Managing Your Business
Learn how to keep your business running smoothly with tips on hiring practices, improving sales, reducing liabilities, and more.
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Accounting Basics: What Is Accrual Accounting?
Understanding how accrual accounting works lets you better track a company's long-term performance. It just takes learning a few key concepts.
· 11 min read
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What Is Mileage Reimbursement?
Depending on how much you drive for business, mileage deduction or reimbursement can add up to significant savings Learn how self-employed people can deduct business-related miles driven from their taxable income.
· 15 min read
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What Is Variable Cost?
Understanding your business' variable costs can help you price your products correctly, remain profitable, and grow your business.
· 3 min read
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Is Your Blog a Copyright Infringement Suit Waiting to Happen?
With more than 180 million blogs in the world, you have to wonder how many of these blogs infringe copyrights—or have their own infringed upon. If you have an active blog and regularly create new content—or reference others' content—you will want to read this.
· 6 min read
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What Kind of Business Methods Can You Patent?
Regardless of what you sell, if you're an online entrepreneur with a unique method of doing business, you may be sitting on a valuable, patentable product. But will your method be found patentable, or a mere abstract idea?
· 4 min read
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13 Small Business Legal Requirements and Tips for Launch
There are many small business legal requirements to keep track of when you start a business. Save yourself the extra stress and use this checklist to monitor your progress.
· 7 min read
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Bookkeeper vs. Accountant: What's the Difference, and Which Is Better for Your Business?
While bookkeeping and accounting often go hand in hand, their job and qualifications are quite distinct from each other.
· 12 min read
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A Small Business Guide to Credit, Why You Need It, and How to Get It
Access to loans and lines of credit is essential to growing a business. However, to gain that access, it's critical to build your company's business credit so you can manage cash flow and access funding better when you need it without affecting your personal credit.
· 3 min read
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5 E-Commerce Landmines You Need to Avoid
It's easy to create a bad online shopping experience. Sometimes knowing what not to do is half the battle.
· 4 min read
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What Is a Statement of Information?
What are your annual reporting requirements as a small business? Hint—they vary by state. And, yes, an annual report and a Statement of Information are two names for the same document. Know what you're responsible for producing.
· 3 min read
