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    GoSmallBiz Toolbox

    Biewer & Associates Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.

    Coverage Summary:

    • Employee File Cabinet
    • HR Document Builder
    • Business Plan Development Tool
    • Distance Learning Center
    • Enhanced Website Builder
    • ManageMyMinutes

    Who's included in the plan:

    • The covered business entity

    Coverage Details:

    Employee File Cabinet

    The Employee File Cabinet application moves even small companies toward a paperless human resources department. As a member you can organize and manage all your employee information with this user-friendly desktop application designed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses. Rather than sift through huge piles of papers and folders and complex spreadsheets, store all of your employee data electronically in one central hub.

    Key Features

    The Employee File Cabinet's tabbed design allows for easy navigation across employee profiles and multiple areas of employee and company data. Schedule and build thorough employee performance and disciplinary reviews with our easy-to-use scoring system, which provides draft language for reviews based on the scores you assign. Create multiple logins with varying degrees of security clearance and read or write access to protect private employee information. Finally, get automated reminders for employee reviews, appointments and training sessions, as well as the ability to attach any relevant documentation for easy retrieval.

    Track all of the following information for up to 99 employees:

     

    • Personal information, including name, address, social security number, date of birth and home, work, fax and cell phone numbers
    • Family and emergency contacts
    • Hire notes
    • Location, department and job position descriptions
    • W-4 status and additional government and tax-related data
    • EEO status
    • Time sheets and attendance
    • Salary, location and benefits history
    • Incentives and commissions
    • Vacation and sick-time accrual
    • Education, training and certifications
    • Organization charts

    HR Document Builder

    With its intuitive web-based design, the GoSmallBiz HR Document Builder serves as the perfect assistant to your human resource department. As a member, you can create a range of vital HR documents, including personnel policies, job descriptions, interview worksheets, handbooks and more, using our comprehensive set of templates and dynamic online forms. Don't start from scratch. Let our experienced writers give you words that work.

    Using the HR Document Builder, you can create, edit and store hundreds of documents and templates for your small business, including:

    • Office policies, such as time-off, sexual harassment and dress code
    • Employee handbooks
    • Job descriptions
    • Phone interview forms
    • Face-to-face interview forms
    • Job candidate evaluation forms
    • Job offer/rejection letters
    • Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
    • Inter-office correspondence

    From the HR Document Builder home page, you can access:

    • Free downloads of required federal and state posters.
    • Important tax and legal forms.
    • Informational content covering a range of human resource topics.
    • Links to all the laws governing labor in your state.

    Business Plan Development Tool

    Every entrepreneur needs a good business plan to successfully launch or grow a business. Don't spend thousands of dollars on advice from outside consultants. With our Business Plan Development Tool, you can build a cost-effective, professional business plan in just a matter of hours! Our wizard-style design guides you step-by-step through the creation of a plan that will expertly communicate the profit-making potential of your business. And since you will be working with a web application, there is no software to download or maintain.

    And why start from scratch? Our experts have created templates that target the most common types of business, including retail, manufacturing, technology and non-profit. Once you copy the template, you can revise and edit the language with our robust text editor. This tool will get you past the writer's block!

    Key Features

    • No need to build complex spreadsheets. Calculate comprehensive financial statements in minutes simply by plugging in a few key statistics.
    • Generate colorful charts and graphs, and place them in your plan narrative wherever you choose.
    • Populate your plan narrative with your company name and information with just the click of a button.
    • Create plan narrative templates for future use.
    • Store your plan on our secure server until you're ready to export to a Word document or PDF.
    • Publish your plan securely online and invite your lawyer, accountant or other key advisors to access your plan and provide commentary in each section.
    • Work at your own pace - and in the order you choose.

    Distance Learning Center

    Reach beyond the surface and get the whole story on important issues that affect you as a small business owner - delivered in a timely and convenient fashion, as a series of 1-4 hour video lectures. We're the only educational Web site that provides you a complete regimen of the most relevant instructional content affecting small businesses. Watching each lecture is the equivalent of spending hours reading a text book or taking a college course.

    Our Experts:

    Our experts - top rated professors and successful entrepreneurs - share the full array of their unique experiences in business development and management so that you can learn to maximize the profit-making potential of your existing operation or new business idea.

    Our Lectures:

    With your Membership, you'll get 24-7 access to our growing library of content, which has been divided into a series of 1-4 hour lectures. To further enhance your learning experience, each video lecture is accompanied by a set of slides highlighting the central themes discussed. And for maximum convenience, we've provided an estimated completion time for every lecture.

    Explore lectures in the following categories:

    • Business Law
    • Business Plans
    • Finance
    • Human Resources
    • Insurance
    • Book Keeping
    • Management
    • Personal Topics
    • Sales
    • Tax
    • Technology
    • Marketing
    • Organizational Structure

    Each lecture is followed by a short but comprehensive quiz to test your knowledge. Complete the required number of courses and pass each accompanying quiz, and you'll earn a GoSmallBiz certificate and your designation as a GoSmallBiz "Small Business Professional."

    Enhanced Website Builder

    Need more for your business than the standard four-page website that comes with a GoSmallBiz membership? Easily create and maintain a customized site for your business that includes everything from detailed product descriptions to quotes from satisfied customers. You'll have up to 10 customizable web pages to properly promote your business online.

    Additional Benefits:

    • Get Comprehensive traffic statistics, including daily visitors, visit duration and referral sites.
    • Optimize for High Search Engine Ranking with keyword and META tag entry.
    • Use your own domain name for effective branding.
    • Create up to 10 Email accounts.
    • Get 20 MB of storage - four times the four-page site.

    ManageMyMinutes

    Any other personal legal services not otherwise covered by the membership are available at a 25% discount from the Provider Law Firm's standard hourly rate. For business legal services, the availability is at a 25% discount from the Provider Law Firm's corporate hourly rate.

    ManageMyMinutes is a web based tool that gives your business the ability to automatically create, organize and maintain its corporate record books, and send automated reminders whenever it's time to update records. ManageMyMinutes emphasizes ease and convenience - every step of the way.

    Our fully automated solution will help your small business:

    • Become and stay compliant, thereby reducing risk.
    • Maintain and organize an accurate record book.
    • Create, print and archive required records and documents.
    • Schedule activities and required meetings, and automate reminders.
    • Access customizable contracts and agreements.
    • And, most importantly, save time and money.

    Investment:

    $60/Month plus the purchase of a Business Plan or Legal Plan for the Self Employed

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    Contact Biewer & Associates
    Independent Associates - Pre-Paid Legal, Inc.
    Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialists TM

    Phone: 920.924.9928
    Fax: 888.539.5962
    Email: biewer@biewerassociates.com

    Or contact us by mail:

    Biewer & Associates
    N5211 County Rd. Y
    Oakfield, WI 53065