You Can’t Take a Tax Deduction If You Don’t Know What to Deduct

Years ago, I worked with a client who left thousands of dollars of deductions on the table.  He did this several years in a row and even had a good tax professional. With that being said, this client failed (unintentionally) to mention to their tax professional that they had multiple thousands of dollars in deductions. How could this happen? Don’t we all want to minimize (legally) how much we pay […]

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5 Things Every Small Business Should Do at the End of the Year

I often say that profitability is intentional.  I love the end of the year because regardless of whether I met this year’s goals or not, I get to plan and dream of what could be in the upcoming year and put the plans and actions into motion to make those dreams happen. This is the final installation in my series on Preparing for a Profitable 2022.  This blog will list […]

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Keep Your Eyes on the Trends

To run any business well, its leaders need information.  Leaders need awareness not only of what is going on outside the business but inside as well.  To help with this, I recommend small businesses have certain tools in their tool kits.  While I won’t go into detail about these tools in this blog (you may go HERE to read more on that topic) I will name them; the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, […]

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Were You Profitable This Year?

It’s that time of year where we begin to look back at our progress and make those final plans to reach next year’s goals.  Perhaps you have already met your goal for the year (go you!!!) and you are working towards that stretch goal for December 31st. Even still, you might be wondering whether you can afford to hire that additional support next year, pay yourself a little more (or […]

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What Does It Look Like to Design a Business that Serves You?  

Is your business serving you? If not, are you on a path to have it serve you in the future? Every business owner has a vision or an idea of how they want their business to serve them. Some have visions of changing the world, their industry or their customers’ lives. Other business owners want to be a sought-after and dominant force in their areas of specialty.  Even still, others […]

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