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Startup Resource Roundup- July 2009
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Welcome to another issue of the Resource Roundup- when I am not Twittering, Face-booking or chatting it up on Google, I am cruising the 'net, looking for resources that are helpful to me and other creative entrepreneurs. Listed resources will be anything from interesting articles, government regulations that affect small businesses, listing for service providers, and any other tidbit of information that would be helpful to you as a business owner.
Take a look and see if anything catches your eye.
Federal: Internal Revenue Service
The IRS has a very good website that is geared towards small businesses and the self employed. Click Tax Center, to be taken to the main page.
Lastly, the IRS publishes a number of publications that explain the various rules and regulations behind business deductions, home mortgage deductions etc. (NOTE- that I will be posting about Tax Planning and hosting my own Tax Planning workshop for creative businesses in the near future. Stay Tuned ). Pubs (as they are called in the trade) are great sources of information, and interpret the dense book from hell also know as the Internal Revenue Code. If you are not a Code Junkie like me- Pubs will serve you well. Go to the IRS website and search the Pub #s to pull them up: Better yet- here is a link to the complete list
334- Tax Guide for Small Businesses
535- Business Expenses
550- Standardized Deductions
551- Itemized Deductions
583- Starting a Business
587- Business Use of Your Home
SCORE: (From the website: http://scoredc.org)- SCORE, "Counselors to America's Small Business," is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration and is dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide. A national non-profit association founded in 1964, SCORE has over 10,500 volunteer members in 389 chapters across the United States.
The Washington, D.C. Chapter of SCORE has about fifty members, both retired and working, who have significant experience in the ownership, operation and/or management of both small and large businesses in many fields. Members offer free counseling in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Read More: About SCORE: www.scoredc.org.
The SCORE DC website also provides a fantastic page of resources with links to websites that are extremely helpful for all types of small businesses: http://www.scoredc.org/page.cfm?page=links
National Retail Federation: www.nrf.com
Granted I stumbled upon this little gem of an organization because I do a lot of work with the fashion/retail community and I teach in a fashion program; However, this organization has A LOT of valuable information. They are the largest retail trade organization in the world, and if you sell anything, even services, it would not hurt you to visit this website every once in a while. For those of you who are retailers, you might want to sign up for the NRF Smart Brief- basically it is a newsletter that provides all of the top headlines for the retail industry. This comes out daily. Visit the NRF Smartbrief website.
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