New businesses pop up every day while thousands of businesses close shop too. Numbers are thrown around that makes it scary to start a business at all, but statistics shows there is a 50% chance a small business will survive its first five years. While 50% chance isn’t as scary as saying there is a 10% chance, there is still a lot of responsibility on a small business owner to make sure your business doesn’t become one of the numbers...

Saving money is one of the hardest things to do when you are working. Bills take up the majority of your monthly income and saving money is made even harder with all the temptations surrounding you when payday comes, such as shopping, dining out and many more. Saving money and paying your obligations and treating yourself once in a while can be possible. All it takes is discipline. When it comes to saving, you must treat it as a monthly...

In the United States alone, billions of dollars were lost due to credit card fraud. In most cases, those who became victims found no justice. Scammers are operating anonymously. Catching them and bringing them to courts for trial might be close to impossible. These scammers also choose no victim. Anyone can be a target of credit card fraud. If you are not vigilant especially in using your credit card and in using the information online, you can be the next...

As a business owner, the last thing you need are more tasks on your to do list. And yet, that’s exactly what tax time presents because as we all know “doing your taxes” isn’t just one task, it’s a bunch of little tasks that add up to a huge pain. If you’re a small business owner, a piece of you is probably already starting to dread that impending April 15th deadline. But here’s some good news: While eliminating all of...

Quote Software: The 21st Century is About Automation: Our CloudBooks app has proven a key resource for so many companies and contractors who are trying to bring themselves into the 21st Century. Many companies still rely on pen and paper or one-off efforts to produce the innumerable invoices, time-sheets, payment and expense reports, and quotes which their businesses require to get and track jobs and make sure the company has been properly paid. Simply put, in the digital era the...