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It is hard to believe, but a quarter of the year is now history. Why are some businesses thriving and others not doing as well? 

The gap can be explained comparing and contrasting the best versus the rest.  

The best have strong business models. These organizations have clients and allies, not customers. They have ongoing revenue streams and strong relationships in the supply chain. 

The rest think, say and act “we hope customers do business with us.”

In the spirit of collaboration and partnership, several of Santa Clarita’s leading business organizations will host the SCV Leadership Awards on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Hyatt Regency Valencia from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

It’s the ‘triple trifecta,’ said Nick Frank of his family-run business.

Founder of Santa Clarita-based Nicholas Aire Systems, Frank has been in the air conditioning business for more than three decades and runs the business made up of himself, his wife, Donna, his son, Jeff, and a handful of employees from a business office at their family home.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit it but I have been known to catch an episode or two of “Desperate Housewives.” In one particular episode, Tom and Lynette Scavo (DH fans know who I’m talking about) open a family-owned pizza parlor. To cut expenses, Tom fires all his employees and hires his children as wait staff.

When you purchase a red velvet cupcake at Kupcake Kitchen, know that owner Lisa Jurado’s entire family was involved in making it for you.

In 2010, when the public relations specialist turned her baking hobby into a full storefront business on Bouquet Canyon Road, Jurado enlisted her then-unemployed husband and her parents, in-laws and children to help with the bakery.

There are a surprising number of entries when looking up the word “bridge” in the dictionary. Ultimately, there are many ways to say how a bridge serves its purpose of joining people, places or things that are not connected; in essence, overcoming a gap. In most cases there is a mutual benefit to forging this connection.

More Santa Clarita Valley companies could benefit from the Enterprise Zone tax credit program if they make themselves aware of it, or work with their CPAs to claim the credits, said Laura Biery, administrative analyst with the city of Santa Clarita’s Economic Development division.

Tax credits for hiring employees who qualify can offset the payroll costs for hiring employees, said Tim DiTomaso, keynote speaker and president of DiTomaso Incentive at Thursday’s Enterprise Zone lunch seminar.

To tweet or not to tweet. More importantly, whose tweet is it anyway? With strategic emphasis placed on social media presence for brand development and market positioning, companies are not only looking at the marketing aspect of how to make sites work for them, but now the legal aspects of ownership.

Document, document, document… These words are a common mantra for employment attorneys and human resources professionals alike. “If it isn’t in writing, it didn’t happen.” While documentation is essential to providing a solid defense in the event of employment-related claims, the documentation format and choice of wording are equally vital.

In other words, your documentation of the employment relationship can be the difference between winning and losing an employment lawsuit.

Starting up a restaurant is considered a riskier venture than most, and with good reason. Eating and drinking places have the highest failure rate of any retail business in the industry, with more than twice as many failures as furniture stores, car dealerships and apparel stores, a 2005 study by Cornell University found.

The true failure rate has been tough to determine, but the accepted statistic by the National Restaurant Association is that 30 percent of all restaurants fail within the first year of opening.

It’s becoming less common for lawyers to do it all, as the law business becomes more and more specialized each year.

Stephen C. Yeazell, a law professor at UCLA, said decades ago the legal field was mostly comprised of general sole practitioners. The legal specialization trend started about 20 to 30 years ago and he sees no reason for the trend to reverse anytime soon, as laws become more and more complex for each area and law schools continue to allow you to specialize your law school education through electives and extracurriculars.