Denver has a very competitive market for attorneys and specifically for criminal defense attorneys. While not all attorneys are completely leaving traditional forms of advertising-the trend is clearly toward having a significant presence on the Internet and the categories that will most benefit them..

When the financial sector took a dive this fall many personal financial sites thought they were in for rotten times-just the opposite has happened. Burned by their banks and the stock market, more people are seeking budgeting help, saving and investing ideas online.

They are turning to sites like Mint, SmartyPig, Cake Financial, Wesabe and Credit Karma. Personally, I don’t care what consumers do to educate themselves-just do something! We have definitely become some major whiners when it comes to being financial savvy and I for one am sick of hearing the whiners. Here’s a big shout out to the new sites!

Companies in Denver, Colorado are finding a true resource when they need team building and training. Brenda Staab, founder of Mountain Peak team building and sales training is a professional speaker and licensed PEP ™ trainer.

One of Mountain Peaks most popular workshops is sales training. In this comprehensive training workshop; a sales force is taught how to speak the customers’ language. This powerful sales training allows a sales force to learn and implement these powerful tools. The results are happier customers and improved performance.

Brenda’s Team Building Events Cover:

• Increased productivity
• Higher morale
• Improved performance
• Decreased turnover
• Less stress
• Better hiring decisions
• Enhanced creativity and long-term growth

and more.

Whether your needs are team building or sales training the results will be dramatically improved by using the PEP ™ methodology. This personality profile is incorporated in all workshops and retreats. This transformational tool allows individuals to capitalize on their strengths. It also identifies any challenging areas. Armed with this knowledge, individuals can bring their strengths to sales teams and corporations.

I just finished reading Riches in Niches by Susan Friedman. The sub title is How to Make it Big in a Small Market. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book on Niches and highly recommend it. I’ve been an entrepreneur for thirty years and have met countless others. We have this tendency to try to be all things to all people-and fail miserably. The key is to mine all the riches available to you in niches!

Susan does a great job in honestly and thoroughly covering what it takes to be successful as a Nichepreneur! The word Nichepreneur is a word coined  by Susan and I believe she really hits the mark by encouraging entrepreneurs to focus on specific niches. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many successful Nichepreneurs and their singular focus always amazes me. Susan gives many examples of individuals who have focused on specific niches and the strategies they employ. Don’t be afraid to focus on your passion and expertise-Susan has provided you a road map in this book Riches In Niches!

I would recommend two things to all you entrepreneurs out there: buy a copy of Susan’s book. Read her book and really study the strategies. The second thing I would do is to watch The Big Idea every night with Donny Deutsch. The Big Idea and Donny Deutsch will affirm to you that there is plenty of money to be found by following your passion and mining the Riches in Niches!

I met Steve Shapiro, the business innovation speaker, last month when I was speaking at the Boston Chapter of NSA. As fate would have it Steve Spoke at our chapter here in Denver, Colorado on Friday. His presentation was great and the audience loved it! Steve normally speaks on Innovation and how to keep your business ahead of the curve. He did share some of those ideas with us but his main focus on Friday was: The costly mistakes he had made in his speaking career-and how we could avoid them!

One of my favorite take a ways was-Fail Cheaply! Steve encouraged all of us to test our brilliant ideas a little piece at a time before committing all of your time and dollars into a great idea that only you love Steve held the audience captive with his solid suggestions and great case studies.

After our program he held a bonus session on his infamous Personality Poker. What a great tool for discovering your innovation personality! It was great to see how we perceive ourselves and how other perceive us as well. Thanks for sharing this with us Steve.

Our program was a complete success and I highly recommend you bring in Steve Shapiro to speak to your assocaition or company on innovation.

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It was good to see Thomas Hoenig, President of the Federal reserve Bank of Kansas City, in our state of Colorado. He went on a folksy tour of small businesses and ended up at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Durango on Tuesday.
Rocky Mountain Chocolates makes great candy and Bryan Merryman, the CFO of the company told Hoenig:

“Commodities across the board have pressured us”. “There are a lot of pressures in our system that we haven’t seen before”.

It’s reassuring to see that the feds have recently discovered that they need to start raising interest rates. I hope Hoenig went to the grocery store and gas station with Merryman just to confirm his suspicions

Good News-for all of you who have been wondering about the Yellowstone Club, the Playground Spat Is Resolved according to the Wall Street Journal. Edra Blixseth, who started the club with her husband, Tim, was granted ownership of the club in the couples divorce decree !!
Membership at Yellowstone costs an initial $250,000 was $18,000 in annual dues and millions of dollars to buy or build a home there.

Members such as Bill Gates and Dan (potatoe) Quayle can now rest easier this evening
Edra, email me if you need me to see if the club is now up to your standards!