Managing Your Business

Learn how to keep your business running smoothly with tips on hiring practices, improving sales, reducing liabilities, and more.

What Is Variable Cost?
Understanding your business' variable costs can help you price your products correctly, remain profitable, and grow your business.
July 15, 2024 · 3 min read
What Is a Digital Strategy and Why Does Your Business Need One?
Developing a digital strategy and tweaking it over time will help your business shine online, reach more customers, and achieve greater success.
July 15, 2024 · 6 min read
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.
June 12, 2024 · 7 min read
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?
June 11, 2024 · 4 min read
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.
May 7, 2024 · 7 min read
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.
April 15, 2024 · 15 min read
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.
April 12, 2024 · 3 min read
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.
April 12, 2024 · 4 min read
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.
April 10, 2024 · 3 min read
IRS principal business codes: What they are and how they're used
Using the right principal business code is crucial for your company's taxes—and the health of your industry as a whole.
April 4, 2024 · 12 min read