The Bloom Blog

If someone asks you "how's business?" and the best answer you can give is "pretty good, I think," we have work to do. Running a business on gut feel is a strategy that works right up until it doesn't. Financial...

Every once in a while I get a new client who's been running their business for years without any real financial infrastructure. No accounting system. No separate bank account. Tax prep once a year from a shoebox of...

Nobody wants to talk about recessions until we're in one. And by then, it's too late to plan. So let's talk about it now. I've been doing this long enough to see a few downturns, and the businesses that survived them...

I love my clients. Truly. I also spend a non-trivial amount of my time chasing them for information they promised me weeks ago. So in the spirit of saving us all some headaches, let me share a few things that make my...

I know it's tempting as a business owner to classify all of your workers as independent contractors. I mean, I understand. You avoid paying income taxes, social security and medicare taxes, and unemployment taxes. This...