Articles and news about small business bookkeeping
What is a 1099 employee? During the life of most small businesses, every owner might need help producing the deliverables and enlist persons outside their immediate family for help. Now the decision of how the helpers will be paid must be made. Should I pay this person as a 1099 contractor or W2 employee? Should […]
New technology and accessible AI tools are making work easier, even for accountants. See how you can embrace digitalization in accounting and keep your firm as a top competitor.
In 2010 LessAccounting had grown to a size that we needed to hire a person to help with customer support. We’d never hired customer support before and didn’t know how to hire the right person. We did know that judging applicants on resumes is stupid. We didn’t want to hire a “customer support guru” or […]
The word “handbook” might bring back memories of a little book your high school issued that covered things like the student dress code and grade point averages. Or maybe you remember your Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts handbook, which had everything from how to wear your uniform to how to start a campfire. But you’re […]
In 2007, LessEverything was a Ruby on Rails consultancy, and we made our money primarily from building web apps for clients. Steve and I spent most of our days managing clients, developers, and on sales phone calls. We were and still are a global team, distributed across many time zones. When we were on the […]
What is Docracy.com? Docracy calls itself “the web’s only open collection of legal contracts and the best way to negotiate and sign documents online.” To be less vague, Docracy has thousands of contracts you can copy and modify for your own use, then send and have your clients sign electronically. Legal Stuff: Please use a lawyer to […]
In a previous article, we talked about some best practices of business proposals layout and structure, and how to lay them out correctly. This article is geared for small businesses and freelancers who do sales and write proposals. Your proposal should layout exactly what you’re delivering plus the game plan for project management. Your business proposal […]
If you like stories about foreign countries, first-time parenting and entpreneurship you’ll love this interview. I look at the websites of every new signup at LessAccounting, and I’m often amazed at all the cool things our customers are doing. I ran across Natalia’s ecommerce site, CultureBaby, a month or two ago and reached out to her and […]
In a previous article, I talked about how to deal with unpaid/overdue invoices, but outstanding invoices are not technically late…yet. Outstanding invoices are unpaid but not quite late. As a business owner and guardian of the cash flow, you don’t want these outstanding invoices to become unpaid invoices, so let’s figure out how we can prevent […]
In a previous articles, we learned how writing an effective business proposalstarts with setting a clear expectation for a client & how to avoid Common Proposal Mistakes. Let’s continue to dig into this topic. Someone that can write effective project proposals probably learned from their past mistakes in client communications. Here are some of the most awesome […]
