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I did not stumble into providing legal support for small businesses. I chose it.

If you ask most small business owners how things are going, they will tell you about revenue. Maybe expenses. Probably whether they hit their numbers last quarter. The profit and loss statement has become the default answer to a much bigger question. I understand why. But if the P&L is the only measure you are using, you are missing most of the picture. The Client Who Came Back There is a particular kind of win that does not show up anywhere in your financials. It happens whe

The fall busy season has a way of arriving before you are ready for it. One week you are in the relative quiet of August, and the next you are fielding calls, closing deals, and wondering where the last three months went. Labor Day is the unofficial starting gun. Here are three things worth doing before it goes off. Pull Out the Business Records Checklist and Actually Use It Earlier this year I published a fresh-start checklist for organizing your business records. If you rea