HOW TO: Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet, her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook.

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Perhaps you have been considering the idea of incorporating your business, but haven’t exactly made the time in your daily calendar or you just aren’t sure when is the best time to do so.

When should you incorporate? There is no time like the present, and the simple answer is: right now — right when you’re mulling over the possibility. After all, the sooner you incorporate or form an LLC, the sooner you can start reaping the rewards of incorporation; the potential tax savings and legal protection.

But there are a few other considerations that may influence the timing of your decision. Read more at mashable.com

Learn Sustaining Wealth Building Tips From William R. Patterson

William R. Patterson CEO of The Baron Solution Group Will Be the Featured Guest on Your Passionate Business Blog Talk Radio Show

William R. Patterson, CEO of The Baron Solution Group, is ranked as one of the top business motivational speakers in the country by Ranking.com. His company has the distinction of being a Top 100 Minority Business Entrepreneur (MBE). William is a three-time award-winning lecturer and international best-selling author who uses his trademark approach, THE BARON SOLUTION™, to coach, train, and motivate small business owners, executives, sales professionals, and investors. He has shared the stage with billionaires, presidential candidates, and Fortune 100 CEOs. You can tune in August 19 at 7 PM Central/8 PM Eastern when Kim Beasley, host of Your Passionate Business Blog Talk Radio show, interviews William about his business passion and the “Seven Millionaire Success Habits.” Read more at yourpassionatebusiness.com

The Secret to Building a Stronger Business

What are the key factors that make or break your business?  Your product or service? Your customers? Capital? Just plain luck?

Sure, those are all important. But I’d argue that ultimately it comes down to people, and more specifically: you. As chief executive, you impact every aspect of your business.  Even when you delegate, your personality and decisions influence everything. It stands to reason that leaders who are psychologically in tune — meaning resilient, agile, and aware — are not only more effective, they also bring an unmatchable competitive advantage to their businesses.

How can you make that happen?

Many leaders — even those who run businesses with people-centric cultures — tend to prefer a straight-ahead, hit-the-ground-running, just-make-it-go approach to managing people. The alternative I recommend is an inside-out — rather than outside-in — view of managing people. When an employee makes a mistake or a bad decision, your first question should be “Why did he do that?” not “What can we do about it?” In the long run, this more psychologically savvy management tactic pays dividends. If you want to motivate someone, you better understand first what motivates her. Read more at www.bnet.com

How to Run Your Entire Business Using Free and Low Cost Web Apps

Software as a service (SaaS) and all things related to cloud computing have grown enormously popular for small business use of the last few years, and why not. Many of the services needed to run today’s businesses can be acquired for little of no cost and allow even the tiniest of start-ups to do things once only achieved by much larger organizations.

Access to online tools from virtually anywhere opens up markets, expands access to vendors and talent and makes collaboration something more easily done, even with internal teams.

The list below is a round-up of some of the tools available today. It’s conceivable that organizations could run their entire business with little more than a web browser. Read more at www.openforum.com

Are you Unemployed? 5 Tips For Starting A New Business

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov) released their information about the unemployed for July 2010 and unfortunately the numbers did not improve. Both the numbers of unemployed persons, at 14.6 million, and the unemployment rate, at 9.5 percent, were unchanged in July.

This is alarming because it basically means that the status for the unemployed did not improve. Can a solution be created that would help improve the numbers? What can be done for the unemployed to improve their situation? One thing that can be done is to show them how to start a business whether it is online or offline.

A few more statistics were:

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult men (9.7 percent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (26.1 percent), whites (8.6 percent), blacks (15.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.1 percent) showed little or no change in July. The jobless rate for Asians was 8.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted. In July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was little changed at 6.6 million. These individuals made up 44.9 percent of unemployed persons. Read more at yourpassionatebusiness.com