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Step-by-Step Guide to Legally Setting up a New Business

Starting a new business can feel like trying to learn a new language while juggling. It’s exciting—but also full of legal, financial, and regulatory steps that most first-time…

Protecting Your Business From Hackers

In a time when technology dominates every sector, cybersecurity has become a serious concern for businesses of all types and all sizes. No matter what kind of business…

How to Build Business Credit

Whether you’re launching a startup or already managing a small business, understanding how to build business credit is a crucial aspect of your company's financial health. A robust…

The Benefits of Diversifying Your Business's Revenue Streams

Diversifying your business's revenue streams is essential for the long-term success and sustainability of any organization. Having multiple streams of income means that if one source dries up,…

Start Planning Now For a Brighter Financial Future in 2023

Now that 2023 is right around the corner, it’s a good time to look ahead at planning for a brighter financial future. You can review your financial moves…

Strategies to Transition to Work From Home

Working from home offers tremendous benefits. If you’re a person who has longed to work from home, it may be possible to make this scenario a reality. Before…

Strategies To Keep Track Of Business Expenses

As a business owner, you know it's important to not only bring in revenue, but also limit your company's expenses. Yet, since there are so many expenses associated…

Strategies to Make it Through a Business Cash Flow Crisis

If there is one thing you as a business owner don't want to deal with, it is a cash flow crisis. Occurring when your business has more money…

Organize Your Business For Year End Planning Success

In what feels like the blink of an eye, we are now at the end of 2021. As a business owner, that means you've got plenty of work…

PPP Loan and Your Tax Obligations

If like many business owners across the U.S. you relied on a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program to keep your business afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, you…

How to Launch an Online Business Without Dipping Into Your Savings

Many ambitious entrepreneurs launch an online business using their own funds. They use personal savings or max out credit cards. Tactics like these are even lauded. You can…

Tools to Help You Brainstorm Your Next Business Idea

Brainstorming is a fun and effective way to stimulate the creative side of your brain. If you want to leverage the post-pandemic surge in business, you may be…

How to Develop a Brand Strategy For Your Small Business

As a business owner, you have put in many long hours making sure your business is successful. But if you want to keep it growing in the years…

Do you Really Need an Office?

For some businesses, the COVID-19 pandemic changed things overnight. Employees went home with their laptops and some haven’t returned to the office in over a year. What people…

7 Smart Strategies For Using Your Next Stimulus Check

If things work out the way they are planned, you may be receiving a second stimulus check in the coming weeks. Nothing is yet guaranteed, but there are certainly…

Social Media Marketing during COVID

Have your sales dived during COVID? You wouldn’t be alone - many small businesses have struggled with the abrupt shift in our economy. Despite government programs designed to help, it’s…

Cash Management Strategies For Small Businesses

For many small businesses, operating under ordinary conditions is hard enough when it comes to maintaining cash flow, especially for small businesses.  However, when you toss in a…

Why your Small Business Needs Formal Policies

When they first launch their business, few small business owners think about putting together and documenting policies. They focus on marketing and reaching new clients, the services they’ll…

Biggest Challenges Faced by Small Businessess

Every small business is different, even in the same industry. Services, products, and clients all bring with them unique challenges. But most problems small business owners face fall…

Review Platforms and Business Reputation

Reputation is everything - particularly for a small business owner. Referrals bring you new business, and word-of-mouth can establish you as a trustworthy partner in your community. In…

The Seven Types of Insurance Policies a Small Business Owner Needs

In the process of taking stock of your business at the start of 2020, did you decide to look at your insurance policies? Before you review those thick stacks of…

Fixed Assets, What you Need to Know

Does your 2020 business plan include purchasing fixed assets? Maybe you’re expanding your bakery and will need to buy a new commercial fridge and oven. Or, perhaps you…

How To Write a Small Business Plan

If you ever want to apply for a small business loan, the lenders will want to see your business plan. Your business plan gives lenders a concise snapshot…

Should you Offer a Discount?

Discounts have become a way of life in the American marketplace. You can’t drive down the street without seeing a sign in a retailer’s window blaring, “50% off!”…

Step-by-Step Guide to Forming a Non-Profit

A non-profit organization can have several definitions depending on the perspective of the people discussing the matter and the context of the discussion. To the layman, the term…