Logo

Go with the tree.  I like the concept of the rings of a tree too.

Names

putting in the selections for checking.

Revise

Stop Candice from filing for corporate names.

Third Eye

In business the one major lesson is to always hire people who cover your blind spots.  Mine is the little details about accounting and taxes.  Met with Apex CEO this morning.  Expensive but will let me focus on the core things to get this thing going.  In addition we talked about doing sales and marketing training for his clients.  He suggested I make the corporation name broader.  Louis & Clark, Claim your potential.

BeneTrend

Went with Benetrend.  Reviewing investment plan options for the business.  I never knew that in a profit sharing program you could put away (if your that profitable) $250,000 into your personal investment plan while deducting the $250,000 from the profitability of the business and reduce taxes.  No one teaches this stuff!!!

Blood

Life blood of business is money.  Had Guidant and BeneTrend fight for the right to convert a portion of my IRA into penalty free cash for my business setting up a "c" corporation around it.  This has been legal since 1974 but nobody knows.  Google them up.  Avoid the banks.  Fund yourself.

Crushed

Called a small local agency and tried to shoot past them in getting help with some marketing communication things.  They said their minimum was $25,000 in billings a year.  They are sending some reccomendations of places I could go to get help.