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Money clutter is something that not many people talk about. Business owners will admit to paper clutter, digital clutter, mental clutter, but they rarely talk about money clutter. It’s time that we did because it can at least as debilitating to your business as the other types of clutter (which you also need to deal [...]

Tags: clutter, credit cards, money, overwhelm, overwhelmed, stress, tips

Running a small business, which includes a household (and keeping up with the administrative portion) can get unwieldy in a hurry. If you are starting out and looking for ways to file and organize your business receipts, here are some suggestions: First, be careful not to make this more difficult than it needs to be. [...]

Tags: accounting, bookkeeper, credit cards, Marie Gibson, QuickBooksPro, receipts

Not long ago, one of the women in my mentoring group posted this question on our blog: In addition to your main company, you created Pumpernickel Publishing, LLC.  I recall you mentioning that you separated your publishing company from Emphasis on Excellence, Inc. from a business perspective. I see myself creating a lot of my [...]

Tags: Books, business license, Business-Set Up, credit cards, QuickBooksPro, shopping cart

If you are a business owner and you intend to have your business grow, then you need to be working on the tasks, commitments, and projects that ‘only you can do’ and delegate the rest. You might have a question like this one asked by a Life of E’s member: I would like to start [...]

Tags: credit cards, delegate, delegating, employees, trust, workers

Question: Hi Meggin, What is the easiest way to set up a method of accepting credit card payments from clients? Posted by Jeni Blakely | 7/21/07 Answer: I will do additional research on this, but here is what I did.  I went through Card Service International and my contact was Jessica Hawkins-Olguin.  Her number is [...]

Tags: Card Services International, credit card payment, credit cards