Shipping & Mailing
The United States Postal Service recently launched its Commercial Plus service, which offers volume discounts for businesses that do a lot of shipping. We mean A LOT. If you ship 6,000 or more pieces of Express Mail per year, you can get a volume discount of 14.5%. If you ship 100,000 or more pieces of priority mail, you’re eligible for a 7% discount. To qualify, businesses must use a USPS-approved postage system.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Help Your Business: Car Rentals
Car Rentals
To get the best rate on cars, try Kayak.com and Hotwire.com, which scour dozens of sources to find the best local rates. Zipcar and Hertz offer car shares. For airport parking, LongTermParking.com is a national database of coupons for discounts at parking lots close to airports.
To get the best rate on cars, try Kayak.com and Hotwire.com, which scour dozens of sources to find the best local rates. Zipcar and Hertz offer car shares. For airport parking, LongTermParking.com is a national database of coupons for discounts at parking lots close to airports.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Help Your Business: Professional Services
Professional Services
Cash may be king, but 2009 may see the resurgence of bartering. That’s how dog trainer Cassera got "free" accounting and legal work done. "The economy is bad, but so are dogs," Cassera says. Luckily for Cassera, both his lawyer and his accountant had unruly pooches. In return for getting the pets to behave, Cassera received advice on branding and logos and help on his estimated taxes. If a more formal agreement appeals to you, U-Exchange and ITEX are just two of many barter sites that help businesses find suitable bartering partners in any state. Remember: You’ll usually need to pay taxes on the fair-market value of the goods and services exchanged via barter.
For good rates on legal basics, such as incorporating or developing a trademark, you might try LegalZoom.com. To form a limited partnership, for instance, you answer a series of questions online about you, your partners, and the business. LegalZoom’s staff then creates the necessary forms and files them. The economy package for a limited partnership costs $150. For the true DIYer, Nolo offers free templates of documents you need to create trusts, wills, and business partnerships. It also offers upgraded services, where attorneys help file your paperwork once you submit it online.
Cash may be king, but 2009 may see the resurgence of bartering. That’s how dog trainer Cassera got "free" accounting and legal work done. "The economy is bad, but so are dogs," Cassera says. Luckily for Cassera, both his lawyer and his accountant had unruly pooches. In return for getting the pets to behave, Cassera received advice on branding and logos and help on his estimated taxes. If a more formal agreement appeals to you, U-Exchange and ITEX are just two of many barter sites that help businesses find suitable bartering partners in any state. Remember: You’ll usually need to pay taxes on the fair-market value of the goods and services exchanged via barter.
For good rates on legal basics, such as incorporating or developing a trademark, you might try LegalZoom.com. To form a limited partnership, for instance, you answer a series of questions online about you, your partners, and the business. LegalZoom’s staff then creates the necessary forms and files them. The economy package for a limited partnership costs $150. For the true DIYer, Nolo offers free templates of documents you need to create trusts, wills, and business partnerships. It also offers upgraded services, where attorneys help file your paperwork once you submit it online.
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