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Most businesses start with an idea. It can be an idea on how to make a better chocolate chip cookie or an idea on how to make a flying car. To protect this idea from your competitors, you’ll need the help of an intellectual property lawyer. Finding a good intellectual… Read More »How to Find a Good Intellectual Property Lawyer
Starting a new business is hard work. It’s full of research, and, if you’ve made it this far into our blog, you’ve done your share already. So far, you’ve looked at the viability of your business idea, thought through what type of business entity you want to operate as, and… Read More »Finding the Right Lawyer for Your Small Business
There’s a saying: There are too many lawyers but not enough good ones. So how do you find a good lawyer? Sadly, not even lawyers know the secret to finding a good lawyer. Lawyers who work in a certain specialty might know good lawyers and bad lawyers in the same… Read More »How to Find a Good Lawyer
If you run an online business, you’ll want your own website. To do this, you have some options. But, the option that makes the most long-term sense is to buy the domain name and then rent hosting space from the best web hosting service you can find for your budget.… Read More »Best Web Hosting Service for Small Businesses
If you plan to do business online, eventually, you’ll need a robust website with your own domain address. We recommend that you grab your domain name as soon as you decide on it, but you don’t have to sign up for web hosting at the same time. We believe it’s… Read More »How to Pick a Web Hosting Company
If Google Domains is your domain name registrar, then you can get 100 free custom business emails and create a website for free. You only have to pay your yearly domain renewal fee, which, in most cases, is $12/year. We already showed you how to set up your free business… Read More »Creating a Website for Free, for Nontechies
Usually, to get free business email, you need to sign up with a website hosting service. Some packages include an unlimited number of @YourDomain emails while others come with a handful. Alternatively, you can also pay a small fee to email hosting providers and get your business email that way.… Read More »Setting Up Free Business Emails, for Nontechies
In our journey to start a small business, we’ve examined the business idea itself and think the idea is good and financially sound. We’ve thought about what kind of business entity we should operate under, and we’ve decided on the name of the business. As a part of finding a… Read More »How to Buy Your Domain Name and Find the Right Web Host
So you came up with a great name for your new business, and now you want to grab that domain name before anyone else does. You learn that you buy domain names from businesses called domain name registrars. There are a lot of them, though. Most registrars seem to be… Read More »How to Pick the Best Domain Name Registrar
If you’re the only owner of your business—whether as a sole proprietor, as a single-member LLC, or as the sole shareholder of a corporation—from time to time, you’ll probably find yourself making a personal loan to your business. You don’t really think of it as a loan, though. Because you’re… Read More »The Right Way to Make a Personal Loan to Your Business
