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Small businesses survive on the good credit of their owners and partners. Often you first financing is reliant on the personal credit of the owner or partner. Learn how to fix any blemishes before you start your new venture Read More

The about us page on a website serves as the great purpose of informing our visitors what our business does and what we can help them with. However, it is not the coolest kid in school and truly how many of your website visitors actually make it there? Probably not too many, since the home page seems to be the place to give a little snidbit about the business and the about us page is just a place to go for more detail. Let’s reinvent this page to make it popular and make it a place our visitors will want to check out on a day-to-day basis.
Here is what you can do to make the about us page cool for your viewer Read More

If you are in the market for business financing you may have noticed that the SBA is tentatively reporting a healthy increase in small business lending.

However, finding the right bank for your small business financing needs can still be a time-consuming challenge.

So just who is lending? And what is your best strategy for finding and approaching a bank? Here are five tips to help you find small business friendly banks Read More

I just read a rather depressing piece of information: for the first half of 2010 the rate of new business start-ups was the lowest it's been in 24 years. According to a blog post for the Wall Street Journal "the 3.4% first-quarter start-up rate and the 3.9% in the second quarter mark the lowest first-half since (executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas) started recording data in 1986." The reason for such a dramatic decrease from last year is less than obvious Read More

This is a follow-up article to on written by the author last week - 4 Tips to Get the Most from your Tax Planning. The focus of this addition is to embrace any complexity that will legitimately add value to your business through tax savings Read More

A study insists use of small business credit cards was helpful in increased revenue and job creation between 2003 and 2008. But since the study was completed just before the worst part of the recession hit, we are left to wonder about the real impact of so much credit. After all, other sources insist that unpayable loans and low customer spending led many businesses to close. I wonder if any of them had run up big bills on their small business credit cards. Read More

It happens way to often - your tax CPA tells you that you should have talked to them sooner and you could have saved taxes. Here are 4 tips reduce your taxes through tax planning Read More

Good review of new 1099 reporting requirements for businesses. This is likely to add a lot of cost and time to the annual 1099 reporting process Read More

This is great information for someone who is trying to get their arms, initially, around the value of their business. Good advice Read More

The idea of going into business with a spouse can sound perfect, after all what can be better than working with your partner in life. But it can be tricky business, we've seen many couples try to be business partners only to find their finances and their relationship can't survive the shift. So to help couples navigate through a husband and wife venture, we have put together some tips to making a spousal business work Read More