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Practical Advice on Starting and Running a Small Business

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Back when I worked as a lawyer, I answered cold calls from prospective clients who just had their Big Idea. I’d teach them how to take that idea and start their own business.

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The Missed Details Blog

Here at The Missed Details blog, we give easy-to-understand, practical, and strategic advice to folks who want to start their own small business. We point out things that other small business advice blogs tend to miss. And we bridge them all together so that the advice makes strategic sense.

You’ll find our latest blog posts and articles below, but you can also find them from the menu.

For our step-by-step guide on how to start a small business, read our blog posts from the beginning. We tell you what to do right after you get that brilliant business idea that will make you rich and/or change the world. The blog is where you’ll find our strategic advice on the big picture of how to start and run a small business.

Our articles dive deeper into different subject areas. You need to compare web hosting companies and find the best one for you? You need to understand how to pick the best small business bank account for your unique business? Or the best service provider to help you set up your LLC? You’ll find these in the Articles section.

And don’t forget that you can find all the related posts by tags. They’re categorized as: Initial Development, Legal & Finance, Operations, Production, and Sales & Marketing. Every once in a while, we’ll also have pure business advice posts under Entrepreneurship.

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Latest Blog Posts

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Starting and Running a Small Business: The First Full Circle

I started building this website in January of 2021. It took me several months to design the layout and write ...
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Three stacks of coins of unequal height each on the left and right of three blocks that spell out TAX, used to illustrate our tax guide for small businesses

Tax Guide for Small Businesses

Businesses, like people, have to pay taxes. But, unlike people, most businesses have to pay a lot more types of ...
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A paper sign taped to a window that says "Help Wanted," which is something a business would put out if they're looking to hire their first employee.

How to Hire Your First Employee, for Very Small Businesses

Congrats! Your business is finally at a stage where you need to hire your first employee. For some of you, ...
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Latest Articles

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A Small Business’s Guide to Collecting Sales Tax, Use Tax, and VAT

If you’ve read our general article on taxes, you know that a business has to deal with a lot of ...
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Income Tax Software for Small Businesses

In our last article, we talked about how small businesses must pay quarterly estimated income taxes. Then, at the end ...
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A smartphone showing a calculator app sits on top of a hard copy of Schedule 1040-SE which, in turn, is laid atop of a laptop. A pair of glasses rests half on the tax form and half on the laptop. Everything is ready for a small business owner to learn how to calculate quarterly estimated taxes.

How to Calculate Quarterly Estimated Taxes, for Small Businesses

Businesses have to pay income taxes. We touched on this briefly in our overview article on the types of taxes ...
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