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Clifford Benjamin’s “Help Us to Remember” Holiday Prayer
It's Monday the 20th, as I put this together, and many of our Central Florida clients and friends are gearing up for a very different kind of holiday week.I'm very aware that while the holidays are a time of joy for many, they are just as often a time of pain for a...
How Your Central Florida Business Can Fight Inflation
Whether you like it or not, you’ve most likely found yourself in a fight against inflation. Somebody hikes prices on your supplier and suddenly your supplier has no choice but to increase the price on you. Then you have no choice but to raise the price on your...
The Infrastructure Act and Your Central Florida Business
Blink, and we're already into December.Which also means… 2022 is right around the corner.Are you ready?The reason I put this so starkly is that you and I have less than 30 days left to make a tangible difference on your taxes (business or personal).For your business...
Year-End Business Tax Strategy for Central Florida SMB Owners
There are many of our clients for whom this time of year is like their version of the Super Bowl. Some Central Florida businesses are earning 30-50% (or more) of their yearly revenue in this one month.Others ... well, this is a normal month -- except of course for all...
Clifford Benjamin’s Thoughts on Being Thankful in Difficulty
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I think we can agree that Charles Dickens’s famous lines ring true when looking back at 2020 and 2021 (though “best” might seem like a stretch).With employees shifting their worlds to make room for new priorities,...
Central Florida Business Owners: Beware the Sales Tax Nexus
If your Central Florida business sells a lot online, then we’re coming into the most wonderful time of the year.And this year, your customers will probably shop your website (and elsewhere online) EARLY in order to bypass all those supply-chain snafus. Cha-ching for...
Max Refunds Express’s Rundown of the 5 Basic Business Entity Types
The shape of your business affects your future and when I'm talking about the "shape," I of course am referring to your Central Florida business entity type.Did you know that you CAN change that after the fact? Depending on which entity you are switching to, the...
Employee Retention Strategies for Proactive Central Florida Bosses
Your employees are happy, right? They’re never going to leave you ... right?They’re not looking for another Central Florida job ... uh ... right?You know what the answers are: Maybe, wrong, and I sure hope not.Sooner or later, the advantage will swing back to you, the...
How Central Florida Businesses Can Build a Quality Prospect List
How’s your client/customer list faring these days?If you’re like every other business around you, you’ve got some churn happening. People move, change jobs, experience a shift in financial circumstances … the list goes on. Even in predictable economic times (remember...
How Central Florida Businesses Can Raise Prices Without Losing Customers
Are you watching your COGS these days?(I, ahem, hope you know what those letters stand for, because if not ... well, then we should DEFINITELY talk. 386-257-1040 )Has it gone up?You're probably not alone given what kind of signals the economy is sending these days.In...
Using an IRS Accountable Plan to Maximize Deductions for Your Central Florida Business
Any of you Central Florida business owners remember those halcyon days when you could "talk a little business" with somebody while traveling ... and then you got to write off the whole getaway on your taxes?Even if that ever really happened, that ain’t today. Now, the...
Central Florida SMB Owners – Don’t Panic About The Business Supply Chains
Remember when the monster cargo ship Ever Given jammed the Suez Canal? After the Givenhad been stuck just five days, almost 400 other freighters were backed up waiting to pass through the Canal. Experts began predicting temporary shortages of everything from exercise...
