Posts From Matthew C. Keegan
11 Improvement Tips to Ready Your Home for Sale
If you’re about ready to sell your home, you’re likely familiar with the usual tips to stage your home for potential buyers. Things like removing clutter, improving the home’s frontal appearance, and fixing broken light fixtures are a given.
How to Sell Your Home by Owner
You’ve decided to sell your home. Instead of working with a real estate agent, you plan to sell it on your own. Done right, you stand to save as much as 5 to 6 percent in broker fees, a significant chunk of money no matter the cost of your home.
Tax Time: Under the Deadline
Your taxes are done and filed, right? Oh, if only that were true!
Beach Rental Vacation Deals and How to Get Them
Unless you plan your vacation a year in advance, your chances of finding a beach rental vacation deal are slim at popular destinations. Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, Coronado Central Beach, and Hawaii’s Kauna’oa Bay are among the most popular beaches in the country, with demand far outstripping availability, thereby inflating vacation rental prices tremendously.
Retire Early: You Can Make it Happen
It can happen. You can leave your career, retire, and enjoy a number of good years before you shed this mortal coil. A lot of Americans work past the “normal” retirement age of 65, either because they must or perhaps because they want to. Others leave early because of health matters.
Making Money the Flea Market Way
You’ve seen them near where you live and have likely shopped at one: flea markets. Typically, they’re outdoor markets where second-hand goods are bought and sold. The term is derived from a French term “marché aux puces” for a market that sells used goods that might contain fleas.
Loan Shark or Fair Lender?
An individual that loans money to another person for an exorbitant fee is sometimes known as a “loan shark.” Unfortunately, the term is often misused to describe legal lenders that charge rates that are above what most of us think are reasonable.
Pay Up: How to Collect on Debt Owed
As a small business operator, your business lives or dies based on your income including your receivables. As long as your income is above your expenses including your payables, you’re in good shape.
Build Your Business Credit Step by Step
Tweet It is important that if you run a business that you also build your business credit separately from your personal credit. Your business credit rating can help you obtain
Business Coach: Do You Need One?
Tweet You need a business coach. At least that is what businesses coaches tell small business owners. A business coach is an individual that can help you with your sales,
Coupon Processing: How it Works
Tweet Consumers still clip coupons, navigating through the Sunday newspaper for cents off on many of the items that they buy. Billions of dollars of savings are realized each year
Moving Money With ACH Payments Processing
The Automated Clearing House or ACH is a network banks use to electronically process payments. ACH payments processing involves tens of billions of transactions with a total value of $36.9 trillion in 2012.
Clothing Inventory Reduction Done Right
Too much inventory in the store and in warehouses can be a problem. This is especially so when that inventory is clothing where quickly changing seasons require that inventory be moved sooner rather than later.
E-invoicing Solutions For Businesses
The quest for a paperless office is nothing new: as far back as the 1960s, businesses were looking at ways to transfer data electronically. Those limited and complex systems of yesteryear are gone, replaced by far easier to use and sensible systems for remitting purchase orders, invoices, payment terms and other documentation.
Credit Card Processing Services: How it Works
If you accept credit cards, you’re working with a processing service to ensure that the consumer or client’s account is charged and that you receive your payment.
