Small Business Resources

For a small business owner, tax season can be an anxiety-inducing time. Here are some strategies you can use while filing your 2018 taxes as a self-employed individual to maximize your deductions and credits.

As we enter 2019, you’ve likely reflected on your personal resolutions for the new year. But what about your small business? Here, we’ll discuss five key resolutions to make — and keep! — in 2019.

As a small business or sole proprietorship, taxes are unavoidable. Here, we’ll discuss the top three business audit triggers the IRS will be looking for, how to avoid them, and how to prepare for an audit if they’re inevitable for your business.

As we close the books on 2018 and begin to look ahead to 2019, we explore key topics around the new tax code and how it will effect small businesses and steps you can take to ensure you take full advantage of the changes and set processes that will optimize how you manage your small business finances.

The Neat Company has been providing technology solutions to small-business owners since 2002. We love small business and today proudly call over 100,000 small businesses our customers. Each year at Neat we celebrate Small Business Saturday as a way to help drive awareness of and engagement with small businesses nationwide.

Veterans are uniquely equipped with the soft skills needed for entrepreneurship. The leadership, project management, communication, and teamwork skills they’ve developed over the course of their service are invaluable to new businesses. So why don’t we see more veteran-owned small businesses? Over the past several decades, there’s been a sharp decline in the number of […]

The Best Time to Prepare for Disasters is Before They Happen In the days immediately following Hurricane Harvey, the whole world watched as volunteers went from building to building in small private boats to rescue citizens and pets from the dangerous floodwaters. After nearly 40 inches of rain poured down upon one of the nation’s […]

Not unlike the housing market, office real estate is valuable and comes at a steep price. Larger businesses often have the luxury of off-site storage facilities to store their documentation. But for small-to-medium sized businesses, this isn’t a readily-available perk. Read on to find out why and how digitizing your database can allow you to […]

Women make up 38 percent of all businesses in the U.S. but tend to be underrepresented in the business world. The many hurdles they face, especially when it comes to receiving financing, make them have to fight harder than other entrepreneurs to succeed. If you’re a woman in business, there are a myriad of resources for women […]

With the thick of winter approaching for much of the country, there are things SMB owners must do to ensure that the most important aspects of their businesses are safeguarded from the elements. These to-dos vary from region to region and industry to industry. While most people maintain insurance on their home or apartment to […]