Here are the first 3 steps we recommend that will allow you to set your business up for success:

1. Open a separate bank account (yesterday) in your personal name and start using this to accept all of your income (assuming that most of your payments are coming in an electronic format).

2. If you’re able, have this account be a Visa/Debit combo account so you can use the Visa portion for all of your expenses (ones needing a credit card). Or if you can use one credit card for all your business expenses and keep a different one for your personal expenses.

3. The main thing here is to start separating your business expenses and income right from the beginning. Even if you have to pull out almost every cent that goes into the “business” account to use personally and add money from your personal income to pay for expenses etc. The habit that this creates will be one of the biggest things you can do when starting out. And save you the potential of big issues with the CRA or IRS if you are ever audited.

This is just an overview of what you’ll find in our Starter Package.

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