Tag: small business
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Tax Prep Made Simple for Businesses With 0–5 Employees
If you run a business with just a handful of people, or maybe it’s just you, tax season can feel like standing at the bottom of a mountain with no map. The forms, the receipts, the deadlines… it all piles up fast. And unlike big companies, you don’t have an accounting department smoothing the path.…
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Bookkeeping Basics for Companies With 0–5 Employees: What Really Matters
When you’re running a business with just a handful of people (or maybe it’s just you), bookkeeping often feels like one of those “I’ll get to it later” tasks. But here’s the secret: bookkeeping isn’t about complicated spreadsheets or hiring an accountant on day one. It’s about building a simple, repeatable system that helps you…
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The Receipt Problem: How Businesses With 0–5 Employees Can Stay Organized Without Drowning in Paper
If you run a business with fewer than five employees, you already know the feeling: you’ve got receipts everywhere. In your wallet. In your car’s cupholder. In a shoebox under your desk. Some of them even fade before you get a chance to record them. And every tax season, you promise yourself you’ll “do it…
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Expense Management for Small Businesses: How Solopreneurs and Growing Teams Can Stay Organized
Staying on top of business expenses might seem simple at first—especially for solopreneurs or teams just starting out. But as your business scales, expense management can quickly become a source of stress, confusion, and missed opportunities. Whether you’re running a one-person operation or managing a lean but growing team, having a system in place for…
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How to Protect Your Small Business from Disasters
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can disrupt any business. Preparing for these events is crucial to ensure your small business can quickly recover and continue operations. Here are some essential steps to help safeguard your business: By taking these steps, your business will be better prepared to handle and recover from unexpected disruptions quickly. For…
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Bookkeeping Tips for Small Business Owners
If you’re like many small business owners, you may tend to keep many of the financial details of your business in your head or through handwritten notes. This could lead to a myriad of problems down the road, not the least of which is an IRS Tax audit. This blog provides some key bookkeeping tips…
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A Post-Work Relaxation Guide for Business Owners
While rewarding, running a business is extremely challenging, not to mention stressful. Any business owner can agree that their brain is continuously going at a hundred miles an hour – even when they’re technically not working. Budgeting, personnel problems, and operational hiccups are just a few of the things that keep them up late at…
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Customer Retention Strategies to Keep Your Recent Holiday Gains
What good is your holiday revenue surge if sales go right back to normal after Dec. 25? Who wants to hustle as hard as you did in November and December, just to go back to business as usual? Don’t settle for yearly sales spikes. Arrange your business now so that increases are spread out over…
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January Returns: How to Handle Reverse Logistics (for Online Business Owners)
Do you dread customer returns, or do reverse transactions excite you? Understandably, most business owners love the thrill of sales — and prefer not to think about how to undo a deal. But in these unique times, when consumers are changing spending habits, 95% say that a good returns experience convinces them to shop with…
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2020’s Real Holiday Shopper Persona Examples (and How to Connect with Them)
Consumer spending has continued to outperform economists’ expectations. Despite 2020’s pandemic, U.S. shoppers still intend to spend more this year on holiday shopping than ever before, according to researchers at the National Retail Federation. Source: U.S. Census data compiled by the National Retail Federation However, shopping behavior has changed drastically. No longer can small business…