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How to Optimize Your Business for Holiday Online Shopping
  • 25 September 2023
  • Public Relations

How to Optimize Your Business for Holiday Online Shopping

The holidays are just around the corner. Learn how to optimize your small business for holiday online shopping with our top tips!

17 Interview Questions Every Small Business Owner Should Ask
  • 23 June 2023
  • Public Relations

17 Interview Questions Every Small Business Owner Should Ask

Hiring employees for your business can be stressful. Make it easy with this list of interview questions for small business owners.

Your Guide to Successful Father's Day Marketing
  • 09 June 2023
  • Public Relations

Your Guide to Successful Father's Day Marketing

Don’t have a strategy for Father’s Day marketing to drive sales? No worries, let us help. Read this blog to learn more.

The 2021 Small Business Mid-Year Check-In
  • 12 July 2021
  • Liam Edwardson

The 2021 Small Business Mid-Year Check-In

If history teaches us anything, it is that this past year and a half has been inarguably challenging for many. Hopefully, your small business is rebounding, building momentum and getting back to pre-March 2020 days. There may be no better time than the present to take stock of how 2021 has gone so far. Here is a list of mid-year steps you could take to determine your current status and strategize how you might want the rest of the year, and ensuing years, to unfold.

Small Business Tax Tips: A 2021 Tax Prep Guide
  • 05 April 2021
  • Jelani Markus

Small Business Tax Tips: A 2021 Tax Prep Guide

As a small business owner, tax planning can be a year-round event, considering all the record-keeping and quarterly payments you have to make to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Your tax-related activities will inevitably heighten during the tax season to comply with the April 15 deadline (extended to May 17 for all individual, sole-proprietor and single member LLCs). Depending on your business structure, filing your taxes can be simple (e.g., sole proprietorship) or complex (e.g., C corporation).