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What is Small Business Saturday?

Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after U.S. Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year.

First observed on November 27, 2010, it is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature big box retail and e-commerce stores respectively. By contrast, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local.

Small Business Saturday UK began in the UK in 2013 after the success of Small Business Saturday in America.

Small Business Saturday UK is a grassroots, non-political, non-commercial campaign, which highlights small business success and encourages consumers to ‘shop local’ and support small businesses in their communities. The day itself takes place on the first shopping Saturday in December each year, but the campaign aims to have a lasting impact on small businesses. In 2014 Small Business Saturday UK will take place on Saturday December 6th.

Small Business Saturday is a celebration of small businesses across the UK, both on the day and beyond. Small Business Saturday encourages consumers to “shop local” and support their local communities, as well as giving small businesses a great opportunity for visibility and promotion.

According to research undertaken by campaign supporter American Express in the 24 hours following the UK’s first Small Business Saturday, just under half (48%) of UK consumers were aware of the day of which, over half (57%) shopped at a local, independently owned business.

Senior politicians led by the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Ed Milliband; Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne; Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable; Chuka Umunna, the Shadow Business Secretary and Matthew Hancock, the Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise, all took to the streets to encourage consumers to ‘shop local’ and support small businesses.

Small Business Server - What is Google Compute Engine?

Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure.
There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance.

Google Compute Engine offers many capabilities

Create virtual machines with a variety of configurations

• Launch a standard boot image based on Debian, Windows, or other standard images.
• Create a 64 bit x86 Linux-based virtual machine (VM) instance. Google Compute Engine offers a variety of machine types that you can choose from for your instances.

Maintain and store data in block storage

• From a VM image, mount persistent block storage (persistent disk) that maintains state beyond the life cycle of the VM instance. Data on persistent disks are retained even if your virtual machine instance suffers a failure or is taken offline. Persistent disk data is also replicated for additional redundancy.
• Attach non-persistent local SSD storage for extreme low latency, high IOPS, and high throughput. Local SSD is optimal for scratch data or large, high-performance databases.

Manage network access to your virtual machines

• Use your virtual machines alone or connected together to form a compute cluster
• Connect your machines to the Internet with a flexible networking solution that offers static and ephemeral IPv4 addresses for your instances.
• Use the built-in load balancing service to distribute heavy workloads across many virtual machines.
• Automatically scale your virtual machines in times of heavy or low traffic.
• Use an easily configurable firewall to set up network access to your instances.
• Create an internal network of virtual machines or set up access to external traffic by setting up customizable firewall rules.
• Connect your VM instances to each other and to the Internet with our fully encapsulated layer 3 network. Our network offers strong isolation to help protect your instances from undesired access.
• Locate other instances in your project using DNS lookup of VM names.

Use a variety of tools and OAuth 2.0 authentication to manage your virtual machines

• Access your virtual machine instances through the Compute Engine console, RESTful API, or through a simple command line tool.
• Take advantage of OAuth 2.0 to authenticate to the RESTful API to create and delete virtual machine instances, disks, and other resources. Also, leverage OAuth 2.0 to seamlessly integrate with other Google Cloud services such as Google Cloud Storage.
• Use service account identities to authenticate your instances to other services, and remove the need to push keys into VM instances.

Note: Google Compute Engine does not guarantee 100% uptime, so you should take steps to make sure that your service can easily regenerate the state on an instance should an unexpected failure occur. If you do not, your service will be adversely affected if your instances fall offline. For more information, see tips on designing robust systems.

Tackling Small Business Taxes

Tackling Small Business Taxes
November 9, 2014

Q: What’s a good way to get a handle on small business taxes?


A: While you should have a good CPA on your team, every business owner needs to have a good understanding of the fundamental business tax rules to plan and operate their business.

Though the IRS may be the agency everyone loves to hate, they only manage the tax laws and policies that Congress passes. To its credit, the agency provides owners and the self-employed much-needed guidance to tax procedures and requirements without those confusing “Gov-speak” terms. Their special Web site, www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/ is an authoritative place to give you a tax smarts tune-up.

A section called “A-Z Index for Business,” for example, covers a tremendous amount of tax territory and includes much of the site’s most useful information. This is where you’ll find information on online learning and educational products, recordkeeping, employer ID numbers and selecting a business structure.

The advice and information under “Starting, Operating, and Closing a Business” is helpful for most types of small businesses. If you have employees, you’ll find resources on hiring, employment taxes and wage reporting requirements. Learn about business tax credits and estimated taxes. The all-important “Business Expenses” section defines the types of costs you can and cannot deduct from your taxes.

For the self-employed and independent contractors, there’s a full section that covers filing requirements, when a tax identification number is necessary, a listing of special publications and forms, and other valuable information.

For information on business taxes in the state of Texas, a good place to start is the web site of the Texas State Comptroller, www.window.state.tx.us/. Here you can find out if your business is subject to the Texas franchise or sales and use tax, calculate what your franchise tax might be, apply for your sales tax permit online, file and pay sales tax electronically, and where to call for help.

For employer information on who must pay, how to file and how to pay Texas state unemployment insurance taxes visit the Texas Workforce Commission web site, www.texasworkforce.org.

To learn more, attend SCORE’s Small Business Tax Workshop on November 19 at the Kingdom Builders’ Center. Presented by Gregory E. Vernon, CPA, you will receive up to date information on taxes and can meet one-on-one with a mentor to discuss your unique situation.