We have created a step-by-step roadmap that can help you become fully fundable, even ahead of your established competitors. Our map starts by guiding you to check the information provided by your state’s Secretary of State office. We then provide a logical progression to help you establish all the necessary components for a fully fundable business. We have listed our favorite solutions, some of which are affiliate links. These links do not cost you anything extra, but they do reward us for sharing the great solutions we have found. Once you complete all the steps, you will be fully prepared to build business credit with the best of them. If you already have a solution in place for a particular step, you’re good to go. If you have questions about the quality of a solution, click here for guidance.

You may have used the letters LLC in your name with the Secretary of State but now you need to make it official with the IRS. This is the part that sets up your EIN #. You do NOT need to pay anyone to do this for you. You can definitely do it yourself… but do you trust yourself to get it right on your own? NOLO can be used for – Starting and Running Your Business, Employment and HR, Intellectual Property, Non-Profit, Debt and Credit Repair, and Willmaker.com to round out the legal startup without the huge costs!

Okay, you are setup and have an EIN – you are probably ready to take calls! But wait, does the Secretary of State need my phone number? Address, yes (you need to make sure that all this info matches everywhere) but phone can be established now without a lot of backtracking. Phone.com does a good job of giving you all of the things you need without costing too much or giving you a bunch of extras that your small business will never use. Easy setup too.

We will have a little more back office to do in a minute but how are you gonna make all of that money without a way to receive it. That merchant processor needs to be accessible and work hard to provide options that can keep your cost to do business down to a bare minimum. Kastenberry does that for you. We have great contacts there and they will have all the great ways that we do to make sure you get the sales income you have created in a timeline that works for you. Very helpful to be able to pay the bills on time.

You have for sure heard of the next suggestion but when you are first starting out – you do not need to hire a bookkeeper and you do not have enough transactions to be bookkept. Let’s consider QuickBooks as the starter for bridging the gap between the beginning and needing a full time office staff to cover internal accounting. It could not be easier to operate and your accountant will thank you at the end of the year as well.

Not near as much fun but there is a definite buzz about business insurance. I have a few connections and contacts that can get this policy out to you as a business owner fairly quickly if you don’t have one. Keep these things in mind – when you pick your own price, you cut insurance away from yourself to get to that price. Make sure you are working with an agent that asks you questions about your business that makes you think about your liability needs…not a cookie cutter policy because in the end you could be very sorry for saving $20. Enter your info in the form and choose business insurance and we can let you know who to work with.

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