by | Jan 11, 2014 | Business Success Series, Small Business Owners
In Part 1 of this series I reviewed the top 25 reasons small businesses fail and part 2 reviewed what business owners that prosper do differently. At this point most business owners start to get overwhelmed. They see so many things that...
by | Jan 9, 2014 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
One of the big advantages CPAs have working with small business owners is that we get to learn what makes them profitable and what makes them fail—without losing any of our own funds. Not only that, but we are also business owners. We face many of the...
by | Dec 4, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Small Business Owners
I recently met with a business owner who was complaining that he was tired of just barely surviving for the last 15 years. I asked him, “Why do you expect a different result when you keep doing the same things?” Too many business owners don’t...
by | Nov 15, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
The IRS requires that business owners keep mountains of paperwork to prove our deductions. One of the hardest things for business owners to do is keep copies of all the receipts we accumulate throughout our busy day and give them to bookkeeping. ...
by | Nov 11, 2013 | Business Success Series, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
(http://timemanagementninja.com) Keeping with this month’s theme of managing the owner and time management, I chose my favorite time management blog. The tagline for this blog, Helping you win the battle against wasted time, disorganization,...
by | Nov 8, 2013 | Business Profit & Cash Flow Tips, Business Success Series, Cash Flow, Sales & Marketing, Small Business Owners, Small Business Success Series
Business owners are used to having outside accountants audit their books to make sure they know what customers owe them, how long it takes customers to pay, what the company is spending money on, and, whom they are spending it with. Business owners...