A Few More Common Marketing Mistakes Made By Businesses
Seeing what has happened in our nation’s fourth-largest city has been a sobering reminder of the fragility of life, and business. It’s helpful to be reminded that threats and disasters can (and do) strike from directions that you might least expect. And while this is quite obviously not the case when it comes to natural […]
Three Keys To Shorter Meetings For Your Business
Last week I wrote about working less and testing the 80/20 hypothesis for your Rockville business work cycle. I’d love to know if you had a chance to consider putting this into practice, send us an email using the email icon at the top right-hand corner of our site when you can, if so. Well, on that note, […]
Solving Problems in Rockville Businesses with Effective Solutions
There’s this idea out there among many wannabe Rockville business owners that they have to come up with the next completely fresh idea in order to have a great business. Shows like Shark Tank (which I love) go towards creating this kind of mindset — although the sharks do a very nice job of bursting […]
Tia Cantrell’s System To Turn Upset Clients Into Happy Clients
I am simultaneously eager while also being slightly horrified that tax season has officially begun. Horrified, simply because the IRS has been significantly behind the 8-ball this year, and I still can’t believe that we’re already halfway through February 2021. EAGER … well, because there are so many new credits available to Rockville business owners […]
How Rockville Small Businesses Should Handle A Crazy Customer
We’re keeping our powder dry over here at CreativeSolutionsCPA, as it relates to the “American Rescue Plan” proposed by Biden. There’s plenty of talk about it … but as of yet, nothing has passed. I prefer to live in the world of what *is* — instead of speculation. When something gets passed, I’ll have more to say […]
All Things PPP For Businesses in Rockville
We are knee deep in tax forms with the 3/15 deadline looming for corps. On top of that, of course, Congress continues to throw new things our way. The House passed the “American Rescue Plan” and there are stimulus-ish things to pay attention to. One provision of note for my Rockville business clients: The federal […]
Tia Cantrell’s Third Stimulus Package Update
Well, it doesn’t look as if the minimum wage increase is happening. But all kinds of other interesting nuggets are inside the Senate version of the third stimulus package, the “American Rescue Plan” (i.e. the Biden stimulus). Now, portions of unemployment are NOT taxable (when previously they had been); the actual stimulus payments have a […]
Big Employee Retention Credit Update For Rockville Businesses
With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act AND the CARES Act, the government is seemingly trying to go “full Oprah” with all of the credits, grants, and such that they are slinging out to Rockville small businesses… And while the media headlines are dominated by stories of the latest 1,400 dollar stimmies, the […]
Your Rockville Business Better Have Learned These Small Business Tips…
The return of March Madness this past week was a big reminder of everything that has happened in just one year. In my opinion, it was the canceling of this event in 2020 that made the entire nation (including those of us in Rockville to) sit up and take notice that this would not be […]
EIDL Updates For Rockville Business Owners
With all the floods, fires, hurricanes, and other events that happened in 2019, it turned out to have been a very expensive year for natural disasters. Then…2020 rolled in and said, “Wait until you see what I’ve got!” For decades, a little-known federal loan program administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) provided short-term working […]