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139: Small Business Taxes – Diane Gardner

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Diane Gardner – Tax Coach 4 You

Small Business Taxes are a walk in the park for this guest. Diane Gardner is an expert tax coach, Quilly award recipient, and best-selling author whose proactive planning approach gives clients a leg up on Uncle Sam and helps them dodge the tax bullet. Diane saves small business clients between $5,000 and $50,000 in as little as 60 minutes!
Her tax coaching sessions have resulted in a combined savings of nearly $500,000 to-date — hard-earned profits small business owners would have given to the government by overpaying taxes.
Leaving no deduction or credit unexamined, Diane ensures professionals like you pay the least amount of taxes allowed by law.
As a licensed Enrolled Agent, Diane prepares returns and helps taxpayers nationwide maximize profits and tax savings. She is a Certified Profit First Professional, QuickBooks Pro advisor, an Accredited Tax Preparer and has elite certification as a Tax Coach.
Diane is the co-author of the best-selling books, Stand Apart and Why Didn’t My CPA Tell Me That? She has also authored three other books including her newest, Stop Overpaying Your Taxes! 11 Ways Entrepreneurs Overpay and How to Stop it Now!

Visit Diane at TaxCoach4You.com

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Small Business Taxes – Diane Gardner

137: Content Marketing Strategies -Tom Schwab

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Tom Schwab -Content Marketing Strategies

Content marketing strategies are abundant but do you know what works best for your business? Welcome Tom Schwab to the rescue!

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business with an Inbound Strategy. He led the growth of Goodbye Crutches, a Direct to Patient Private Pay eCommerce Business, from a regional player to a national leader in under 3 years. An expert in Inbound Marketing, Tom helps high potential small companies sell better than Amazon by using an Inbound Strategy.

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Content Marketing Strategies with Tom Schwab

135: Profit Hacking Author Steve Daar

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Steve Daar – Profit Hacking

Profit Hacking author Steve Daar is an expert at driving, converting, and monetizing traffic. He’s managed over $1.3 million in online advertising spend working with Fortune 500 companies, and has been an entrepreneur since completing his undergrad degree.

He’s the founder and CEO of Conversion For Good, a conversion optimization agency that works exclusively with mission-driven businesses and non-profit organizations.

In December 2014, his first book, Profit Hacking was released. The book has drawn positive reviews from bestselling authors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and marketers.

Pick up Steve’s book on Amazon or visit the website: ProfitHacking.com

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Profit Hacking – Steve Daar

134: Weekend Business Plan – Ellen Rohr

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Ellen Rohr -The Business Makeover Expert

Ellen Rohr – The Plumber’s Wife turned Business Makeover Expert®

Once upon a time, Ellen got involved in her husband’s company after his partner died unexpectedly. Boy was she humbled! It seemed like lots of money was moving through the company, but at the end of the month there was never any money left. Thankfully, Ellen found terrific mentors, savvy contractors who taught her how to keep score in business, how to put a simple business plan together and how to make money.

Ellen started Bare Bones Biz, a venture capital and consulting company in 1995 to help folks of all ages turn their big ideas into successful businesses. Ellen is also a successful franchisor, helping launch a plumbing franchise to 47 locations and $40 million in sales in under 2 years. Now, she is the president of Zoom Drain and Sewer, LLC. She is a columnist for Huffington Post, PHC News, and a contributor to many business journals and trade magazines. She provides “in the trenches” insight that business owners can relate to.

Ellen is also the author of four business basics books: Where Did the Money Go?, How Much Should I Charge?, The Bare Bones Biz Plan and The Weekend Biz Plan.

Ellen has generously offered a freebie ONLY for ACT LOCAL Marketing for Small Business listeners. Visit her website and this special link to download The Weekend Biz Plan for free along with 9, count ’em, NINE worksheets to help you jumpstart your business plan. Check it out now!

http://EllenRohr.com/act

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Weekend Business Plan – Ellen Rohr

133: Hiring a Bookkeeper – Joe DiChiara

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Joe Dichiara -Bedrock Bookkeepers Online Academy

I encourage small business owners, especially new business owners to make hiring a bookkeeper one of their first forays into outsourcing.

Joe DiChiara is an accomplished CPA/Entrepreneur with over thirty years of solid business experience. Having worked in the trenches with thousands of small businesses while successfully starting, buying and selling several of his own companies, he truly understands what being an entrepreneur is all about.

After graduating with a B.S. in accounting in 1984, Mr. DiChiara quickly developed strong managerial and problem solving skills in accounting as well as individual and business taxation. Working his way up the CPA chain he opened his first CPA office in 1994, specializing in solving individual and business tax problems including sales and income tax audits, criminal investigations, offers in compromise, collection cases and forensic accounting in litigation matters.

Integrating his accounting skills and technical knowledge Mr. DiChiara developed Pro Bookkeepers Inc. an online bookkeeping system that reduced the time CPA’s need to operate their accounting practice by over fifty percent while reducing client costs by up to twenty-five percent. In 2007 he began teaching his system to individuals with no prior bookkeeping skills with several of his students successfully launching their own bookkeeping businesses.

In 2010 Mr. DiChiara began to develop a new philosophy for entrepreneurial success. His thirteen principles for success aptly called Joe DiChiara’s Entrepreneur Success System is being taught to emerging entrepreneurs throughout the United States. His latest enterprise Bedrock Bookkeepers Online Academy where Joe is once again, successfully teaching individuals a wide range of subjects from basic bookkeeping to starting and running a successful business.

Mr. DiChiara’s goal to create the H&R Block of bookkeeping and have a positive impact on millions of small businesses and individuals that want to work from home. He is a published author, speaker and coach. He has a passion for helping individuals succeed in business and believes that the American Dream is still alive and well.

Find Joe at JoeBookkeeper.com for more information about Bedrock Bookkeepers Online Academy.

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Hiring a Bookkeeper with Joe Dichiara

132: The Results Map – Kimberly Alexander

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Kimberly Alexander – The Results Map

After over 20 years of a flourishing corporate executive career, Kimberly Alexander launched her company as a Transformational Speaker and Mentor for Women Entrepreneurs. Kimberly has worked with several multi-million dollar organizations as an expert in leadership and professional development. Kimberly has worked strategically with Entrepreneurs to identify opportunity and take action for further growth. With a passion to make a difference, Kimberly trains to retreats, individual mentoring and transformational speaking. Her direct, pin pointed approach to learning establishes trust, humor and produces long term results. Kimberly launched her best-selling series in 2014, first with The Results Map: Business and Life strategies to get what you want. Written from her own experiences, Kimberly has guided companies and hundreds of individuals to immediate success with her simple and direct fundamentals.

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Author of The Results Map – Kimberly Alexander