How to Fill Out a Business Checking Deposit Slip – It’s a Free For All

Sample of Check Bank's Number

I have found that personal checking deposit slips are a little bit different than business checking deposit slips.  The main difference is that a business checking slip anticipates that you will have a lot more checks to deposit so there is usually many lines for making entries. The example I am showing you below [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Launch Week! Problogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging

Problogger's Guide to Your First Week of Blogging

Problogger’s step by step instructions to success

Darren Rowse of Problogger has come up with another extremely helpful e-book to help you get started and succeed as a blogger. If you are the kind of person who does best with step by step instruction, you want this book. I have always come away [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How Companies Try to Scam Other Companies In Real Life

There are a lot of scams going on all over the place. They seem to come up with something new every day. Here are a few I’ve run into in the last few months.

The other day a call was transferred to my office at work. The person on the line wanted to let [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How to Use Your Computer to Print W2s and 1099s

Apollo Typewriter

I found a nifty little template which costs $9.95 and allows me to print to the IRS approved pre-printed W2s and 1099-MISCs.  It is well worth the cost to purchase this template so that I can use my computer and printer, rather than try and type each form with a typewriter.

I have [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Custom Stamps

Cathy from Chief Family Officer commented to my Thank You Notes and Dollar Stores post and suggested that the most economical solution would be to make my own thank you notes.

Of course, that is brilliant! I love doing creative type things, and even though I don’t have lots of time to spend on [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Thank You Notes and Dollar Stores

One of the things I’ve been striving to do is to send thank you notes to Mr. A’s customers.  I try to watch for them on clearance at the store, and as long as they are blank inside I’ll buy just about any design.  Well, within reason. I can’t buy anything too feminine looking [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Business Ethics – Cash Under The Table?

How do you feel about cash sales?  If you were a self-proprietor, would you find it easy to “cheat” just a little (or a lot) and not report the cash collected from your customers?

I have strong personal feelings about doing that sort of thing. Not only is it not ethical, but there is [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Go For It, Collette!

Collette submitted a question to my Q&A post, wondering how I made the decision to not be self-employed. I responded to that part of the question here, but I felt the other part of her question was going to be too long for the Q&A post and I promised I’d continue it in a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

One Way to Lose Business

I’ll be preaching to the choir since anyone reading my blog is online and knows the scoop. But you might let your not-so-Internet-savvy friends and relatives know that if they are going to have a business website then they need to get back with folks that contact them via their website.

I’m looking for [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Business Checks Ordered

Darn it!  I thought I’d get that great package deal for $34.95 (plus shipping and handling) but as it turns out the catalog I was viewing was two years old!

One of my friends told me she has not bothered to order checks as she uses the BillPay feature provided by this credit union.  [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]