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A “Certificate of Good Standing” indicates that your business has filed all reports and paid all the necessary taxes and fees with your state’s secretary of state office. Incorporate.com says to think of your good standing certificate “as a kind of ‘snapshot’ of your business’s compliance status.” Read More

Firing an employee is one of the difficult tasks a small business owner will eventually have to deal with.

Not only does a termination affect the employee’s career, self-esteem, and livelihood, losing an employee also affects other workers, their assignments, and the overall morale of your team. Read More

Let’s take the banks out of it—which Visa business credit cards top the list?

Whether you’re looking for travel perks, excellent rewards on everyday office purchases, 0% intro APR, or a way to build credit, Visa’s got you covered.

We’re breaking down the many benefits Visa offers and reviewin Read More

As a small business bookkeeper, I can’t think of an industry that would need to install QuickBooks Desktop anymore. In 2017, unless your small business resides in a part of the world without internet access, regardless of your niche, QuickBooks Online is the solution to go with out of the two choic Read More

When you are manually entering payroll in QuickBooks, it is much easier to manipulate the entries to achieve the right outcome and presentation on the financial statements because the entries are like any other check, which can be edited. (The template in my video can be found here.)

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Let’s walk through the trajectory of getting your first credit card, and what to do to set yourself up for success down the line—so graduating to better, lower-rate credit cards and more diverse products is a possibility in the future.

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Starting a small business can give even fearless entrepreneurs the creeps. There seem to be endless questions to lose sleep over: What if I let everyone down? How am I going to pay for all this? What if customers just never show up?

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We’ve all got our own bad habits—things like hitting the snooze alarm instead of waking up for that early-morning workout, procrastinating on projects, or drinking way too much coffee. But while those habits only affect ourselves, many entrepreneurs have bad business habits that make their customer Read More

If you’re like most taxpayers, you always end up with an ominous stack of “homework” around tax time.

Unfortunately, the job of pulling together the records for your tax appointment is never easy—or even fun—but the effort usually pays off when it comes to the extra tax money you save from being Read More

Choosing your small business’s name is an important moment for any entrepreneur. Your business’s name defines you and your brand—and it will stick with you for a while.

Just as your business’s name is your identity among your customers, your community, and your market, your business domain name Read More