Virtual Assistants for Small Businesses

If you are a small business owner, you may feel like you wear a lot of hats. You may take on marketing, accounting, and customer service roles, which can leave you feeling overwhelmed. In our age of technology and with the more widely-accepted practice of “remote...

Receipt Management for the Digital Age

One of the benefits of being a small business owner is having the luxury of deducting company expenses from your tax return. How good does it feel to be able to write off that trip to Miami for a summer trade show or that swanky three-course dinner that you used to...

LivePlan: Not Just for New Entrepreneurs

You’ve made it through the exciting phase of entrepreneurship—that is, the beginning. You had a stroke of inspiration and you jumped on it—to launch your brick-and-mortar jewelry shop, your tech consultancy, or your bakery. Business has been cranking along...

KPI: Letters You Should Know

If you’re a Forbes reader, I’m sure you’ve heard of “KPIs”—likely used in reference to large corporations like Google or Apple. Key performance indicators help companies quantitatively gauge their financial health. The specific indicator...

Going Green with your Money

We might be straddling the literal-figurative bridge when we advise you to “go green with your ‘green,'” but in this age of eco-consciousness it is as important to be mindful of your paper usage as it is to recycle and bring your reusable canvas bag...

What a Bookkeeper Can Do for You

It’s a fact: a good bookkeeper can bring value to any small business. Many times this value is literal: he or she can save you money by catching payroll errors, by maximizing tax deductions through good record-keeping, and by tracking your credit card...