Quick Hot Tips

• Business Tip: Protect and defend your intellectual property. Research the difference between a copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent.

• Business Tip: Trust your gut. This phrase is often repeated but rarely understood. It means that your instincts are an extremely valuable decision-making tool.

• Business Tip: Know when and when not to be transparent to your employees. Transparency is as detrimental at some times as it is beneficial at others.