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It may be a good decision for small business owners to choose to be treated as an S corporation for Federal tax purposes. This allows income to flow through the corporation without being taxed until it is claimed as income by the shareholders. This avoids double taxation of corporate income. This may be the right decision for your new company, but you should discuss this thoroughly with your accountant before you decide. The following are the limitations on S corporations that you should consider:1. No more than 100 shareholders.2. Only one class of stock.3. Limits on deductibility of debt.4. If S-Corp has a home office, the tax deduction is only a 2% miscellaneous itemized deduction on Schedule C, because it is treated for tax purposes as an employee business expense. In a partnership or LLC, a home office is
There is a Zen story that I like a lot about the man in a rowboat who saw a distant ship on the horizon.As it got closer, he thought, “Hmm, it’s heading toward me; that’s strange.”Then it got closer, still. “Hey, you, what’s up? Turn away!”Still closer, he screams, “You’re going to hit me! Turn away, turn away!”The next thing he knows, he’s spitting water, wondering what happened. As he looks at the ship, continuing on its course, he notices it doesn’t have a pilot.He wasted all that time shouting to no one. He would have been better off changing his own course slightly, than trying to get the attention of a phantom.Yet, this happens all the time, in business and in personal life: We try to impress the wrong people.Let me give you an example.It’s a lot of fun being on radio and TV, but
Have you asked yourself these questions? Are you happy with the answers?
1. Are you working harder to secure fewer and fewer customers?
2. Are you finding price to be a MAJOR concern for your buyer?
3. Are you generating interest from clients but not having a good ratio of inquiries to closings?
IF you said yes to these questions, you may be ready for the journey of reinvention.
Two things drove me to reinvent my speaking business:
1) I longed for a unique message, a brand to differentiate me in a crowded market. It is not new news that there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people who can fill an hour on a conference agenda and who present similar things as you and I. I didn’t want to be a part of that. Perhaps you don
I have four month of an experience at work at home based business opportunity and would like to share it here. It is not a talk of me, but of my experience, maybe can help new beginners.This experience is face to face with one thing: I am not from an English country and the English language is not used any day here. It has a specific useful at English schools, work, airport, hotels. There is no use day after day into household.Guess what: my work at home based business is in English.The second problem, that I learned to call it by a challenger, is my no experience at HTML language, even Internet marketing four months ago. I used to navigate at Internet, read email, open web sites and no more.Yes, I know you think I am unreasonable. But see it is always been my dream to have financial independence. It is not likel
Have you asked yourself these questions? Are you happy with the answers?
1. Are you working harder to secure fewer and fewer customers?
2. Are you finding price to be a MAJOR concern for your buyer?
3. Are you generating interest from clients but not having a good ratio of inquiries to closings?
IF you said yes to these questions, you may be ready for the journey of reinvention.
Two things drove me to reinvent my speaking business:
1) I longed for a unique message, a brand to differentiate me in a crowded market. It is not new news that there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people who can fill an hour on a conference agenda and who present similar things as you and I. I didn’t want to be a part of that. Perhaps you don
As the international freight industry grows, Australia risks being left behind owing to the high cost of rail transportation.The freight forwarding industry is growing at a phenomenal rate with billions of tons of cargo being transported around the globe via air, sea and land.In a number of countries, rail freight forwarding is anticipated to rise from between 50 and 80% by the end of 2010. For freight companies in many countries the main challenge is to improve their cargo management process in order to enable the predicated growth to take place effectively.Currently, the cargo management process is expensive and labour intensive. This is because much of the work (such as verification of shipments) has to be done manually. Such manual systems hinder the adeptness of freight dispatching and sequencing. The reason for t
1. Are you working harder to secure fewer and fewer customers?
2. Are you finding price to be a MAJOR concern for your buyer?
3. Are you generating interest from clients but not having a good ratio of inquiries to closings?
IF you said yes to these questions, you may be ready for the journey of reinvention.
Two things drove me to reinvent my speaking business:
1) I longed for a unique message, a brand to differentiate me in a crowded market. It is not new news that there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people who can fill an hour on a conference agenda and who present similar things as you and I. I didn’t want to be a part of that. Perhaps you don
The question isn’t whether or not your business has a website, it’s a given it does. The real question is this: Does your website allow you to connect and interact with visitors? If it doesn’t, you are missing out on an enormous opportunity to grow your business.A website that is nothing more than an electronic brochure is not going to help you attract more clients and be more profitable.Did you know that the first time someone visits your website that it is most likely the last time they will visit?If most people never return after the initial visit, this means that you usually only have one chance to make a connection and provide visitors with information they want. So how do you make this connection?It’s been said there are only two reasons to have a website:1. To capture someone’s contact information
IF you said yes to these questions, you may be ready for the journey of reinvention.
Two things drove me to reinvent my speaking business:
1) I longed for a unique message, a brand to differentiate me in a crowded market. It is not new news that there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people who can fill an hour on a conference agenda and who present similar things as you and I. I didn’t want to be a part of that. Perhaps you don
The Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Division’s Franchising Group is not well known by consumers or the citizenry. Franchising in the United States Accounts for one-third every consumer dollar spent and 400,000 outlets or stores. The Federal Trade Commission over sees the franchising industry. Some franchisors believe the FTC desperately needs turn over at the franchising division. Some attorneys who make money suing franchisors on behalf of franchisees and vendors like things just the way they are and realize any change would tip the balance and they would lose income in a highly litigious and good paying sector of law.One attorney we interviewed said in an email: “Well, I have to, very respectfully, disagree. Franchising has a good and competent friend in the FTC, and particularly with Steve Toporoff, who has lead responsibilit
2) I wanted to develop a business that would build value, something that was scalable and hopefully sellable IF and when I choose to stop speaking and do something else.
My story
Somewhere around the year 2000, I decided I was ready for a change but I didn’t know where to begin. A few years later, I had the good fortune of meeting Bruce Turkel, a branding expert. Bruce owns a branding firm in Miami and he agreed to help me create some new promotional materials which eventually led to creating a whole new brand. Bruce came to hear me speak; I heard his branding presentation. I read his great book Building Brand Value. We bounced some ideas back and forth over several months. Then EUREKA! Bruce had written down my name on a white board in his office. As he looked at it one day, a phrase knocked him over. Right in the middle of my name, Tim Richardson, was the phrase I
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