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Business Entity Searches: Popular States

A business entity search is a tool for finding information about registered businesses within a specific state. Review part two of our series, how to conduct business entity searches in some of the most popular states to start a business.
Jordan Meyer
December 18, 2024
Startups

Top States to Start a Business In

While we have resources to help you start a company in any of the 50 states or D.C., we have some favorites–places that make it cost-effective and low-maintenance to establish a business. Check out our top five. 
Jordan Meyer
December 11, 2024
Startups

How To Conduct a Business Entity Search

A business entity search is a tool for finding information about registered businesses within a specific state. It's usually an online service where users can look up details like the business's official name, legal status, the owners, and the formation date. Review typical and challenging examples when conducting these searches.
Jordan Meyer
December 9, 2024
Startups

Support for VC Funding

Fundraising requires a lot of moving parts and roles. As someone who has supported founders during fundraising from behind the scenes, I'm sharing what I've learned through the process to ensure your business maximizes its capital potential.
Kim Le
November 18, 2024
Startups

How to set up Leads Tracking on Google Ads

This guide focuses on optimizing ads for quality leads and walks through setting up lead conversion tracking for Google Ads, ensuring that you have the tools in place to track user actions and improve your campaign performances.
Jennifer Chu
November 17, 2024
Freelancers

Perks of Being a Digital Nomad in Today’s Evolving Work World

Digital nomad is a trend that came about since the pandemic sent the world into a global remote work experiment. With a portable laptop, wifi, and software, productivity and collaboration remotely is possible allowing for the digital nomad trend to become an acceptable norm for the modern worker. So what does the life of a digital nomad look like?
Jordan Meyer
November 5, 2024
Freelancers

Quitting My Corporate Job with No Plan

Many people can relate to what I was going through–I started in a job I loved with great coworkers at a wonderful, small company, and then I looked up one day a few years later at a completely different company with faces I didn’t recognize and a new boys club I was not a part of (nor did I want to be). After my dozenth meeting, while the newest “Ken” of the team droned on about themselves, I knew I had to get out. No holding on for bonuses or until I had something else solid lined up. For my mental well-being, I needed to leave.
Jordan Meyer
October 29, 2024
Startups

Google Ads Competitor Analysis and Tools

Do you know your competitors paid ad strategies? Here are a few tools to research ad formats, taglines, keywords, and ad spend by by competitors.
Jennifer Chu
October 16, 2024
Startups

Basic Link Building Tactics

Backlinks to websites are like getting celebrity endorsements for your fashion brand. It helps your website be anchored in the world wide web as opposed to floating adrift. Backlinks are your website’s badge of endorsement from others on the internet. Therefore, every website owner needs to employe basic link building tactics to set up their website’s success.
Kim Le
October 15, 2024
Freelancers

The Identity Crisis of the Generalist

When Jenn and I came together to found a company, we had an identity crisis issue. Truthfully, we’re both constantly having that independently. It just became worse when we decided to work together.
Kim Le
October 8, 2024
Personal Finance

Pet Care Profits: How Rover Can Turn Your Love for Animals into a Lucrative Side Hustle

“Aren't you scared?!” is the leading question when I tell folks I get paid to stay in other people's houses and care for their animals. But once they get past their initial shock, everybody seems to realize what a great way to make money this is.
Jordan Meyer
October 4, 2024
Startups

Dealing with Layoffs

Being a founder is hard. Dealing with layoffs as a founder is even harder. Layoffs are sometimes inevitable for startups and small businesses. Layoffs are a correction for a past mistake from leadership. Because of the unpredictable nature of starting a business, it's almost a given some mistakes will be made and sometimes those mistakes are in how the organization has hired.
Kim Le
September 13, 2024
Startups

How a Website Redesign Can Kill Site Traffic

A website facelift is a common project in budding businesses. It’s an opportunity to show off new products or services that are launching or to update the messaging and content to be reach the target audience. Although website redesigns can help give a website a new facelift, if not well executed, a website redesign can kill a website’s organic traffic.
Kim Le
September 3, 2024
Freelancers

How to Win in Blogging 2024

This is part two in our existential crisis (or mid-life crisis) on: to blog or not to blog? The first part was written by Jenn from an SEO expert’s perspective. This is written from my perspective: can we win with and in blogging?
Kim Le
August 27, 2024
Startups

Blog vs Newsletter

Where should one invest their written content? Substack is all the rage now, but blogs have historically been the go-to for a long-term search play. Doing both can spread you thin, so which do you choose?
Jennifer Chu
August 22, 2024
Freelancers

Social Media 101

Hi! This is Sarah, the Gen Z intern. It can be overwhelming with all the social media platforms and understanding what content you should post on which platform. I’m here to provide a brief overview of all the essential social media platforms to help you understand, network, and promote your business.
Sarah Kung
August 21, 2024
Freelancers

Why You Should Always Check Your Tuition Receipt

Don't miss out on vital information that could help save you money from your university or college tuition fees.
Sarah Kung
August 8, 2024
Freelancers

Is YouTube Social Media?

But first, what is social media? What are the defining features of social media, and does YouTube tick the boxes to qualify as a social media platform?
Sarah Kung
August 6, 2024
Startups

Best Local Advertising for Small Business

A good local advertising strategy should consider local SEO, community building, referral marketing, paid ads, and offline channels. Here are 6 local advertising tactics for small businesses.
Jennifer Chu
August 1, 2024
Freelancers

I Don’t Know What To Do With My Life

Life can feel like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Do you start with the edge pieces first? Or do you assemble random pieces? Here are some ways to help you find the missing pieces.
Sarah Kung
July 26, 2024
Freelancers

How To Become a Better Writer: A Strategy for High-Quality Articles

Whether blog posts, personal essays, or Op-Eds, articles are a great way to break into the writing industry, develop a portfolio to showcase your skills, and generate more business. But with the rise of freelance writers—driven by the post-pandemic surge in remote work and AI—how do you create high-quality, unique content?
Maddie McElhenny
July 17, 2024
Startups

Is an LLC a Business License?

Starting a business involves navigating various legal structures and requirements. For many small business owners and startups, the question arises, "Is an LLC a business license?" This blog will break down the differences, benefits, and steps to forming an LLC, and clarify whether you need a business license along with it.
Kim Le
July 16, 2024
Startups

Local SEO for Dentists: How to Get More Patients

Dentistry is highly competitive, and dentists tend to be savvy marketers. If you have your own dental practice, you must implement local SEO best practices to be found by your local audience.
Jennifer Chu
July 12, 2024
Startups

Local SEO Audits for Small Businesses

If your business has a physical location, local SEO audits are critical in getting discovered by people in your geographic region. Here, we go over the ranking factors to improve your visibility in Google Maps and Google Search.
Jennifer Chu
July 10, 2024