3 Ways to Protect Your Small Business Right Now
So many changes have taken place in the past few days. In response, we have been offering a webinar called "3 Ways to Protect Your Small Business Now." If you're stressing about how to pay [...]
Coronavirus: How Worried Should I Be
The stock market is down. What does that mean for your small business? Updated March 12, 2020 My clients and I have been talking about the impacts of coronavirus, or COVID-19, for a few [...]
5 Questions to Ask When Scaling Your Business
In working with businesses of all shapes, sizes, and funding sources over the years, these are 5 important questions to consider as you begin scaling your business. #1: Why do I want to scale? [...]
3 Common Pitfalls Business Owners Can Avoid
If it were easy everyone would do it We all know starting a business isn’t easy. Starting one as woman can be even more difficult. It’s not the right time because you’re building [...]
January Planning
So you’ve set your 2020 goals. Now what? This is the season when the internet lights up with countless articles about yearly goal-setting. That’s something we started with our clients around September/October so [...]
The Fast Lane from Founder to CEO
In this video interview with Barbera Law, I share some insights I've learned working with founders to help them along the CEO learning curve.
How Not to Get Screwed by the City of LA’s Freelance and Business Tax
A gentle reminder to report your freelance or business income to the City of LA by February 28, and to contact your councilperson about the gross receipts tax.
Week 8: Is it time to incorporate your business?
So, finally, we reach the question I get the most often from new business owners: how should I incorporate? Once your side hustle has some customers and you know you want to stick with it, it's likely time to level up to an LLC, S-corp, or C-corp.
Week 7: Five Steps to Knowing Your Sales Pipeline
This week, we dug into the five steps of a sales pipeline: confirmed interest, qualifying, proposal, verbal agreement, and contract. We use a sales pipeline to understand our likely revenue for a period and plan our operations. If you finished eight grade, you have all the math you need.