Kick off 2008 by taking a good look at your business.  Create a strategic business plan for your business.  Strategic planning is not just for big corporations; it is an excellent way to monitor your goals and motivate you.  For small businesses, there’s no need for boring board meetings, but you can develop a good [...]

An excellent post about getting the right accountant and preparing for next year’s tax bill. I hightly recommend checking in with an accountant in December to see what you expected tax bill will be. Also, get organized on Quickbooks or some accounting system where can actually review your P/L and Balance Sheet.     clipped [...]

Marci Alboher has a great post on her Shifting Careers blog which gives 5 tips on time management. Tame the Email Beast. [Have you read Bit Literacy?] Eliminate unnecessary meetings. [Sometimes a meeting isn't necessary when there is nothing but a recap or review] Put up boundaries.  [Get off the IM/Facebook/Google Chat when you have [...]

A friend tipped me off to a H&R Block’s new web community, Digits. I just checked it out, and it provide great valuable information about the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). What is AMT? AMT stands for the Alternative Minimum Tax. First introduced in 1969, the AMT was created to ensure that the wealthiest American households [...]

Today, I read the blog post on Entrepreneur.com about how dyslexia is common among small business owners. It’s not surprising that dyslexics are drawn toward running their own businesses. As business owners, they can play down their weaknesses when it comes to reading and writing, and focus on the more creative tasks at hand. But [...]

I discovered a new use for Wesabe today while working with a new client doing Quickbooks set-up. See my client has a personal banking account with a bank that doesn’t allow for data transactions to be easily uploaded into Quickbooks Pro for Mac. So I downloaded an OFX file from the bank, and did a [...]