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Should You Quit Your Job Before Starting a Business?

By Allen Taylor

It’s tempting to quit your job when you decide to start your own business. But quitting right away may not be wise. Here are five things to consider before turning in your resignation. You’ve decided it’s time to start your own business. Good for you! But should you quit your job first and then start ...

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Business Ideas & Tips

Should You Quit Your Job Before Starting a Business?

By Allen Taylor

It’s tempting to quit your job when you decide to start your own business. But quitting right away may not be wise. Here are five things to consider before turning in your resignation. You’ve decided it’s time to start your own business. Good for you! But should you quit your job first and then start ...

California LLC Filing Fees Are Now $0 (Free)

Sheena Ingle

California has dropped its filing fees for starting a new limited liability company (LLC) and many other business entities until June 30, 2023. Previously, entrepreneurs would have to pay $70 to file their Articles of Organization, but now they can form a California LLC for free ($0). To encourage business growth, the California legislature has ...
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Finance Your Business

How to Write an Elevator Pitch

By Janet Attard

An elevator pitch, or elevator speech, is a short, powerful description of what you do and why it’s important to customers or investors. Here’s how to write an elevator pitch that gets attention. You’ve just encountered a potential customer or someone you’d like to have invest in your business. You’ve got less than a minute ...

PPP Loan Forgiveness Status for 2023

By Bill Bauer

If you received a PPP loan for your business during the pandemic, you may still be able to get forgiveness for the loan. We’ll discuss the requirements and steps for applying. As we enter 2023 and the fourth year of the “new normal” with COVID-19, many small businesses are still struggling. The U.S. Small Business ...

Slash Your Heating Costs This Winter

By Patricia Schaefer

Use these low-cost and no-cost ways to lower your heating bill, regardless of your heat source. Read on if you’d like to save 20% or more on your heating bills this winter. The cost of heating your home — and your home office — could put a huge hole in your budget this winter whether ...
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Market Your Business

8 Effective Marketing Hacks for Real Estate Agents

By Anurag Gupta

As real estate agents, our biggest concern is to get our marketing strategies right. This will not only help us expand our presence in the real estate market but also enable us to gather more leads. The endless competition that we face and the new trends that keep popping in this industry can be quite nerve-wracking. Managing ...

Marketing Definition: What Can Marketing Do for Your Small Business?

By Michele Pariza Wacek

In this two-part series on what marketing can and cannot do for you, find out what you should expect from your marketing efforts. I thought I would clear up some misconceptions about marketing in this two-part series: What Marketing Can Do For You and What Marketing Can’t Do For You. We’ll start with the positive. ...
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Keep Your Business Compliant

Corporate Transparency Act: Reporting Requirements for Small LLCs and Corporations

By Janet Attard

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is federal legislation that will require LLCs and corporations with fewer than 20 employees to start reporting ownership information to the federal government in 2024. Here are details that may apply to your small business. As the owner of a limited liability company (LLC) or a corporation with few or ...

Self-Employment Tax Deductions: How They Work

Team ZenBusiness

Have you become self-employed and begun working from home? If so, you need to be aware of all your legal tax deductions so you can avoid overpaying your income taxes. Here’s how tax deductions work. According to the Census Bureau, there are more than 26 million businesses in the United States that don’t have employees. ...
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