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Eleven Secrets to Winning Big in Your Small Business

While it’s an exciting experience to start your own business, you need to make smart choices when it comes to making financial decisions. Its money after all and it’s no joke managing it. If you don’t want crippling debt to be the endgame of your business, you need to be wise about how you spend your moolah. Here are a couple of tips that you can follow.

Set up a Cash Reserve

It can be challenging to get the money to start your business and keep it going until the profits start to pour in. Setting up a cash reserve will let you cover those costs on a temporary basis while you’re waiting for the profit to come. It’s also a safety net whenever there are unexpected taxes, plus you won’t have to worry about debt.

Budget Expenses

money growingOne of the best ways you can run your small business is to keep track of how much money you need for the business break-even and how much you have to spend to keep your business working on a daily basis. It can be divided into four categories – future income, fixed expenses, variable expenses, and paycheck allowance.  It’s important to keep your financial needs and wants to be balanced out.

Pay Taxes

In every business, you need to be responsible for paying the income tax. Be sure to discipline yourself to set aside money. This is important because forgetting to pay your taxes will lead to a pile of expenses you’ll definitely regret in the future (like those many drunken nights in college you probably want to forget badly).

Invest

The difference between spending and investing is that the latter will let you reap the long-term benefits. Basically, when you invest, you spend money to get more money. Just spending your money won’t get you anywhere. Spending on long term investment will let you secure the future of your business.

Realize the Consequence of Debt

wallet in debtA lot of business owners start their business by taking out a loan. While it’s possible to have a plan to pay off all your debts, you should leave your personal debts out of the business since you’ll want to secure a definite financial future with your business loans. Pay off your personal debts as soon as you can so you’ll be free from gaining the business capital that you need.

Keep in Mind the Deductions

One of the benefits of being self-employed is that you know what you can and can’t deduct. Be knowledgeable and do your own research or ask for help from an accountant. Good examples are rent, repairs, and mortgage interest.

Secure Records

You’re running a business so it’s important to keep records and put them where you can easily find them. You should know by now the importance of receipts. There are four reasons why most business owners lose their business records – they weren’t safely kept, they were kept in an unorganized manner, they were kept very organized but got destroyed somehow or they were kept safe and organized in a forgotten place.

Separate Personal and Business Bank Accounts

It’ll be very easy for you to lose track of your cash reserves if you use the same account for your business and personal transactions. So, it is always advisable to maintain two distinct bank accounts. Else, you’ll be working really hard to make everything work perfectly only to find out at the end of the month that you don’t have enough cash left to pay for your living. Separating personal and business accounts will give you the flexibility and freedom to avoid such issues.

Protect Assets

For small business owners, getting the next income requires hard work but it doesn’t put a strong foothold in the future. So if you want to be certain, keep all your personal finances from business creditors or unsatisfied customers. One way that you can do this is to create your company as a completely separate legal entity, like for example as a corporation or a limited liability company.

Say No to Unjustified Expenses

credit card paymentThere are two kinds of expenses – fixed and variable costs. Fixed costs are something that your business will have to endure whether or not you make money. So instead of buying expensive software, for example, try working with free or open-source software. This will let you save a lot of money on your end.

Create and Stick to a Budget

It’s important to know where your money is going. Smart budgeting of your expenses is crucial to foretell some of the expenses that you’ll need and establish plans. Creating and sticking to your budget will let you keep tabs on how much income your business will need to cover all its costs.

Starting a business is no easy feat. And you’re sure to hit roadblocks along the way. But with the right mindset, and observing proper habits, you’ll be sure to win big in your small business.

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