Small Business
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Invoice Financing 101: What You Need to Know as a Small Business Owner
Invoice financing helps small business owners and entrepreneurs with the capital needed to continue operations while waiting for outstanding invoices. Many companies suffer from cash flow issues, rather than a lack of clients, preventing them to seamlessly operate their business. You may need the help of invoice financing companies in the form of accounts receivable or receivable financing to meet…
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4 Skills You Need To Save Money As A Freelancer
Here are four powerful ways you can save money as a freelancer while you build your business.Off the top of my head, I can think of many reasons to be a freelancer or your own boss. There’s the freedom of picking and choosing projects according to your interests; you can work at your own pace; set your own schedule; work…
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Applying for a Self-Employed Mortgage? Watch the Write-Offs.
It may be harder than you think to get a self-employed mortgage if you aren’t careful about how you do your tax write-offs.Self-employment offers a measure of freedom. You can set your own hours, work at your own pace, and control your income. But if you’re thinking about buying a house, self-employment might be the thing that stands in your way…
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How to Make Money Shoveling Snow
Here’s the easiest way to make money shoveling snow. You might think that making a buck removing snow is as simple as picking up a shovel, heading out the door early on the morning of that first big snowstorm, and seeing who needs help in your neighborhood. You’d be right. It is that simple. At least, that’s how you get…
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How to Self-Publish an eBook on Amazon KDP
Here’s everything you need to know about how to self-publish an ebook on Amazon KDP. Whether you want to start publishing novels as a side hustle, you’re writing a book to establish you or your business as an authority on a topic, or you need a great lead-magnet for your blog, it’s never been easier to publish a book. Kindle…
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How to Start an Amazon FBA Business: Best Beginner Resources
We did the research to find the best beginner resources for how to start an Amazon FBA business, so you can cut right to the good stuff without all the sales pages and crappy content.“You sell it, we ship it.” That’s Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) at its most basic. All you have to do is send an item to Amazon…
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How Tax Deductions Can Make Your Side Business More Profitable
You might be aware of tax deductions for side businesses (also called expense deductions and tax write-offs), that businesses and large corporations use to reduce the amount of profit they report to the IRS, and thus, reduce the amount of taxes they have to pay. Did you know that you can do the exact same thing with your side hustle?…
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How to Start an Etsy Side Business without a Great Idea
There are a lot of great tutorials out there for how to start your own Etsy shop. I want to do something a little different by giving you a real world example to follow. I started my Etsy shop, Green Valley Upcycling, in November 2020. Our first product was soy candles poured in upcycled wine and liquor bottles – cool…
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How to Make Money with Yard Work and Cleanups
You might be surprised how fast you can make money with yard work, otherwise known as cleanups: the simplest and easiest form of landscaping. If you start with cleanups, you can quickly grow a profitable landscaping side business. I’ve been landscaping for other people since I was a kid, and my first business of my own was a landscaping company.…
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How to Start a Side Business with No Cash Investment
So you want to start a side business but you need equipment, and licenses, and maybe even insurance, and you know that money doesn’t grow on trees. But money does grow. Labor is the only seed you need to plant. Opportunity is the soil. Determination is all the water you need. Cheesy metaphors aside, here’s the secret to starting a…
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