Finance
How to Get an Unsecured Business Loan
Getting small business finance isn’t easy. Very often you need to offer significant assets as security—and very often you don’t have significant assets to offer. As a result, you could find yourself turning to your…
5 Tricks to Pay Off Business Debt and Recover from Financial Disaster
Are you overly worried about your small business debt? Well, you’re not alone. Nearly 50% of small businesses collapse because of the following reasons: Lack of capital Heavy debt burden Poor credit arrangement In most…
6 Tax Tips for New Small Business Owners
Did you just start your own lawn service or construction company? Launching a business is one of the most exciting things you can do, but you must be prepared for a whole new set of…
What You Need to Know About Invoice Financing
Banks have been in business for a long time and they have only gotten more powerful as they continue to consolidate their hold on the nation’s wealth. Even after the 2008 financial crisis, Forbes reported that 5 major…
Sales Tax Non-Compliance: What’s Your Exposure?
An entrepreneur’s dream is to start her own business and witness it grow. First, she wants to see it grow locally. And then, she may see it grow statewide. Whether the company is a small…
Tax Deductions for New Small Business Owners
As a small business owner, you can take advantage of many tax breaks to reduce your tax bill and keep more of the income you earn. Many business tax deductions are often overlooked and are…
13 Reasons Commercial Accounting Software is Better Than Excel Spreadsheets
It’s a little ironic: Spreadsheets launched the personal computer business back in 1979 yet today spreadsheets can sink your small business…if you insist on using them for your accounting. VisiCalc was probably the first “killer…
Small Business Accounting: How Much Of It Do You Really Need?
Entrepreneurs usually know very little about small business accounting when they launch their startup or local business. They’ve had an idea or see a problem that needs to be solved and they “go for it.”…
Corporations: Changes for 2016
One of the most positive aspects of my job is to talk to people who come in with their start-up ideas. Whether those are tried & tested ideas or totally out of the box schemes,…
Elevator Speech Part 3: What You Offer
So you’re rounding the corner now on the elevator speech, which I say is something all business owners should be able to do. You’ve done the market story, which was part 1, and the why you,…