The holiday season offers one of the biggest opportunities to make your small businesses shine. Whether you run a retail shop, offer professional services, or sell online, the weeks leading up to the holidays are…
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Office Footrests for Pain Relief
An office footrest may not be the first fix that comes to mind when you want to ease the musculoskeletal pains you get when you must sit to work for long periods of time. But…
Timeless Startup Tips
I’ve been my own boss for more than 40 years. During those 40 years, I’ve written books for startups, built a small business content website that reached millions of people a year before another company…
How to Quickly Clean Email from Outlook
It’s time to clear your email inbox. You’ve got 2,892 unread emails sitting there. And there are 4,536 more emails that you’ve opened and haven’t done anything with yet. What can you do about all…
Hiring Minors and Student Interns
Hiring students and minors to work for you during the summer can be the perfect solution if you need extra help for the season. While it can be hard to find adults to fill short-term…
Office Chair Cushion for Desk Work: How to Pick the Best Seat Pad
Does your back, hip, or butt start to hurt after you’ve been sitting at work for while? Depending on your seating and work environment, using a seat cushion or lumbar support cushion can help relieve…
Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements for Small Businesses
Yet Another Update Surprise – or not! – the government has made yet another change in Under the most recent update (March 2, 2025), the Treasury Department has announced that it will “not enforce any…
Copyright and AI
Can you copyright that blog post or article you created with AI? What about the graphics you used AI to generate? The U.S. Copyright Office has just released a report with their opinion on the…
Starting a Partnership
I recently formed a partnership with a friend to launch Way More Living, a website designed to help people turn the second half of their lives into the best years yet. We’re just getting started,…
Self-Employment and Microbusiness Statistics
Are you thinking about freelancing or some other type of full-time or part-time self-employment? Do you dream of owning a microbusiness that employees a few people in addition to yourself? Or do you have a…