Business and Tax Savings
As business owners prepare for tax season, many sole proprietorships begin to consider the tax benefits of incorporating or forming an LLC. Similarly, business that are incorporated are looking to...
View ArticleBusiness Licenses
Many states and local jurisdictions require a business license before a company starts to do business. Conducting business without the proper license may result in fines, notices and the inability to...
View ArticleNew Businesses Need Guidance
It’s not easy to start a new business. Navigating business law, formalizing your business structure with the Secretary of State, opening a new bank account, getting loans, and hiring can be...
View ArticleBusiness Tip: You ask, We answer…
We often get questioned: “What’s an RA?” An “RA” is an abbreviation for “registered agent.” It is a mandatory “agent” of the corporation or LLC who is officially designated at the time that...
View ArticleWhat's in a brand?
Forming a corporation or LLC is one step in the development and protection of a brand. Protecting your company name with the Secretary of State in which your corporation or LLC is formed does not...
View ArticleWhat is a trademark? What is a copyright?
Many people often confused copyrights and trademarks or use them interchangeably when they actually protect different things. Copyrights typically protect original works of authorship such as novels,...
View ArticleSmall Business Is BIG News
Receive 50% OFF an online press release distribution from PR Newswire* MyCorporation.com has partnered with PR Newswire to offer you a fantastic deal! Gain traction in search engines, capture online...
View ArticleFour Ways to Completely Ruin A Skype Interview
Our CEO Deborah Sweeney wrote her Four Tips for Skype Interview Success over at the Forbes Blog last week, so we decided to write a response looking at the four ways to utterly ruin a Skype, or other...
View ArticleMyCorp Survey Results Revealed!
Last month, we conducted our first ever MyCorp 2012 Survey for Small Business with five quick questions on the state of small businesses in 2012 and beyond with questions that focused on consumer...
View ArticleO is for Operating Agreement
This week on the ABC’s of MyCorp, we’re focusing on the letter “O” for operating agreement. State laws are fairly lax when it comes to operating agreements – a handful of states require that an...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: Benefit Corporations
One of the main reasons we chose to start this blog was to help explain the facets and aspects of business that typically get overlooked. To help us do this, we decided that, every Tuesday, we are...
View Article5 Google+ Marketing Tips for Your Small Business
Your small business only needs to maintain a presence on Facebook and Twitter, right? Wrong. Even though Google+ can seem like an afterthought in social media, ignore it and you’ll miss out on an...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: Professional Corporations
Welcome to our weekly business basics post! This week we decided to explore a specialized legal entity called a professional corporation (PC). Now most of those who know a little bit about corporate...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: ‘Doing Business As’ Names
A ‘Doing Business As’ name is one of the most important parts of a business, but far too often we hear about businesses choosing to put off filing for a DBA until they are a bit more established....
View ArticleV is for Venture Capital
Venture capital is a bit misunderstood due to the press venture investments often receive. It seems like every week or so the news is covering some start-up that raised an inordinate amount of venture...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: Business Licenses
This week in business basics, we chose to look at a topic that has regularly confused some of our customers – business licenses. Business licensing can be a bit of a tricky topic because, quite...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: A Closer Look at Registered Agent Services
If you’ve been following our Business Basics series, you’ll know we’ve already covered registered agents, and briefly explained what it is they actually do. However, people still had questions about...
View ArticleBusiness Basics – Trademarks
Business Basics started out as a way to educate would-be and current entrepreneurs on the basics of running a business, and has slowly morphed into a place where we can try to tackle some of the most...
View ArticleBusiness Basics – Copyrights
Protecting your intellectual property is a vital part of protecting your business. Your intellectual property will essentially define your brand – the very element of your business that consumers...
View ArticleBusiness Basics: S-Corporations
Incorporation is one of our specialties, and many of our clients come to us because they want to incorporate their business. After all, incorporation helps protect you in the event of a lawsuit, and...
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