Learn how Julie teaches her clients to end the overdue invoice blues. Remember cash flow is king and overdue invoices will kill your business.
Let's solve this unpaid invoice issue.
There's alot of bad advice out there about getting a better and higher credit score. This advice below came from testing personal effects on my credit score.
You can have a better credit score.
FICO Credit Scores can be a mystery, here's some clarity to the confusion.
Learn how your actions affect credit score.
Here's some basic things every adult should know about credit and their fico score. It's really simple to understand, take a gander...
Here's why you should care about credit.
Start talking now to your CPA and make sure you have no surprise tax bills in April.
No more surprise tax bills in April.
Getting client leads is a big part of running a company. Your current clients are a great way to generate new sales leads by asking for referrals.
Keep clients happy around the holidays
Getting client leads is a big part of running a company. Your current clients are a great way to generate new sales leads by asking for referrals.
Client Referrals Can Make You Money, Here's How.
What web apps do you use to run your business? Here's what we use to run our company, we call it the Business Owner's Toolkit.
See Our Business Owner's Toolkit
There are some simple things you can do to put marketing best practices in action for your small business.
Make marketing more automated, here's how.
You're a business owner and you're wanting a business partner. How do you know when you've found the right one?
Seeking a business partner.
What takes a seemingly nice person and make them into a difficult client? Here are the things to look out for and how to fix them.
How nice people turn into difficult clients?
There are simple tweaks you can do in your weekly workflow that will save you many cashflow headaches.
Stop yourself from making simple mistakes.
Hiring a new employee shouldn't be so confusing. Here's the paperwork needed to get them working for your company.
Make onboarding new employees less confusing.
There are more marketing options than buying banner ads, here's a marketing tactic called "gift marketing".
Maybe gift marketing will work for you.
Starting anything means being playful. The journal to being world-class means being curious.
Be playful & learn.
We want to make sure our customers know our value, here's how we're making sure they get it.
Here's an idea we're testing.
I’ve been running a small business for six years and I’ve finally settled on a simple way to answer these key questions... Are we making money? And if so, how much?
Why do I see my total financial overview?
When do you need to write an employee handbook? When do you need to protect yourself against lawsuits...now.
Why do you need an employment handbook?
How do you choose a font? How do you make a website more easily read? Read our simple tips on improving font choices and styles.
Learn about readability on the web.
What issues does your business have? Share with us some issues and let's start a discussion.
Tell us your business problems.
Here's how we take a big business decision and make it easier to understand and take action upon.
Make a big decision easier with these steps.
Here's one technique to get easy traffic to your product. It takes a little organization but will yield results.
Get links, build traffic, follow these steps.
We're tricked into thinking we must get "work done," but we should be spending our time getting "better clients."
Start by figuring out what a better client is...
Our successful company is the sum of 10,000 easy wins. An "easy win" is how we make strategic decisions. Learn how we find the decision with the smallest loss result.
How we make decisions.
Read Craig's guest post telling their seven-year journey of bootstrapping a company to seventeen employees and two SaaS products in Chicago.
Here is Craig's story.
Samuel Hulick breaks down the mistakes of our onboarding experience in LessAccounting. Samuel gives us the play-by-play thoughts of a new user signing up for our software.
Learn from our onboarding mistakes.
How can a lawyer protect your business? Here are many common places an attorney can help your business stay protected.
As a small business, are you legally protected?
Finding and hiring a designer is tough. Using Dribbble.com you can find several designers available to work in your price range using these easy tips. Make it easy to find a great designer in your budget.
Find your next designer on Dribbble.com, here's how.
Our newest integration partner, WePay, is a Paypal alternative. WePay is known for their ease of use and great customers service. We're excited to have them helping our customers get paid faster.
Learn about our integration with WePay.
When should you grow your freelance business? Maybe you should stay a freelance and not worry about growing. Here are many pros and cons to becoming a boss.
Learn the pros and cons of having a freelance business.
Writing articles is not easy for me, but I've found an accidential writing process that helps me. I'm not a writer, but I write.
Read about my accidential writing process.
Taking an idea and making it into a rough draft is easy, but getting the article published and live is tough for many reasons. Here's how we take a rough draft article and get it published.
Learn about our editing process.
SEO and content development is not a mystery. Here's 3 types of articles we write. Learn some of our secrets to getting traffic via blogging and search engines.
Learn what types of articles we write.
The best software for freelancers are tools that save you time and frustration. Here's some new, affordable apps that'll help your freelance business.
New software that'll help your freelancer career.
What does a web consultancy look like when it's going out of business? Here's our warning about business.
See a common reason web businesses fail.
The interview process of hiring a developer is tough and hiring the wrong developer can cost you thousands of dollars. Here's how we hire our developers.
Read our method for hiring a developer.
No one showed us how to hire a customer support advocate. Learn from our successful hiring experiment for your first customer advocate or tech support position in your small business.
Learn how to hire the right person.
As an owner of a small business, you need to take time off for yourself. This job is stressful. Here are money saving tips for your next summer vacation.
Read these money saving tips.
For bootstrappers building brand loyalty cannot be done by spending money on traditional advertising. Instead focus on introducing yourself to your customer, providing a great product and acting like a friend.
Appsignal is my friend. Read on.
Discovering your Unique Value Proposition will make you more money. What is Unique Value Proposition? How do find it? Why is it important?
Make More Money, here's How...
Service-Oriented Architecture SOA feels like an old friend, but it's not. Read on to learn how flawed SOA is from it's core.
View full article.
Business owners, cash flow is the lifeblood of your business. Cash flow problems will break your business, and adding stress to your life. Avoid these problems...here's how!
Avoid Cash Flow Problems with These Tips.
Accounting software shouldn't cause pain or frustration. Quickbooks error, bad tech support and an application that suits the needs of any small business.
Frustrated with Quickbooks?
If you’re self-employed or run a small business on the side, one of the most dreadful tasks at tax time can be sorting through your personal and professional expenses. Should you be using the same credit card for both? Or is it time to get a card which will be used exclusively for your business?
Read on to find out.
Everywhere you look, you find someone talking about the impending doom of “taxmageddon” a k a The Fiscal Cliff. Guest blogger Eric Butts, CPA, explains what to expect and what you can do to prepare.
Read on.
Barrett Young is a CPA and a member of the THRIVEal CPA Network, and enjoys reading and playing guitar. He lives in La Plata, Maryland, with his wife and two toddlers, and they've been debt-free since November 2011. His favorite beer is Guinness, but he's always looking to try any dark microbrew.
Read on for some tips.
What is a business plan and why do you need it? What does a business plan actually do? How to write a business plan?
Read more about business planning.