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Texting for Your Small Business: Four Tips to Do It Like a Pro
Apr 27
By Rieva Lesonsky—Ready to step up your customer communications with texting? Texting, or SMS (short message service) has emerged as a convenient, eff …
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Top 8 Tax Deductions for Small Businesses and Consultants
Apr 05
By Steve Strauss—One of the great things about owning an independent small business is that you can deduct a lot of things that were not deductible wh …
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Small Business Tax Records: What You Need to Keep
Mar 31
By Rieva Lesonsky—Taxes done? Ready for some spring cleaning of all that financial paperwork? So how long do you need to keep tax records for a small …
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3 Ways You Can Delight Customers and Fuel Referrals
Mar 24
By James Monroe—What’s the cheapest, most effective way to get new customers for your small business? Buy advertising? Redo your website? Put your pho …
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The ABCs of LLCs: How to Structure Your Small Business for Success
Mar 01
Q&A with CPA Kyle Pearson—The small business landscape is changing, with a growing number of entrepreneurs leaving the corporate world to start fr …
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Small Business Love: Rekindle the Love for Your Business This Valentine’s Day
Feb 10
By Steve Strauss—As an entrepreneur, you have likely poured your heart and soul into your small business.However, over time, it is natural for that ex …
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Small Business Growing Pains: Communication Is Key For Keeping Customers Happy
Jan 27
By James Monroe—What happens when your small business grows and you can’t handle every customer personally? As a small business owner, you are closer …
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Your Microbusiness Is No Ordinary “Small Business”
Jan 20
By Steve Strauss—Like many of you, I bet, I grew up in a small business household. My dad and his partner started with a single, small carpet store in …
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Time Management for Small Business: Part 2
Jan 13
By Rieva Lesonsky—How do small businesses like yours get it all done? One way is to regularly reflect on where you can save time. The small business t …
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5 Best Books for Small Business Owners in 2023: Recommended Reads
Dec 12
By Rieva Lesonsky—Books, to me, like the iconic best-selling author Stephen King wrote, “are a uniquely portable magic.” For small business owners, th …
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Time Management for Small Business: 5 Ways to Get More Done
Dec 07
By Rieva Lesonsky—Effective time management is especially important for small business owners, who generally feel they don’t have enough hours in the …
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Small Business Saturday and Beyond
Nov 22
By Steve Strauss—Now that a chill is in the air and the leaves are falling, it is officially time to start thinking about the holidays. Indeed, for th …
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