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E-Commerce: “Physical Presence” Sales Tax Collection
You don’t have to look hard to find the advantages internet retailers enjoy over their brick-and-mortar counterparts — and I’m not just...

Randall Fisher
Mar 13, 20133 min read
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8 Elements of an Effective Business Plan
In our series on starting a business, we have presented some important questions to consider and discussed why the first thing you should...

Randall Fisher
Mar 5, 20135 min read
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5 Steps to Limiting Personal Liability in Business
The LLC and corporation are popular business entities because they limit the owner’s personal liability for actions taken on behalf of...

Randall Fisher
Feb 12, 20134 min read
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Breaking Even: It’s Sink or Swim for Your Business
Great ideas are fun to imagine, design and develop. But in business, no idea is worthwhile if it can’t make money. How do you know if...

Randall Fisher
Feb 5, 20133 min read
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Starting a Business: Ask the Right Questions
In my time away from the office, I chair the Small Business Council of the West Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce. The Council...

Randall Fisher
Jan 29, 20134 min read
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Should my Business be an LLC? A Question for the Great Oz
Determining whether your business should be an LLC (or a Sole Proprietorship) is daunting even with a grasp of the basic differences....

Randall Fisher
Jan 11, 20133 min read
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Postpone Estate Tax Payment to Save the Family Business
What’s the best way to create wealth? If I had a definitive answer, you can bet your margarita that I’d be typing this from a beach...

Randall Fisher
Dec 11, 20124 min read
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The Capital Investment Blues: Unwinding ROBS Funding for a Startup
If you’re considering funding a startup or franchise, then you may already be ready for the huge gamble of turning a 401(k) into capital...

Randall Fisher
Dec 7, 20124 min read
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How Will Estate Tax Changes Affect My Small Business?
Find out by checking out my guest post for Rocket Lawyer’s blog Everyday Law, “How Estate Tax Changes Could Affect Your Small Business.”...

Randall Fisher
Nov 9, 20121 min read
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What should business people do in an election?
I have one word. Vote. We’ll talk again soon. In the meantime, good luck and good hunting. __________________________________________ The...

Randall Fisher
Nov 6, 20121 min read
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Disaster-Proofing Your Business for Hurricane Sandy
Pictured: Not the Fisher Law Office. While neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night can stay us from our duty to stay open, Hurricane...

Randall Fisher
Oct 29, 20124 min read
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Applelypse Now: The iPhone 5 Delay and the Need for Dedicated Product Release
What if Apple’s iPhone 5 release were delayed? Would the mobs of desperate, Android-addled tech-junkies outside the Apple stores turn...

Randall Fisher
Sep 14, 20123 min read
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Don’t Make Your Market Change the Station
Okay, we’re a day late. I could blame my staff for not bothering me enough about it yesterday. I could blame the Ravens and Orioles for...

Randall Fisher
Sep 12, 20123 min read
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GoneDaddy: Remembering Battlestar Galactica & Old Fashioned Conversation
So here I sit, contemplating life and realizing how much it has changed. GoDaddy is gone, at least for now. When the popular webhosting...

Randall Fisher
Sep 10, 20123 min read
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Requiem for a New Coke: The Business of Buzz
I once heard someone, possibly Lyndon Johnson, remark, “I don’t care what they say about me, as long as they spell my name right.” I am...

Randall Fisher
Sep 7, 20124 min read
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A Day of Rest and Reflection
The Fisher Law Office has been open eight years Tuesday. We actually opened the Tuesday after Labor Day eight years ago so we make...

Randall Fisher
Aug 31, 20121 min read
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Mitt Romney’s Private Wealth: Do You Want Your Estate Planning Public?
As Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney prepare to leave the Republican National Lovefest Convention tonight to get back on the presidential...

Randall Fisher
Aug 30, 20124 min read
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Business Image: Could You Manage the Republican or Democratic National Convention?
By now, everyone interested has heard about the little rain delay that Hurricane Isaac forced upon the Republican National Convention,...

Randall Fisher
Aug 28, 20124 min read
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A Business Lesson from Lance Armstrong: Quitting vs. Moving On
Is there a difference between quitting and moving on? Perhaps. If the difference is not one of substance but merely one of spin – what we...

Randall Fisher
Aug 24, 20123 min read
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The Business Sense Underlying Augusta’s Decision to Admit Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore as
If you’re looking for a feminist take on the admission of women into Augusta National, then I’m afraid you’ve clicked on the wrong blog....

Randall Fisher
Aug 22, 20123 min read
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