Marketing & Advertising

Sometimes the best thing to do when facing competition is to raise your prices. I found an interesting take on the Spitzer saga in the Washington Post. Columnist Harold Meyerson writes about high end prostitutes as positional goods.
Positional goods are those commodities that are more valuable than their run-of-the-mill counterparts because a [...]

Legal

Since LLC’s are by far the most popular business organization at the moment. I prepared a few slides.(If you are using a feedreader,you may not be able to see the slides.)

If you don’t care about privacy, you can file most of the forms yourself at filinginoregon.com. It’s straight forward enough to do on [...]

Business Technology

I recently began using google apps for my day job, the aptly titled KevinSpenceLLC. I was looking for a cheap solution for email, calendaring and web publishing. So far, I am pleased with the standard edition.
The standard is free to use and comes with a collection of existing google products(Gmail, pagecreator, calendar, etc.) [...]

Accounting

At the PDXwi event last week, I was asked a very interesting question: Should a home based single-member LLC pay rent to the owner of the home–the same person– in order to avoid any “piercing of the veil” problems.
I found an answer to this problem in IRS publication 587. Single member LLCs are disregarded entities [...]