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Nobody Likes Dealing with Death—Until They Attend One of Amy Pickard’s Humorous ‘Good To Go!’ Parties

Success

Dealing with uncomfortable death duties Pickard refers to all of the different decisions that need to be made and tasks that need to be completed after someone dies as “death duties.” Her parties are now referred to as “Good To Go!” She refers to this task as legacy organizing. “I

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Tax Planning for Freelancers: 5 Strategic Moves To Make Now To Avoid Tax Pain Next Year

Allwork

It’s possible to have missed opportunities in areas where you might have been able to restructure your personal finances. Become a digital nomad The rise of remote work and the gig economy has made it possible for freelancers to embrace the lifestyle of a digital nomad. This lifestyle choice can also have tax advantages.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. There are so many moving parts: the finances, the sales, the marketing, the billing.

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The Societal and Small Business Impacts of Economic Uncertainty

Small Business Labs

If you Google "economic uncertainty" you will find many references to its impacts on the economy and business. But finances also play a pivotal role. But you won't find much on its impact on people and society.   Several articles this week provide some insight on some of these changes: 1.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Accounting Firm’s Bottom Line

Small Business CEO

The minute you start to become happy with the revenues in your accounting firm, you and, if applicable, your partners might as well refer to your business as a lifestyle, rather than a business intent on generating maximum profit. The goal of any business should be to maximize revenues.

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What You Need to Know Before You Start Your Own Business

On The Job

Everyone wants to jump on that bandwagon," she says, referring Zuckerberg's phenomenal start-up success. Add to that the challenge of finding financing and attracting customers in a fragile economy and Roth has some tough advice for those wanting to jump into the start-up arena: Don't quit your day job. You give up a lot.

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Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs.

Stephanie LH Calahan

.  Here are a few tips to get started: Set up a filing system to store and manage your paperwork Your paperwork likely consists of three types of paper:  1) stuff you need to take action on 2) stuff you are saving for reference and 3) stuff that you should have tossed a long time ago, but haven't.    Avoid backlog. 

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