Money
How Small Businesses Can Raise Money, Get Loans, Get Paid
How to Protect Your Small-Business Assets
You’ve spent years of your life building a successful small business. How do you protect your operation from being destroyed by legal proceedings, natural disaster, or even sudden death? The …
5 Tips for Improving Your Accounting Practices
How well you monitor and manage your finances can determine whether your enterprise ultimately succeeds or sinks. That’s why now, more than ever, small-business owners are exploring how time-honored techniques …
6 Tips for Managing a Small-Business Crisis
Serious illness or injury, death, divorce, theft, a natural disaster, or the loss of a major customer can wreak havoc on a small business — and that’s not even a …
How to Renegotiate a Commercial Lease
Rent is often one of a small business’s largest recurring expenses. However, unlike many other fixed costs, a commercial lease is negotiable — even if you’re already locked into a …
4 Ways to Avoid Small-Business Bankruptcy
When a small business hits hard times and can’t recover, its owner may want to consider filing for bankruptcy, especially if the enterprise has significant debt. But bankruptcy is generally …
Lawn Butler Saves Time, Money with Intuit’s Direct Deposit, Pay Card
When Suzzie Douglas started a lawn-care business with her husband, Roy, in 1997, she was simply looking for a way to stay home with her young daughter. Fifteen years later, …
Go for the Gold in Intuit’s Small Business Games
OK, so you didn’t make the Olympic team. (It might have helped if you’d trained like a fiend for the last four years.) But that doesn’t mean you still can’t …
3 Reasons to Start Accepting Mobile Payments
Consumers’ increasing dependence on mobile apps and technologies to handle everyday tasks is good news for small-business owners. Smartphones and tablets not only allow you to take advantage of cost-effective mobile …
How Musicians Are Using Crowdfunding to Ditch Record Labels
Until recently, working with a record label was a necessary evil for most musicians. Few artists had the financial resources to record an album in a studio, market and distribute …
Intuit’s MoneyDue App Turns Your Calendar into a Payment Tool
Billing and keeping track of outstanding invoices can be a struggle for many sole proprietors, particularly freelance creatives and other contractors who bill various clients on an hourly basis. “Many …
How Juice It Up Survived 79 Store Closings
Many people must cope with financial hardships, health problems, personal tragedies, and so on. Small-business owners are no exception. In fact, when these types of challenges occur, entrepreneurs often bear …
4 Money Trends to Watch — and 2 You Can Ignore
Your business can’t do much without money, but your financial health hinges upon far more than just making the cash register ring. Given the abundance of advice, stats, and other …
When Is Bankruptcy the Right Choice for a Small Business?
Small businesses fail for many reasons, including some beyond the owner’s immediate control. It’s a reality of entrepreneurship: Not every new business will succeed, and sometimes even long-standing companies hit …
New Crowdfunding Considerations for Small Businesses
Crowdfunding is a hot topic of late, in part because the JOBS Act promises to bring significant changes to the way it works. Among other things, the new legislation may …
Adam Brownlee on Catching Warren Buffett’s Eye
For many small-business owners, Warren Buffett is a role model for turning an entrepreneurial dream into a wildly successful career. The chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, whose net worth …
