Archive for March, 2010

Corporate Status: On Notice

Businesses and their lawyers across North Carolina are buzzing over reports being sent by the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office to corporations and limited liability companies who are late filing annual reports.

 

Are You Mistaking Access for Acceptance?

Do you go to networking events to harvest email addresses for your newsletter? You might want to re-think that strategy. Read why social media guru Chris Brogan thinks this is a poor way to market yourself.

 

Health Care Reform: Boost or Burden?

President Obama signed what is informally known as the “Health Care Reform Bill” on March 23, 2010, and it is expected that certain changes in a related Reconciliation Bill will be enacted later this week. This long-debated and highly contentious reform legislation is estimated to cost $938 billion and reduce the number of uninsured inviduals [...]

 

Why Registering Your Company Name with the Secretary of State is not Enough

I got a panicked call the other day from a new client &endash; another company was using her company’s name and neither the North Carolina Secretary of State nor the state Attorney General would help her.

 

Two Cool Things Happening in Durham, NC

First, you can participate in the effort to bring Google Fiber to Durham today at 11 a.m. Google is looking for a test community where it can launch its ultra-high-speed broadband network. Durham wants to be that community.

 

Corporate Annual Minutes alert

The North Carolina Secretary of State’s web site has posted an alert about a company called “Compliance Services” that is mailing official-looking notices to North Carolina corporations offering to prepare their annual minutes for a $125 fee.