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A Financial Systems Check-Up For Your Seminole, OK  Business

A Financial Systems Check-Up For Your Seminole, OK  Business

Your Seminole, OK business obviously makes and spends money. The pluses and minuses add up (you hope) to being able to stay in business, and a look at the books tells you if your Seminole, OK business is doing okay or headed for trouble.What are your books telling...

Roger Ely’s Insights on Reducing Business Expenses

Roger Ely’s Insights on Reducing Business Expenses

No matter how far around the block customers are waiting, in business, only one line counts.The bottom one.That’s why reducing business expenses is critical.Getting a grip on the costs of doing business brings you benefits both short- and long-term. “Cost controls”...

Roger Ely’s Business Negotiation Skills FTW

Roger Ely’s Business Negotiation Skills FTW

Alright Seminole, OK business owners, we’re going to move aside from tax-related things today (though there will be PLENTY to talk about as Congressional plans unfold) ... and circle back into the nitty-gritty of how business works and share with you some business...

Roger Ely’s Insights on Financial Planning for Business Owners

Roger Ely’s Insights on Financial Planning for Business Owners

Last weekin the start of my series on financial planning for business owners, I got a little carried away by all of the talk of "independence." So, I took the opportunity to ask you a simple question:Are you achieving the independence you want in your business?But...

Roger Ely’s Tips for Creating a Business Disaster Plan

Roger Ely’s Tips for Creating a Business Disaster Plan

The past year and a half has been stressful for everybody in Seminole, OK. And I would argue it’s been doubly so for Seminole, OK business owners.The thing is though, these things happen. Quite regularly. Maybe not global pandemics, but disasters in general.So, as the...

Roger Ely’s Tips for How to Raise Your Prices Properly

Roger Ely’s Tips for How to Raise Your Prices Properly

Did you hear the news from last week’s inflation report?Consumer prices increased more than 5% between May 2020 and May 2021.Given the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target, that’s a pretty steep increase.Have you taken a look at your own cost of doing business...

Roger Ely’s Tips for Building a Business Emergency Fund

Roger Ely’s Tips for Building a Business Emergency Fund

Pretty sure I've said this before.I'll likely say it again, too.If there’s one thing the past year has taught business owners, it’s that the "unexpected" can occur at any time.Managing your Seminole, OK business during good times is hard enough; rough times make it...

How To Digitize Your Business by Roger Ely

How To Digitize Your Business by Roger Ely

It seems as if the world is getting drenched in tech. It’s literally falling from the sky (we’re looking at you, rocket boosters).Because there is so much technology around us, it can be easy to become numb to it. We can quickly start to view it as just a “thing”...

4 Next Steps for Business Tax Return Review

4 Next Steps for Business Tax Return Review

This week marks the end of another tumultuous tax filing season.I can’t remember anything like it. With the last minute legislative changes, software update delays, and IRS service issues -- this very well might have been the most disrupted and difficult tax season in...

Roger Ely’s Three Business Tax Penalties To Avoid When Possible

Roger Ely’s Three Business Tax Penalties To Avoid When Possible

With May 17th behind us (though for those in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahama -- this was just another day. June 15th is coming at us fast!), we’re turning towards the planning and optimization part of our calendar.But before we leave taxes in the rearview, let's address...