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Fitting a business into your life plan - Q & A

Bianca has a life planning question about how to make her business work into her life.

Rich Sloan: But right now we have Bianca out of Miami.  Welcome to our show, Bianca.

Bianca:   Hi, thank you very much for having me.

Rich Sloan: A pleasure.

Jeff Sloan:   So, how can we help you?

Bianca:     Well, my question was is I have two kids, both small.  One is four and the other is two.  I have a husband who's a firefighter, so he's not home all the time.  He's actually gone for about 24 hours, and I work full time, but I'm also trying to run my business.

Rich Sloan: Oh, you --

Bianca:   (Unintelligible).

Rich Sloan: -- so, you have the bug.  You have the bug.  That's what -- what is the business?

Bianca:   It's incorporating new businesses.

Rich Sloan: Okay.

Bianca:   I form corporations. 

Rich Sloan: Okay.

Bianca:   So, how do I actually make that grow into something where I can be able to juggle all these things in my life and also have a business?

Rich Sloan: Well, are you a lawyer?

Bianca:     No.

Rich Sloan: No, so -- okay.  so, you're just doing the filing of the corporate papers?

Bianca:         Yes.

Rich Sloan:  Yes.

Bianca:   I just do the registration part.

Rich Sloan: Right.

Bianca:   I don't have to give advice to anybody.

Rich Sloan: Right, right, right.

Bianca:   I convince others to see a CPA or a lawyer for that.

Rich Sloan: Right.

Bianca:   I just do the legwork.

Jeff Sloan:   Are you interested in reaching a broad market place, or are you --

Bianca:   Absolutely.

Jeff Sloan:   Yes, okay.  Well, I think the Internet --

Bianca:   I would be willing to do anything.  It's just how do I really go about doing it?

Jeff Sloan:   Well, I think the Internet is the key.  First of all, you know, it's interesting.  I think the StartupNation community, there are so many people in the StartupNation community itself.  So, you should take advantage of that.

Rich Sloan: She already has, Jeff.

Jeff Sloan:   Okay.  So, that's a perfect start.

Rich Sloan: I've seen her there, yep.

Jeff Sloan:   But search engine optimization, that's really the key.  If you've got a website that talks about what it is that you do --

Bianca:   Yes.

Jeff Sloan:   -- you need to become really skilled in search engine optimization in order to drive traffic to your site.

Rich Sloan: And we've got an article at StartupNation.  Actually two or three articles at StartupNation.com about search engine optimization, and how you can get very high search rankings when people want to incorporate.  It's a perfect solution, Jeff, for Bianca.