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Useful answers for the decisions owners make every week.
Clear guidance on the financial, payroll, and people questions that tend to become urgent when no one explains them early.
Community · 2 min read ·
Tax Strategies for Charitable Donations
Whether your business is making 7 figures and you’d like to create a legacy for your brand or you’re a small business owner simply looking to give back in your community, charitable donations can be a great way to use…
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Business · 3 min read ·
Do You Qualify for a Home Office Deduction?
The home office deduction is one of the most sought-after (and confusing) tax deductions for small business owners. While it is often misunderstood and misused, the rules surrounding this coveted tax benefit are fairl…
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Business · 3 min read ·
Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Your Business
Becoming an entrepreneur can be a lot of things at once: exciting, scary, confusing, fulfilling, stressful… With so many different things to do to get your operation up and running, knowing where to start can help you…
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Business · 3 min read ·
How to Lower Your Self-Employment Taxes
While being an entrepreneur allows for great freedom in your work schedule, location, and creative vision, paying self-employment taxes can be daunting. Because you are essentially paying the taxes required from the e…
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Business · 2 min read ·
How to Close Your Business (The Right Way!)
There are many potential reasons for deciding to step away from your business. Whether you are selling it to a new owner, dissolving it due to lack of profit, or simply closing up shop in order to retire, the end of y…
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Business · 3 min read ·
What to Know If You’re Running a Home-Based Business
Working from home can be an incredibly fulfilling experience. Whether you’re making the most out of your startup budget by saving the expense of renting a separate office space, taking care of your children during the…
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Bookkeeping · 2 min read ·
Why You Should Hire a Bookkeeper
When you’re passionate about your business, it can often seem like handling finances is getting in the way of the big, exciting goals you have for your company. Spending time on payroll, accounts payable and receivabl…
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Business · 3 min read ·
Which Payment Methods Should You Accept
Whether you’re selling a service, digital product, or physical goods, chances are that you need to process payments nearly every day. There are so many different methods of accepting payments both on and offline that…
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Community · 3 min read ·
What to Look for in Backup Software
If you’ve ever accidentally deleted a file, spilled coffee on your laptop’s keyboard, or experienced a hard drive failure, you know how important it is to have your data backed up in multiple locations both on and off…
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Taxes · 2 min read ·
Tax Tips for Maximizing Your Social Security Benefits
Whether you’ve just surpassed the age restriction, recently retired, or are collecting due to disability, making sense of your Social Security benefits can be daunting. The first step to making the most of your benefi…
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Business · 3 min read ·
How to Determine the Right Internet Package for Your Business– Part Two
In part one of “How to Determine the Right Internet Package for Your Business,” we covered the basics of internet speed, the two most important factors in determining how fast your web connection should be, and gave e…
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Business · 3 min read ·
How to Determine the Right Internet Package for Your Business – Part One
Nearly every business in operation today pays for internet as part of their basic overhead costs. Essential for intra-business communication, reaching potential new clients, and providing customer service, internet is…
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