There are bookkeeping solutions, software like QuickBooks and Xero, tools like Excel spreadsheets, or even manila folders or shoeboxes to be revisited around tax time. Then there are bookkeeping services, sometimes provided by a family member or friend or a paid bookkeeper – on staff or contracted – or even your CPA. But then there’s READ MORE
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Attracting and Hiring the Right Candidates
The competition is fierce for hiring top talent. Many say it’s more difficult to find “A Players” than it is to find customers and clients. You are not alone in your conclusion that recruiting and hiring are hard! An understanding of the role marketing plays in the hiring process can help. Recruitment marketing can be READ MORE
Time To Hire: Employee Or Contractor – Which Do You Need?
When it is time to hire people for your business, you need to ask some important questions. It is the right time to hire? Can I afford to hire someone now? Do I need someone full-time or will part-time be sufficient? These are all good questions. And, here is one key question we get asked READ MORE
Are You In Love With Your Business?
Are You In Love With Your Business? | 2 Smart Girls Guest Post It’s the season of love… in fact, I’ve already seen countless social media posts about the importance of loving your business, your customers, your social media, your marketing… and while I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day, I can identify with the sentiment READ MORE
6 Steps to Better Cash Flow
Take command of your cash flow. According to QuickBooks, sixty-one percent of small business owners regularly struggle with cash flow. Cash flow problems may seem particularly overwhelming now due to the “COVID-19 Cash Crunch”, but even when things are great, managing cash can be challenging. Here are six things you can change right now to READ MORE
Small Business Tax Prep: 7 Dates You Need to Know Right Now
Don’t you love tax-time? No? Just us? Not feeling it? We get it. We’re bookkeepers… We know we love tax-time prep, and we know that we may be alone in that sentiment. Despite the year we’ve had, there is some good tax-time news. Any stimulus payments you received in 2020 won’t impact your tax refund. READ MORE