Category Archives: Small Business
Bringing Your Restaurant Back To Life After The COVID Restrictions Have Been Lifted
After what feels like an eternity, masks are optional in the District of Columbia, and in-person dining is back in full swing. Restaurant owners and their employees are eager to get back to work, and customers are more than happy to dine in, but the financial struggles that the pandemic exacerbated continue to linger. … Read More »
Maryland Legislators Continue Their Quest For Employer-Provided Paid Family And Medical Leave
Even if your children are grown up, you probably remember the go-to topics that you would discuss when your children were small and you met someone else with a child close in age to yours. Depending on the children’s age, preschool routines, toilet training, first words, and adorable gummy grins probably came up frequently,… Read More »
Bowling Alley And Landlord Battle Over Mold Infestation Resulting From Storm Damage
The worst thing about living with roommates is having to argue about whose responsibility it is to clean up messes in shared living areas such as the kitchen. Multiply this problem hundreds of times over, and you will get an idea of how annoying it is for business owners and commercial landlords to resolve… Read More »
Maryland Business Owners, Are You Ready For The Great Onboarding Of 2022?
The Great Resignation of 2021 is yesterday’s news, and in just a few days, it will be last year’s news. For business owners, the new year is not only a time to get all your documents in order so you can file corporate taxes; it is also a time to reflect on what you… Read More »
The New CFPB Rules Are Here: You Can Now Contact Customers About Payment Through Social Media
Social media has hardly improved anyone’s personal relationships, but it has been beneficial to businesses of all sizes. Businesses have benefited from user-generated content that mentions their brands or products, and the popularity of a business spreads even more quickly on social media than it does through old-fashioned word of mouth. During the lean… Read More »
Small Businesses Are Great For The Economy
If you are thinking about establishing a small business, you have everything to gain by doing so, and so does the community around you. As jobs that offer stability and generous benefits packages become harder to find among large employers, many industrious, enterprising people have been taking matters into their own hands and forming… Read More »
What Is The Difference Between A CID And EIN For Businesses?
Many industries have developed an “alphabet soup” of acronyms that make perfect sese to industry insiders but are utterly incomprehensible to anyone outside the occupation. Just listen to two people with federal jobs refer to the federal agencies with which they deal in the course of your work, or try reading your own medical… Read More »
Is It Time For Your Small Business To Pivot Away From Facebook And Instagram?
The feeling of panic was palpable when Facebook and other social media platforms under its control, including Instagram and What’s App, experienced an outage earlier this month. The outage lasted less than a day, but it was long enough to make people realize how much they depend on these platforms to stay socially connected. … Read More »
A Business Law Attorney Can Be The Antidote To Your Entrepreneurial Exuberance
The best business partner is someone whose thought processes line up closely with yours. “Opposites attract” does not usually apply to business partnerships; to borrow an idea from an old Freakonomics podcast, Bert and Ernie might get along well as friends and roommates, but if they embarked on a business venture together, not only… Read More »
What If Facebook Paid All The Invoices Owed To Your Small Business?
If your small business remained profitable during the COVID-19 pandemic which has dragged on for the past year and a half, there is a good chance that Facebook has helped you accomplish this. Social media provides versatile ways for small businesses to connect with customers even before the pandemic hit, and during the long… Read More »
