Your car dashboard tells you how far you’ve driven and how much gas is left in the tank. Your smartphone has a button to tell you how much space you’ve got left after taking all those pictures of the kids. Your bank’s all too happy to show you a report on how your...

Before I get into accounting methods basics today (a subject near to my heart) ... I hope you were able to get in on some Memorial Day activities this past weekend (though I know some East Coast business owners are in the thick of things during this commemorative...

Apparently, it is National Small Business Week. And while I tend to think these kinds of “national weeks” or days, or what have you, are often pretty silly … well, as someone who has been in the trenches with the SMB community over the last few years, I...

In the olden days, East Coast business owners kept track of their records by hand in the old reliable notebook or ledger. So what an innovation it must have seemed to move business information to a floppy disk that could plug into a computer.The disks got smaller (and...

Any of you East Coast business owners remember those halcyon days when you could "talk a little business" with somebody while traveling ... and then you got to write off the whole getaway on your taxes?Even if that ever really happened, that ain’t today. Now, the good...

The overall economy is on a tear right now, but for some businesses, things don’t look so rosy. By the way, if that is you and your business (not so rosy), there are a multiplicity of grants, tax credits, and very favorable loans available -- though doing it properly...

It seems as if the world is getting drenched in tech. It’s literally falling from the sky (we’re looking at you, rocket boosters).Because there is so much technology around us, it can be easy to become numb to it. We can quickly start to view it as just a “thing”...

There's this idea out there among many wannabe East Coast business owners that they have to come up with the next completely fresh idea in order to have a great business. Shows like Shark Tank (which I love) go towards creating this kind of mindset -- although the...

Slogging through the summer, and with the weather still hot, it can be really tempting to sort of press cruise control for the month of August until Labor Day hits us, and *then* really put that nose to the grindstone. But could it be that a rhythm of working a little...

This week marks the end of another tumultuous tax filing season.I can’t remember anything like it. With the last minute legislative changes, software update delays, and IRS service issues -- this very well might have been the most disrupted and difficult tax season in...