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How Working with a Business Tax Strategist Can Deliver Bigger Tax Savings
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’d like to reduce your business and personal income taxes as much as possible. You might be willing to pay for someone to help you figure out how to do it. The challenge is finding that someone. Fortunately,...
How the “One Beautiful Bill Act” Impacts Business Owners
Over the past few weeks, I've gotten many questions about how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is going to impact you as a business owner. So today, I'm going to address it here on my blog. Broadly speaking, the majority of this legislation...
A Few Business Reflections from a Week of Camping in the Tetons
I just returned from 7 nights of tent camping in the Tetons with my husband and daughter. We paddle boarded down the Snake River and over glacial-fed lakes, hiked up some canyons, saw a large amount of wildlife and received an overly...
Why Some Businesses Are Highly Profitable
Have you ever wondered why some businesses are highly profitable (and others not so much)? It's an important thought exercise... especially if you haven't yet obtained a monetary take-home amount that leaves you feeling totally satiated....
Don’t Fall for False Profit Promises
Every week, I receive a few unsolicited marketing emails like this one. Maybe you do, too: Dear Erin: Is your brand identity keeping your business from being as profitable as it could be? Here’s how I can help. From redesigning your logo and...
Why Profit Matters (Hint: It’s Not Just Dollars-and-Cents)
Before she became a client, one of my prospects told me she was thinking of shuttering her growing, high-end-service-focused business. On the surface, this didn’t seem to make sense. The firm’s stellar reputation was drawing flocks of new customers...
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Why Business Mindset Alone isn’t Enough
Business mindset coaching is all the rage these days. You don’t have to look very far to find coaches offering to help you use the law of attraction, or manifesting, or even working on your different chakras to improve your business financial situation. There’s an...
Before You Grow Your Business
As a small or medium-sized business owner, hopefully your business is showing a profit... but perhaps that profit isn’t as high as you’d like it to be. Maybe you had envisioned having more of a financial cushion, paying yourself a higher salary, putting more into...
Improve Your Business Financial Health
Since I started my business in 2011, I’ve worked directly with hundreds of different small businesses, helping them with growth and profitability, and structuring them to align with their personal lives and all their goals. As time goes on, I’ve started thinking about...
4 Thoughts on Attracting Great Staff
To be successful as a small business owner, it’s crucial to find great staff members. Whether your business relies on full-time employees or part-time contractors (or, likely, a mix), you want to make sure you have the best possible people filling those roles. This is...
Luck or Financial Leadership for Your Business
If you’ve looked at any of the research on business success, you’ve probably seen this disturbing statistic: for new US businesses, only about two thirds will still be open after 2 years. And only about half of these businesses will still be around after 5 years. If...
Why You Should Always Focus on Profit
It’s no secret that we live in a society where bigger is better. In the business world, this often translates into a single-minded focus on growth, where growth is seen as the single most significant marker of business success. But while growth is important,...
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