SDR's Business Basics
Helping small business owners learn the essentials they need to begin, maintain and grow their business, with professional guest speakers who know their subject. More than 50 episodes across six seasons, hosted by Safietou D. Russell, CPA, EA, MST.
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Engagement Workshop
A working session on holding an audience's attention once you have earned it, how owners keep the people already listening genuinely engaged rather than chasing the next new name.
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The decisions that move your tax bill most, and the mistakes that cost the most to fix.
Decrease Tax Liability with a 3-Step Entity Analysis
How to look at your entity structure in three steps and find where tax is leaking out of the business.
ListenCostly Worker Classification Mistakes
Employee or contractor, what actually determines the answer, and what getting it wrong costs once it compounds.
ListenPreparing Your Practice for Tax Season
What to have ready before filing season begins, and which jobs stop being possible once March arrives.
ListenOverlooked Tax Write-Offs
The deductions business owners routinely miss, and the records that make each one defensible.
Listen5 Common Tax Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
The five errors that show up most often on small business returns, and how to avoid each one.
ListenReporting PayPal & Stripe Income to the IRS
Why money arriving through payment platforms is reportable, and what the paperwork actually looks like.
ListenCPA Q&A
Listener questions on tax planning, bookkeeping and audit preparation, answered directly.
ListenCPA Q&A, Part 2
A follow-up round covering the questions that did not fit into the first session.
ListenCash flow, planning and the safeguards that keep a good year from becoming a bad one.
Personal & Business Financial Planning
Building a plan that treats the household and the business as one connected system.
ListenUpcoming Changes to Retirement
Retirement rule changes and what they mean for owners saving through their own business.
ListenSmall Business Cash Flow
Planning cash so the business can meet both its own obligations and yours.
ListenBusiness Banking 101
How business banking actually works, recorded with the team at Relay.
ListenHow to Budget for an Economic Downturn
Building a budget that survives a slow quarter instead of assuming one never arrives.
ListenFinancial Planning for Your Business
Turning vague financial goals into numbers the business can actually be steered by.
ListenFinancial Freedom
What financial independence looks like for an owner, and the routes people actually take to it.
ListenProtecting Your Business
The legal and structural safeguards worth putting in place before you need them.
ListenBusiness Continuity Plan
What happens to the practice if you cannot work for a month, and how to answer that in advance.
ListenBusiness & Legacy Planning
Succession and estate planning for owners, with the founder of The Ambitious Legacy Firm.
ListenFinding clients, hiring help and scaling without creating problems for later.
Engagement Workshop
Social media, lead capture and actually tracking the conversations you are having.
ListenStrategies to Scale
Practical approaches to growing operations, with the founder of Scale Factor.
ListenCreating Consistent Client Flow
How to differentiate a practice so inquiries arrive steadily rather than in waves.
ListenPrivate Practice Marketing Basics
Foundational marketing for practice owners, with the CEO of 5 Dog Digital.
ListenEmployee Handbook Do's and Don'ts
What belongs in a handbook, what does not, and where the compliance lines sit.
ListenExpanding and Delegating Your Business
A short one on handing work over without losing the standard you built.
ListenIdentify Your Superpowers in Business
Finding the strengths worth building the business around, and what to delegate instead.
ListenScale With a Virtual Assistant
Where virtual support pays for itself, and how to hand over the first tasks.
Listen4 Pillars of Marketing
Social, search, ads and email, what each one is genuinely good for.
ListenTurn Your Skills Into a Service Business
Converting professional expertise into something that pays reliably.
ListenD.I.Y. Public Relations
Getting your practice in front of an audience without hiring an agency.
ListenExperiential Marketing
Building the kind of client experience people describe to other people.
ListenThe owner's own capacity, which turns out to be a business variable like any other.
Health & Wellness in Business
How prioritizing wellbeing changes productivity and engagement across a team.
ListenFrom Burnout to Balance
What burnout looks like from the owner's chair, and the specific changes that pull people back from it.
ListenHow Self Care Supports Business Growth
The connection between personal wellbeing practices and how the business actually performs.
ListenFour Powerful Phases of Mindfulness
Mindfulness techniques applied to the decisions owners have to keep making.
ListenUsing LinkedIn to Create a Welcoming Culture
Using the platform to show what working with you is actually like.
ListenThat is a selection. All six seasons, more than 50 episodes, live on Spreaker.
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