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Great Article on Goal Setting

May 18, 2008

I think I will actually do the exercise laid out in this Article. Here are some excerpts: Start by writing down what you think your current goal is. As an end state, it should sound something like: I have created a successful site that promotes our products well and creates over a hundred sales leads [...]

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I couldn’t agree more

January 3, 2008

Great post from a the freelance programming blog, Freelance Switch: This expresses my accounting philosophy perfectly. I just wish I had written it. Here are some basic accounting steps for a freelancer: Step 1 – You need a system to bill people.There are tons of invoicing tools online, (BlinkSale, FreshBooks). Most have free accounts for [...]

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Bean Counters make the world go ’round

December 5, 2007

This is the kind of stuff that gets me. As a Small Business Owner, when I read something like this I think “give me a break….don’t you have anything better to do?” But, as I stop and think about it, I realize that the distinction being examined here is important and potentially expensive. This must [...]

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Making Taxes less Taxing

November 25, 2007

You know, doing your taxes wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t just like, well….doing your taxes. Taxes are one of the more important and complex aspects of owning and operating a successful business. Many businesses pay a mixture of local, state, and federal taxes. Although you may not think you have to pay much [...]

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The “Luke Walton” of Accountants

November 13, 2007

Here is a great article on basketball. Yes, I know this an accounting blog, but this article makes a great point that can be considered to have an analog in the business world: BYU statistics professors Gil Fellingham and Shane Reese and master’s student Garritt Page compared the value of 13 box score statistics from [...]

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Details matter

November 1, 2007

I love this story. This is the kind of stuff that happens daily in Small Business — but the problems of Small Businesses don’t get the publicity that this does. So don’t feel too bad if you published the wrong effective date or forgot to include a specific instruction in your last bulletin to the [...]

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Typical Conversations

October 25, 2007

The other day, after a follow-up telephone conversation with a ‘future client’, I realized it was a pretty good microcosm of how most of my conversations with clients go: For instance: This Small Business Owner had “back-burnered” his decision about retaining an accounting professional in favor of running his business’ day-to-day operations. He was happy [...]

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Seams

September 3, 2007

Here is an observation from Seth’s Blog: Jason is running a long comment-thread at his blog about what a seamless user experience might be. What’s seamless, he asks… The answers are pretty predictable, and mostly correct. The thing is, seams are important. Try throwing a baseball or a football without seams. Wear clothes without seams [...]

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E-tides: from Apprehension to Assurance

August 22, 2007

Do you think paying your state payroll withholding, employer taxes, sales tax etc…is confusing? Do you forget your E-tides password every month? Do you get nervous when you see the e-tides home page: Paying state taxes is just as required as your federal taxes. If you are a Small Business Owner, you know about “E-tides” [...]

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8 keys for success

August 19, 2007

I liked this video so much, I bought the book.

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Work Less, Produce More: 5 Steps to Delegating with Authority

August 8, 2007

Here is another article reposted in it’s entirety from the National Society of Accountants website. I meet so many Small Business owners could be making more money, and have more personal time, if they only followed these steps. The greatest weakness of the majority of Small Business Owners that I talk to is the inability [...]

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Delegators vs. Abdicators

August 4, 2007

So which one are you? In my line of work, clients generally fall into one of two categories. Either they delegate or abdicate. I can see the look on a clients face when I am conducting our opening meetings. I can see that they are being seduced by the idea: just turn everything over to [...]

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Getting the Best Deal in a Credit Card Processor

August 2, 2007

When shopping for a credit card processor, there are a number of things to look for in determining which company will truly offer the best deal. One important item to evaluate is how the processor assesses fees. All processors will assess merchants fees for services. Some are legitimate and some are “junk fees.” Junk fees [...]

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Minimum Wage Increase Reminder

August 2, 2007

Beginning July 24, 2007, the Federal minimum wage increased to $5.85 per hour. Overtime Pay: At least 1 ½ times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Tipped employees: Employers of “tipped employees” must pay a cash wage of at least $2.13 per hour if they claim [...]

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Money Talks…..

July 24, 2007

The message is pretty good, if you manage to stop laughing at the presentation!

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