Posts Tagged ‘Small Business Owners’

Join Us at the New York Times Small Business Summit

This Thursday I, along with Anita Campbell (Small Biz Trends) and John Jantsch (Duct Tape Marketing), will be conducting all-day Q&A sesseions at the New York Times Small Business Summit. The topics we’ll cover include: How small businesses can prepare for new social media trends. The current business landscape for small business owners. How to build your web presence and optimize for local search These topics are just starting points.  Feel free to stop by and talk about anything related to small business and entrepreneurship.  We’ll be there pretty much the entire day (7:30 am – 1:15 pm, 2:15… Read the whole article...

Cash vs. Accrual and Why Accounting Matters for Taxes

By Thursday Bram When you're running a small business, it may seem like deciding between cash and accrual accounting is just one more thing on the long list of things you need to get done. But the fact of the matter is the decision on which accounting method you're going to use makes a difference in something as simple as how you do your taxes and can have long-lasting effects beyond the end of the year. The Difference Between Cash and Accrual Accounting The cash method of accounting is the most common choice for small business owners. Under the cash… Read the whole article...

101 Small Business Mistakes (and What You Can Learn From Them)

By Greg Go (This article was written in collaboration with Glen Stansberry, who writes about personal productivity at LifeDev and tweets from @glenstansberry.) Let's be honest: running a small business is not an easy task. Especially in an economic downturn. Small business owners are keenly aware that mistakes can be very costly at this point in time. Yet in order to have success, at least a few mistakes have to be made along the way. It's a part of building and growing. Oscar Wilde once said 'experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.' And even the most successful… Read the whole article...