Posts Tagged ‘tutorials’

Steps to incorporate a business in Philadelphia (or elsewhere)

Last month, I described the process of dissolving the Technically Media general partnership, so I wanted to close the loop by quickly sharing our process for incorporation. Mostly, this was a lesson in paying for a lawyer — doing it (mostly) right is worth paying. But I also wanted to share a few lessons I [...]

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How to migrate a WordPress.com blog to your own WordPress hosting

I’ve done this enough times to figure out how to do it without screwing everything up. Suppose you start a project on a free WordPress.com, and, as it grows, you want to move it to a self-hosted platform version of WordPress, like I did with this site and NEast Philly and my thesis and others. [...]

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How to choose a credit card for my small business

Over at Technically Media, I had a bear of a problem for a few days trying to figure out how we could get a company credit card. We had no credit. We were a new business. Plus, there were three of us, and we wanted all to have equal footing. What was more, I struggled [...]

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How to dissolve a partnership and what to do next

The three of us who founded Technically Philly dissolved our partnership at the end of last year. But it was good news. Moving away from the general partnership we launched in early  2009, we’ve incorporated as an S-Corporation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for better protection against liability, losses and for better treatment by the [...]

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How do I choose a payroll services company for my business

When I am unsure about something, I tend to over-indulge in the research. So, when my two colleagues and I decided that, despite our size, we thought it was worth the cost of hiring a payroll services company to withhold taxes for Technically Media from the very start, I knew I’d be indulging. In the [...]

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PC users: How to use MS Paint for quick, easy screenshot selections

Anyone publishing to the Web needs to accept the importance of a catchy image, graphic or photo. The color can spruce up a site — bringing in word-resistent readers and making something simple seem more design friendly — and affect readership. But many average PC users out there blogging — or even those just looking [...]

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