Monthly Archives: August 2023
Why and How to Store Valuable Estate Items
Call it minimalism or Swedish death cleaning, but some people seem to think that you should get rid of as much stuff as possible now so that you can live and die clutter-free. By this logic, if your adult children would rather receive money than tangible property as a Christmas gift, then they would… Read More »
How Can Small Ecommerce Businesses Compete With the Big Guys?
The COVID-19 pandemic did not break us entrepreneurs, but it taught us things about ourselves that we didn’t know. Entrepreneurship always requires you to adapt to changing conditions, and local businesses that were able to pivot to ecommerce during the pandemic managed to attract a new clientele while keeping the old one. Of course,… Read More »
Maryland Escheatment Laws
You have probably heard stories of estate research firms that try to match cash-strapped people with the estates of long-lost relatives who have recently died, and from whom the clients could inherit. The whole business sounds sleazy, from the sense of entitlement required to ask perfect strangers for large sums of money, while striking… Read More »
Can Third Party Logistics Services Help Your Small Business?
Entrepreneurship blogs will tell you that there are $10 per hour tasks, such as printing shipping labels and sticking them on boxes, $100 per hour tasks, such as making a promotional video for your new product, and $1,000 per hour tasks, such as negotiating a long-term deal with a new client. They will encourage… Read More »
The No Surprises Act, Two Years On
It is rare to hear good news these days about the physical or financial health of the American public, or especially about the cost of healthcare, but a recent report by the Urban Institute offers an optimistic view of the No Surprises Act, which was signed into law in 2021 and went into effect… Read More »
