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How To Start A Business For Under $1,000
Deborah Sweeney | September 21st, 2011
Starting a business is exciting, challenging and can be extraordinarily rewarding. Sadly, it is not cheap. It can cost a lot of money to get a company started so it is important to save money wherever and whenever you are able to. If you have a great business idea, but a less than stellar budget, we at MyCorporation are here to help in any way we can. While there are different options to save money while starting a business, and you should research which one is right for you, we can hopefully steer you in the right direction. Here is our advice for starting a business for under $1,000. Bundle, Bundle, Bundle Bundling is your best buddy in this situation. One of the trickiest aspects of saving money is doing so without cutting corners. There are certain things that you may rationalize as not needing, but in reality should probably invest in sooner rather than later. For example, many businesses that are just starting out stay in their default sole-proprietorship phase where every asset of the business is tied to the business owner. While that is all well and good while the business is small, many owners quickly find themselves paying an extraordinary amount of income tax as all of their business’s profits are considered their wage. Incorporation ends that by allowing the business owner to pay themselves whatever they want and paying different tax rates on their income and on what the corporation earns. A little complicated, I know, Continue reading…
Tips For Newly Incorporated Businesses
Heather Taylor | June 16th, 2011
So you broke out of your constraining cubicle in order to experience the wide open spaces of running your own business. Even more than that, you’ve made the business savvy choice to incorporate. Welcome to the big leagues, buddy. Incorporating or forming an LLC protects your assets and saves on taxes, plus gives your business an air of legitimacy. Adding an ‘Inc.’ or an ‘LLC’ after your business’ title does a lot in terms of authority. Keep your business from running wild with these 5 tips that will get you going in the right direction. 1. Consult a tax professional. In the beginning stages of incorporating it can at times be unclear as to which type of business entity you should form. If there are any doubts in your mind, if you are even a bit unsure which route you’re going to take, consult a tax professional. They will provide you with the answers and send you in the right direction. 2. Protect your intellectual property. The best way to go about doing this is to invest in a trademark. With an official trademark your business is fully your own. You can go about doing this by utilizing a company like (yours truly) MyCorporation. We will help claim your own trademark and take care of the legal matters along the way. 3. Talk to other successful business owners. People love to speak about how they made it to the top. Why not take advantage of some of that information? There Continue reading…
Wpromote Incubates Startup, CouponPal.com
Kristy Hessman | May 12th, 2011
Wpromote is a pretty cool place to work for a couple of reasons. 1. A lot of smart people work here. 2. Wpromote was founded by a Mike Mothner, a natural entrepreneur who started his first business in middle school. So, it’s no surprise that one of those brainy employees should come up with a great website idea and Wpromote agree to incubate the business, providing the financial and human resources to get it going. Enter CouponPal.com Launched in October 2010, CouponPal is a website dedicated to helping consumers find the very best deals and discounts on online products. Couponpal.com, the brainchild of Wpromote’s Scott Elling, was created to compete and eventually outgrow some of the larger coupon sites like retailmenot.com and couponcabin.com by better communicating the usefulness of coupon codes and providing customers coupons when they need them, without being pushy or intrusive. In these tough economic times, everyone is trying to save a buck or two and CouponPal’s job is to help shoppers save money on all of the products they buy online, while educating them on how to do it. (CouponPal will soon be offering e-courses on how to best find and use online coupon codes) The site features the latest deals from hundreds of retailers on thousands of different products and will eventually feature tools to help consumers comparison shop more efficiently. According to statistics, 87 percent of incubated businesses make it. Take advantage of CouponPal’s latest Norton coupon code on antivirus software and help increase Continue reading…
Mike Mothner Talks SEO on “Your Business” on MSNBC
Maria Sass | February 2nd, 2011
NEW YORK (MSNBC) – One of Wpromote’s core services, Search Engine Optimization (better known as SEO), should be part of any small business owner’s growth strategy. In order for your business to have an impact online, you need to rank high on search engine results pages. Michael Mothner, founder and CEO of Wpromote, provides tips on how to improve your website’s prominence. He also touches on the latest changes in Google’s search algorithm to incorporate more of the social stream into search results, and adding video content to your site. Check out the interview on MSNBC here: SEO lays down an extremely important foundatin to all online marketing campaigns by making it easy for new content to be indexed and linked to from other campaigns or guest bloggers. The best results occur with a combination of smart ‘on-page’ SEO tactics and a solid ‘off-page’ SEO strategy, such as creating informative peices of content that people will share, causing organic and relevant links to appear back to the site. Save this Post!
The Best Products of CES 2011
Kevin Burns | January 25th, 2011
The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) lived up to its hype this year by delivering around 50 tablets and featuring over 100 companies with 3D products. About 140,000 people attended this event to see the most technologically advanced products from 2,700 companies, and without a doubt each guest left with a sense of amazement. There is no way I would be able to cover all the products displayed this year, but I will be discussing the top products from CNet’s Best of CES 2011 Awards, and then revealing the number one product from each category. Let’s start the overview with a rapidly growing industry, Car Tech. The three items that stood out in this category are the Toyota Entune, OnStar for After Market, and Countour Mobile. Of these three new products the most coveted item in the eyes of CNet editors is the Toyota Entune. Toyota Entune brings popular apps to your car on a bright LCD screen, and makes using them advantageous to drivers. The next category in CNet’s Best of CES this year is Design. The four products that received the most buzz for their blueprint are the Samsung HT-D7, Casio Tryx, Acer Iconia, and Samsung 9 Series. In the eyes of CNet’s editors the Casio Tryx deserved the award for greatest design because of its ability to twist, turn and be contorted in various ways to assist the photographer in their pursuit of interesting images. I had to deviate from CNet’s desicion here because I found the Acer Iconia to be much more interesting, and honestly on my Continue reading…
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New Tools That Make A Difference
Kevin Burns | December 14th, 2010
In the near future, deforestation could lead to our last white Christmas. This is true because leveling our carbon absorbing forests is the number one contributor to green house gas build up. This growing problem is a top priority for tropical countries around the world, and because of the immense size of this issue people and companies from around the world are contributing time and money to the cause. One company that can handle the amount of data that needs to be compiled and reviewed constantly in order to keep track of our changing forests is Google. Through a new program called Google Earth Engine users can stay up to the moment with current changes and long term trends of global deforestation. This blog will be covering the tools scientists around the world are using to help perserve our rain forests and a few other recently release tools that you can use to influence the world you live in. Google Earth Engine was launched on December 2nd at the International Climate Change Conference. This new Google tool compiles 25 years of satellite images to help scientists around the world compare our forests over time. Google is also working closely with indigenous tribes of the Amazon forests in Brazil, by providing them with tools to monitor their forests. These tools include android phones that help specify location and devices that help indicate a lower amount of carbon-dioxide where the preservation of trees is taking place. Google is also working closely with Carnegie Institute of Science, and together they have developed a tool called Continue reading…
