Mastering Business Basics

Everyone wants to do the flashy things when building their business, but the successful owners know that it is mastering the basics that make the difference. The boring stuff like legal formats, tax strategies and organizational duties. We’ll take you on that journey so you don’t crash and burn like those around you.

Mastering Business Basics is a business podcast hosted by Roger Pearson, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Roger Pearson hosts Mastering Business Basics, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  One Word That Eliminates Stress

  Aug 15, 202645 minS1

  Text us your opinion or questions Building a business is a lot of work and more often than not, it involves working 60 to 80 hours a week during the first few years of starting the journey. What is often not talked about is the stress it causes and how that effects all of the relationships with your family members - often with some very negative results. Our guest today, Galen Wilson, is a story teller, but one that has used his journey in life to develop a way to help people deal with that stress and create an even closer relationship with their spouses and peace in their home. I think you will find it very interesting. To learn more about Galen's work, you can find links to all he has to offer at https://www.monumentmethodinstitute.com/ Support the show To learn about all of the small business educational and support options available, please visit our corporate website at https://seagulltechnologies.com To get a copy of my book, "Mastering Business Basics - The Legal, Logistical, and Tax Considerations of Starting Small Business", you will find more information at https://seagulltechnologies.com/books

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  Episode #15

  Episode 15 - Short-Term Rental Mistakes to Avoid

  Aug 8, 202619 minS1

  Text us your opinion or questions One of the things that people always ask me when they're thinking of buying some property, some rental property, is should they put it in an LLC? And the first thing I tell them is, "Absolutely, you have to put it into an LLC," just for liability reasons, because people are sue-happy nowadays. You've gotta protect yourself and your personal assets. But what a lot of people don't realize is it takes two LLCs to totally protect yourself. The first LLC is basically a holding LLC. You either have that LLC buy the property, or if you already own the property, you have to transfer it over to the LLC so they actually hold the title or the deed to the real estate. it doesn't have anything to do with handling the guest communications, bookings or daily operations, or nothing like that. All it does is hold the deed. You're isolating that part of it. Then you just need a second LLC that is the management part, and it actually operates the rental for you. It handles, it handles all the heavy lifting. It, it signs the contracts, if you're advertising it with, Airbnb or VRBO or anything like that, newspapers, wherever you advertise it. it holds all your business licenses. It pays for the insurance. It hires the cleaning companies, everything needed to take care of that rental. Support the show To learn about all of the small business educational and support options available, please visit our corporate website at https://seagulltechnologies.com To get a copy of my book, "Mastering Business Basics - The Legal, Logistical, and Tax Considerations of Starting Small Business", you will find more information at https://seagulltechnologies.com/books

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  Episode #14

  The Seven Times To Adjust Your Withholding

  Jun 23, 202625 minS1

  Text us your opinion or questions Welcome to another edition of Mastering Business Basics. You know, in the last two decades that I've been doing taxes for people, one problem that always comes up once or twice or three times a year is people sit down to do their taxes, and they have this huge tax bill, and they can't figure out why. So I look at their W-2s and say, "Well, do you realize you didn't have any withholding?" Or, "You only had a hundred dollars withheld for the entire year?" And they totally freak out. So this is a subject that a lot of people don't understand, especially since 2020 when they redid the tax laws, and that's something I want to address today. More importantly, I want to go through the seven times when things happen in your lives that you need to redo your W-2 withholding to compensate for them. Links in this episode: https://www.irs.gov/w4 https://www.irs.gov/individuals/tax-withholding-estimator Support the show To learn about all of the small business educational and support options available, please visit our corporate website at https://seagulltechnologies.com To get a copy of my book, "Mastering Business Basics - The Legal, Logistical, and Tax Considerations of Starting Small Business", you will find more information at https://seagulltechnologies.com/books

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  Episode #13

  Learning Life's Lessions w/ Lance Cayko

  Jun 12, 202634 minS1

  Text us your opinion or questions Sometimes the best way to go about building a business is to listen to the journeys of those who have been through the process and what they have learned along the way. Being an entrepreneur is more than just building a business, but even more so about a state of mind. Today's guest, Lance Cayko, guides us through his journey and what it means to do it all while maintaining your perspectives of life. It was worth listening to more than once. You can reach Lance through his business website at https://f9productions.com or listen to his podcast at https://insidethefirmpodcast.com. Support the show To learn about all of the small business educational and support options available, please visit our corporate website at https://seagulltechnologies.com To get a copy of my book, "Mastering Business Basics - The Legal, Logistical, and Tax Considerations of Starting Small Business", you will find more information at https://seagulltechnologies.com/books

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  Episode #12

  To Franchise or Not to Franchise

  Jun 7, 202652 minS1

  <p>Text us your opinion or questions</p><p>Over the last few months, we've discussed a variety of things. We started out with talking about what the three pillars are to build a solid foundation under any kind of business that you want to run. we've talked about your skill sets, how to examine yourself, how to determine what skill sets you need to learn and which skill sets you need to hire out and bring into your organization. <br/><br/></p><p>And we've talked about consumer direct marketing, and that's a way, with no investment, you can a...

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