If you’ve been trying to make your online business a reality for any length of time, you’ve probably already realized what a minefield the finances can be. In order to properly keep records for legal purposes, make sure clients, contractors, and investors are all happy with what they see, pay all the overhead, keep employees…
Oh, Amazon. Can we ever keep up with the advances, transitions and market share increases that you constantly roll out? A huge number of Profit Planners in our community are Amazon FBA sellers. But even if you’re not, it’s worth keeping your eye on the retail juggernaut’s movements. Because despite being a freakin’ gigantic company…
While the 9-to-5’ers out there measure out their lives in coffee spoons, online business owners measure theirs in cans of Red Bull. Can we get an amen? If you’re not putting out fires, you’re capitalizing on sudden sales opportunities. If you’re not in the final days of a seasonal promotion, you’re busting your butt to…
Is there anything quite like the power high of starting your own online business? Especially when things are going well, it’s just amazing to see your profits growing and think, “I did that?!” We’re all for enjoying the heck out of this power high. You’ve earned it—you should enjoy it! However, it does come with…
As a small online business that helps other small online businesses, we’ve seen just about every mistake get made. (And made plenty of them, ourselves.) At this point, we’re stoked to see our homegrown company growing like a frickin’ weed…but boy, do we slap our foreheads sometimes when we think back to the way we used…
Can you believe we’re already halfway through Q3? If you’re like us, summer has rushed past you in a blur of fun, sunscreen and barbecue smoke. (Somehow all that time we’ve spent relaxing made it go by even faster!) Hard to imagine during these dog days of August, but in just a few weeks, we’ll…
If you didn’t collect and remit sales tax in your Amazon FBA biz, this new tax amnesty program lets you off the hook. Yes, really! Amnesty for back business taxes you didn’t pay? Yes please! The Multistate Tax Commission (which you probably haven’t heard of before now) recently created a program offering sales tax…
Amazon launches Amazon Spark, a social sharing platform that shortens the path between product discovery and product purchase. When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to wait with breathless anticipation for the new editions of our favorite catalogue. At age 8, it was the American Girl doll catalogue–we marked the pages of…