If you know us at all, you’d probably guess that the old “Greed is good” mantra never held much water with us. Not only because greed is Ew!, but it just doesn’t have a place in the small business owner’s life. You don’t start your own home-based online retail business out of greed. You do it because you…
Why We Disappeared…and Why We Came Back
Merry Christmas! …oh wait, that happened already. Happy new year! …shoot, that one too. We’re not too late for Valentine’s Day, right? Just kidding. We know what day it is. We also know (all too well) how long it’s been since we last posted on this blog. Yikes. Sorry about that. Where Have We Been?…
Give Your Online Business a New Year Sales Tax Check Up
This guest post comes courtesy of our friend Jennifer at TaxJar. The New Year is the perfect time to evaluate your business processes, figure out what did and didn’t work last year, and aspire to greater things! One of those business processes that can be perfected if you devote a little time to it is sales…
Tame Your Business Chaos with TEAMWORK
Ever feel like your projects are managing you (instead of the other way around)? Find out how The Bottom Line team has tamed the chaos with Teamwork. Some people hate having lots of balls in the air. But I get energized by them. That’s why I love…L-O-V-E…Teamwork. [Tweet “I get energized by having lots of…
Why WPCurve Saves You Time, Money and Sanity
Have you ever tried to move a photo or make a change in the sidebar of your WordPress site that caused the whole page to look… well, wonky? If you use WordPress as a blog or even as an e-commerce site, you know how frustrating it can be make little adjustments and then have to…
Why We Chose WP Engine for Our Webhosting
Yes, we have been there. When you first start your business, you try to preserve your limited startup capital. Unless you have an angel investor with deep pockets, you do everything on the cheap. You look for someone on Fiverr to maximize your SEO. You hire a goat herder in Timbuktu who moonlights to…
Point of Sales Systems for Online Businesses
Unity, harmony, and teamwork are important. In the movie, Drumline, Devon, a young black drummer from Harlem, learns how important it is when he is given a band scholarship to a southern college in Georgia. The band’s motto was, “One band, one sound.” One of the pivotal lines in the movie is when Devon’s drum…
Understanding How Much It Is Costing You to Get Paid: Merchant Fees
If you sell widgets, which you buy wholesale for a dollar each and retail for four dollars each, you make three dollars on each widget you sell, right? When you try to balance your accounts at the end of a particular month, you compute the costs of your wholesale widgets. You bought 2000 widgets…
Summer Business Planning: Prepping for the BIG PAYDAY Called 4th Quarter
“Summertime, and the living is easy.” Perhaps, Gershwin is taking it easy, but time is a’ wastin’ if you aren’t starting to prepare for end of the year profits. Retailers estimate that 40% of a typical business’ income is made in the final quarter of the year. Because of that, summer business planning is important….
VAT Tax Updates + Tools for Digital Product Sales
If you sell digital products overseas, the European Union (EU) has passed updates to the VAT tax that will affect you and your accounting. If you are unfamiliar with the VAT, here’s a down and dirty overview. VAT stands for Value Added Tax. In this system of taxation, goods and services are taxed at each step…