Best Practices for Business Partnership Agreements

This Partnership Agreement Will Become the Cornerstone of Your New Enterprise Starting a new business can be an exciting time, but one of the most important steps in forming a…

Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance: A Personal Perspective Pick up the latest copy of just about any business magazine, and you’re likely to find at least one article on work-life balance. Employers all…

Sports Authority Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The Downfall of Sports Authority Just last month, the nation’s former largest retailer of sports apparel and equipment, Sports Authority, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. What can small business…

How Do I Keep Track of All These Tax Deadlines?

Keeping Track of Tax Deadlines While Owning A Business If you own a business, particularly if it is a new business, you are probably concerned about how to track tax…

Why Diversity?

Most of us have been exposed over the years to discussions in the media around the issue of diversity. The concept is applied to most of the structures of our…

Your Most Valuable Resource and How to Reclaim It Now

As a business owner, you likely spend most of your time thinking about money, profit margins, and cash flow. But, your most valuable resource is actually your time and it’s…

Your Business Entity Could Save Thousands on Next Year’s Taxes

If you have a newly incorporated LLC or Corporation, you only have until March 15 to elect S-Corporation status for the 2016 tax year, using IRS Form 2553. This is…

Never Underestimate the Power of an Older Employee

The inclusion of older employees in the workforce benefits companies, the economy, and the employees themselves. More people are choosing to work later in life, sometimes to delay retirement and…

Do your family, friends or spouse see your business as…

If you are relatively new in business, you may find that one of your biggest challenges is facing the reality that the people in your life aren’t taking your entrepreneurial…

Corporate Social Responsibility

As the Baby Boom generation moves on to retirement and Millennials increase their presence in the consuming world, more companies are including Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in their business plans….