Alicia Sisk Morris CPA | Madison County

14 Oct What are you passionate about and can you make money doing it?

Posted at 16:16h in General Business Tips by Alicia 15 Comments

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Before you step off into the land of self-employment (part time or full time) you need to fully assess what assets you have (social assets or material assets) and how they might help you fulfill your dream. According to Steven Schussler author of the book...

28 Sep Start-Up to Growth-Stage – Now What??

Posted at 21:06h in General Business Tips by Alicia 17 Comments

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According to Fortune.com article Transitioning from a start-up to growth-stage Company written by Glenn Soloman there are four stages to a company as they move into the growth phase. A start-up will move through these and possibly more stages as they hit their growth spurt....

28 Sep Investment Capital for the Start-Up Companies

Posted at 18:13h in General Business Tips, Uncategorized by Alicia 7 Comments

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According to Noam Wasserman’s book The Founder’s Dilemmas… “To Survive and grow, start-ups need human capital, social capital, and financial capital. Core founders who lack any of these three often try to attract co-founders or hire employees who can provide what is missing. Sometimes that works....

17 Sep Short Survey

Posted at 15:39h in Business Tax, General Business Tips, Individual Tax, Non Profits by Alicia 0 Comments

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In an effort to continue to improve customer service and to help learn about future needs of individuals, families and businesses, we welcome you to complete a very short (2 minutes) survey. It is completely confidential. Should you be interested, I am raffling off a...

15 Sep Skills – Teachable or Intrinsic?

Posted at 19:27h in General Business Tips, Uncategorized by Alicia 6 Comments

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Skills you CAN teach: According to Inc. article “Train Employees to be Exceptional: 5 Rules” companies spend billions of dollars a year on training. Much of that training is wasted effort according to sales guru Duane Sparks. Here is his list of training principles: Teach Skills not...

15 Sep Executive Titles (or Roles) – Does it really matter?

Posted at 19:14h in General Business Tips by Alicia 4 Comments

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When your company is a small start-up organization it may not matter if you are called the “owner” or “president” or “CEO” or even “Chief bottle washer” (I jest). However, with time and company growth the company title does make a difference. According to The...

08 Sep Team Building and Hiring A-Players

Posted at 22:10h in General Business Tips by Alicia 4 Comments

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When forming an employment team you have a lot of decisions to make. For the big picture view of where those future team members can come from I look to The Founder’s Dilemma. The author states that “Core founders have many options for where to...

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14 Oct What are you passionate about and can you make money doing it?

28 Sep Start-Up to Growth-Stage – Now What??

28 Sep Investment Capital for the Start-Up Companies

17 Sep Short Survey

15 Sep Skills – Teachable or Intrinsic?

15 Sep Executive Titles (or Roles) – Does it really matter?

08 Sep Team Building and Hiring A-Players

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