Tag Archives: “LLC”

Managing Personal/Business Finances

I pretty much use only 1 credit card for all of my personal expenses and 1 credit card for all of my business expenses. If I can swipe, I’ll swipe instead of using cash. It’s just so much easier to manage especially with online account access and statements. My main card is a rewards card so even though it’s not much, I’m still getting a little bit back. When the monthly billing date comes around, I simply pay the statement off using electronic transfer from my checking account. This makes my personal expenses incredibly easily to manage and lets me import everything into Quicken (I may move to Quickbooks, but Quicken is enough for now).

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My Business, It’s Official

Well I’ve finally gotten my business venture officially registered as a New York State LLC so now I’m the owner of my own company. Admittedly, I have no clients yet, but I’m working on it ;-). I’ve been putting off work getting the business launched during the past month for various reasons, but I’m moving along again at full speed. I just spent the entire night (5 hours or so) thinking about and reworking the website to present information about my services differently and also changing some prices.

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Fall Break and Delays

Well, my business venture is falling behind schedule. I was holding off on sending out the LLC registration form until the website was more near completion, but it’s taking a while. Working on a tight budget is forcing me to do everything myself, down to every single technical detail. I’m beginning to think I would be better off if I contract some of the stuff for the website to a third party so I can get the business side running. Most of the website’s frontend has been finished, I’m now tinkering with the backend. But I’ve sent out the LLC form anyway, still have to set up a merchant account, business banking account, and digital phone line. Down to mostly logistics.

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