Affordable and Useful Gifts Here are a number of gift ideas for the home office and for home. I’m recommending them because they are all items I own (or have older, similar versions of) and…
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Holiday Ideas for Small Businesses
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…
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…
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…
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…
How To Fix Small Business Cash Flow Problems
How do you fix cash flow problems in a small business? Solving cash flow problems is a dilemma that many small business owners and self-employed face. Even when the rest of the economy seems OK,…
Save Money on Printing Costs
I got a promotional email recently, and above the sender’s signature were the words, “Save a tree, please don’t print.” My immediate reaction was who prints email? With printing costs so high, why would anyone…