Checking the name of a Corporation or Limited Liability Company (LLC)

Before you can start printing up business cards, and promo material you're going to want to ensure that the name you want to use for your Corporation or Limited Liability Company (LLC) is available. The folks over at MyLLC.com offer this as a free service. Here is a direct link to the free name check option.


http://www.myllc.com/corporate-name-check.aspx

My Board of Directors

I feel in our life we all need a board of directors. Mine is composed of friends, business associates, and people like TD Jakes..

Don't Be a Wuss

In tough times, its the boldly innovative companies that are most likely to thrive. -Doug Hall


I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where its been. -Wayne Gretzky

The Circus

If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying “Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday”, that’s advertising.

If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that’s promotion.

If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flower bed, that’s publicity.

And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that’s public relations.

If the town’s citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they’ll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that’s sales.

And, if you planned the whole thing, that’s Marketing.

sites I go to daily

I was cleaning out my favorites today and came up with a list of some of my favorite daily sites



http://www.findfocusgroups.com/

I've been visiting this site for sometime now and have done some really cool focus groups that have paid me anywhere from 50-300 bucks for an hour or 2 of my time. not bad huh.. check it out..tell me what you think. Hope this makes some of you some good side cash.

Digg.com

This site has the coolest concept. Useres dicatate whats on the homepage based on if you dig an article. love it!

http://www.bnet.com/

If you run any type of business this site is a must read. really useful articles and videos you can play in the background at work to get your education on.

Craigslist.org

One mans trash another mans treasure right? my roomate makes so much money on this site. where as i spend allot of money on this site..lol

I'll add some more later over the weekend.

my Favorite tool

Today a client came into the office and asked me what my favorite business tool is. Well it would have to be my 8gig iPhone. i am able to manage bank accounts, my emails, instant messages, go online at a G3 speed, manage store and sync contacts to outlook and gmail Here are some of my favorite apps on this phone.

Pandora radio
Yelp
google earth
NY Times
Around Me
italk
Bank of America
myspace and facebook apps.

i love this phone.

Financing for small businesses

I recently came across this site Business.gov they offer tools and resources to get government grants for your small business. Our government sets aside funds to offer as grants to small businesses. best of all its free.