You’re driving down the highway, truck full and a long list of addresses needing to be hit before the sun goes down. After a long day, you decide to pull down an unfamiliar street to quench your thirst. Hours later, you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere, unable to contact your boss and almost out […]
Service Business
Here’s What Your Service Business Needs to Succeed
The 21st century is the century of start-ups. Everyone is building their own business. If you are one of them and think that you are good at a particular skill and use that to solve people’s real-life problems, you can build your own business. There are a lot of service-based businesses that have made considerable […]
How to Determine Taxability of Services
If you followed our recent series about multi-state tax facts for various types of technology companies, you likely noticed a common theme: it’s important to determine which states a business has created in so that they know which sales and use tax laws to follow. Although it can be tricky, the good news is there […]
Small Biz Interviews: The Madonna Inn
The Madonna Inn is the stuff of California legend. Founded in 1958 by Alex and Phyllis Madonna, the hotel, located just outside of San Luis Obispo near the iconic Highway 1, has long been a bastion of a kind of boundless whimsy that transcends the parameters of traditional taste. From the start, Alex was in […]
Pricing Strategy Guide: Service Businesses
Developing a pricing strategy may not be a science, but sometimes it can feel about as difficult as performing brain surgery or engineering rocket ships! Service businesses are at particularly high risk of pricing confusion. It’s much trickier to put a dollar value on things like time and expertise than to determine the cost of producing […]
