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Buying Guide: VoIP and Broadband Internet Telephony Services
How do you choose a VoIP telephony provider? How many of these companies are there? Amusingly, there are probably enough VoIP providers to fill a phone book. Seriously, there are a few hundred. Broadband Internet telephone services like RingCentral, Skype, Phone.com and Vocalocity are just the tip of the iceberg. This Buying Guide should help you navigate your way to a great relationship with your new vendor.
VoiP and cell phones: Sorting out your phone bills
What do you really need to know about VoIP, land lines and cell phones? Some VoIP service providers can send calls to your cellular phone, PDA, or smartphone. Which is wonderful until your broadband internet connection crashes. Others provide call routing services or customized phone numbers. There's more to think about than just calling the phone company and lugging a telephone into the wall.
Five Lessons Every Small Business Can Learn from Dr. Horrible
If you've never heard of the movie or TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the name Joss Whedon will likely mean little to you. But then, so will the word "Internet." A couple of years ago, Whedon assembled some friends, including Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother, and made a three-part web-based series, available to watch online, download from iTunes, and finally on DVD. It was hugely successful among nerds and geeks. It was called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and this is some of the wisdom we can glean from Dr. Horrible, himself.
Business Technology That Won't Break the Bank
For many small business owners, choosing the right tools and technology to support their company can seem like a daunting and expensive task. However, it’s no longer necessary for small companies to pay big prices for IT.
Five Lessons Every Small Business Can Learn from Mad Men
On July 25th, Matt Weiner's journey through the Madison Avenue advertising world of the 1960s returns to television. Jon Hamm plays the charismatic Don Draper, an ad man with a murky past and a talent for persuasion -- both in his advertising campaigns and for the many, many women in his life. It's his way with words that saves many client relationships for Sterling Cooper, the company Draper works for, based on the real-life agency, BBDO. Maybe some of them can help you, too.
Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Limiting Your Audit Risk
As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (March 15, 2010)
You can never eliminate that chance of being audited, because a perfect tax return will be suspicious, too (who files perfect taxes?) Company.com has ten ways to reduce your risk of an audit – we figure that most small businesses don’t have big accounts in the Caymans or Switzerland, and that if you’re reading this you haven’t run into significant tax problems in the past. Otherwise you'd know this stuff already.
Taxes for Entrepreneurs
Your First Tax Season
If, like tens of thousands of individuals in 2009, you started a business, 2010 might be the first time you’ve ever needed to file business taxes. You might think that they’re just like individual taxes, but you’d be wrong. Business taxes are the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Your individual taxes are the Cliff Notes of “Where’s Waldo?”
What to do if you won't be able to file your taxes on time.
It's April 8th. Raise your hand if you've filed your taxes. Anyone who raised their hand, you get a gold star, two if you estimated and paid throughout the year. Everyone else, read on.
Buying Guide: Payroll Processing
We think that only a violent catastrophe could damage employee morale and job satisfaction faster than a payroll problem. A substantial portion of the workforce lives paycheck-to-paycheck. Disrupt a pay cycle for more than a week, in the wrong week and many people would lose their home. No pressure, boss.
Why you need a bank account
Separation of personal and business finances is essential for any business owner, and gives you a little protection from the IRS. How do you open a bank account for your business? It's not quite as simple as wandering into the local branch of the big bank on the corner.