How North Bethesda Businesses Can Build a Quality Prospect List

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Would you like to understand how North Bethesda Businesses can build a quality prospect list? How is your client/customer list faring these days? If you’re like every other business around you, you’ve got some churn happening. People move, change jobs, experience a shift in financial circumstances … the list goes on. Even in predictable economic […]

North Bethesda CPA’s Rundown of the 5 Basic Business Entity Types

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North Bethesda CPA’s Rundown of the 5 Basic Business Entity Types is helpful when it comes to the shape of your business and how it affects your future. When I’m talking about the “shape,” I of course am referring to your North Bethesda  business entity type. Did you know that you CAN change that after […]

North Bethesda Business Owners: Beware the Sales Tax Nexus

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North Bethesda Business Owners: Beware the Sales Tax Nexus – If your North Bethesda business sells a lot online, then we’re coming into the most wonderful time of the year. And this year, your customers will probably shop your website (and elsewhere online) EARLY in order to bypass all those supply-chain snafus. Cha-ching for you. Just don’t […]

Tia Cantrell’s Thoughts on Being Thankful in Difficulty

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Tia Cantrell’s Thoughts on Being Thankful in Difficulty  “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I think we can agree that Charles Dickens’s famous lines ring true when looking back at 2020 and 2021 (though “best” might seem like a stretch). With employees shifting their worlds to make room for […]

Year-End Business Tax Strategy for North Bethesda SMB Owners

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Year-End Business Tax Strategy for North Bethesda SMB Owners. There are many of our clients for whom this time of year is like their version of the Super Bowl. Some Montgomery County businesses are earning 30-50% (or more) of their yearly revenue in this one month. Others … well, this is a normal month — […]

How Your North Bethesda Business Can Fight Inflation

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How Your North Bethesda Business Can Fight Inflation – Whether you like it or not, you’ve most likely found yourself in a fight against inflation. Somebody hikes prices on your supplier and suddenly your supplier has no choice but to increase the price on you. Then you have no choice but to raise the price […]

Tia Cantrell’s Insights on Financial Planning for Business Owners

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Tia Cantrell’s Insights on Financial Planning for Business Owners – Last weekin the start of my series on financial planning for business owners, I got a little carried away by all of the talk of “independence.” So, I took the opportunity to ask you a simple question: Are you achieving the independence you want in […]

Tia Cantrell’s Business Negotiation Skills FTW

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Alright Rockville business owners, we’re going to move aside from tax-related things today (though there will be PLENTY to talk about as Congressional plans unfold) … and circle back into the nitty-gritty of how business works and share with you some business negotiation skills we’ve learned over the years. I write about this stuff because I don’t […]

Tia Cantrell’s Insights on Reducing Business Expenses

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No matter how far around the block customers are waiting, in business, only one line counts. The bottom one. That’s why reducing business expenses is critical. Getting a grip on the costs of doing business brings you benefits both short- and long-term. “Cost controls” generally mean saving money (who doesn’t like that?) and laying the […]