Which Entity Should You Choose to Incorporate Your eCommerce Business?

This guest post is brought to you by our friends at MyCorporation. We’re so pleased they’ve provided simpler answers to a very common small business question!

Should I choose an LLC or Corporation? How about a sole proprietorship? And what’s an S-Corp, anyway? With so many legal structures available, it’s easy to feel stumped when trying to pick a formation to incorporate your eCommerce business. Your search for “the one” is now over — we’ve rounded up the most common entities, along with the ins and outs of what each one does, in our quick and painless guide to legitimizing your eCommerce business.

How to write a Kick-Ass overdue invoice letter

We’ve all been there before. You’ve called about those overdue invoices once, maybe twice, maybe three times, and payment still hasn’t been made.

What to do next? Throw up your hands in despair? Give up on it as a lost cause? No way, Jack. Not in this economy.

How to Personalize the Customer Experience: 5 Quick Tips for Retailers

Personalization is one of the most important aspects of retail and one of the biggest industry trends for 2017. The key to building lasting relationships with customers, personalized shopping experiences generate satisfaction and loyalty on the part of the consumer — and increased revenue for the retailer.

How to go from self-employed to successful business owner

Seven vehicles on the road. Ten electricians in the field. One business owner working overtime, all the time…

Such was the norm for L&L Electrical, a versatile electrical services company in Campbelltown, Victoria, and proud owner John Libroaperto.

Proud and successful owner he was, yes – but at a hefty cost in a most valuable currency: time.

Four great ways to absolutely, definitely get your overdue invoices paid

It’s often how you say something that determines whether you get the result you want. This applies in financial services, marketing and even tax collecting.

In one experiment by the Nudge Unit they improved the payment of vehicle taxes by using simple plain language, “pay your tax or lose your car”. In fact HM Revenue & Customs attributes the recovery of an extra £210 million a year from taxpayers by using behavioural insights in its letters i.e. changing the words to influence behaviour.

7 Ways to Get the Most out of Amazon Sponsored Products

With more than 350 million products on Amazon.com it becomes more and more difficult for sellers to get their products in front of the customer. Thus, Amazon’s “Sponsored Products” ads (“Amazon PPC”) are becoming extremely popular among sellers as they offer an (allegedly) easy way to bring their products on the first page. The following tips will help Amazon sellers avoid some common mistakes and get the most out of Amazon Sponsored Products.