Jo Landers
Business Services
Welcome to Jo Landers Business Services, working to offer a cost-effective way for smaller businesses to access a wide range of support services and solutions.
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Services Include:
- Bookkeeping on a weekly, semi-weekly, monthly or as needed basis at your office or mine for businesses in Easthampton, Northampton, Florence, Hadley & Holyoke
- Quickbooks set-up & bookkeeper training/support for businesses and individuals within the Pioneer Valley
- Specialized bookkeeping support for nonprofits and businesses who work with subcontractors
- Assistance with business planning and financing proposals
- Typesetting (specializing in catalogs, annual reports and other content-rich printed pieces)
- Print file preparation and trouble-shooting
- Print project management, including coordinating with designers, creating print specifications, and obtaining price quotes
- Web site and navigation design and coding utilizing HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Web site redesign and updates
- Web site and image optimization to improve the ability of search engines to find and index your site and your audience to use it
New on the Site
What Does an Employee REALLY Cost?
Use this calculator to see what an employee really costs after benefits and employer-paid taxes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bookkeeping and Quickbooks questions answered, based on search terms people have used to access this site
Pages Most Visited (2007):
Employee vs. Subcontractor: What's the Difference and Why You Should Care
Incorrectly classifying subcontractors can have serious financial consequences for your business. This article provides an overview of the IRS & Massachusetts guidelines for classifying subcontractors, 'best practice' guidelines for maintaining a paper trail to support a subcontractor classification, and a description of the impact not having separate proofs of insurance can have on your own liability and workers compensation policies. Includes links to relevant areas of the IRS and mass.gov websites.
Why you SHOULDN'T use your ISP-provided email address as your main address
An overview of the problems with using your @comcast, @verizon, etc. email address as the main point of contact, especially if you have a business and/or a registered domain name. Includes information on inexpensive ways to have an email address that is fully in your control, even if you don't have a website.
Help Paying for Health Insurance (Massachusetts Insurance Partnership)
The Insurance Partnership has been providing health insurance premium subsidies for the working poor for several years. In July of 2007, when Massachusetts began requiring proof of health insurance, eligibility for those premium subsidies was greatly increased. Includes an overview of the program and links to the Insurance Partnership and Commonwealth Connector web sites, where employees, employers, individuals and the self employed may apply for subsidies and individuals not covered by an employer plan may shop for lower-cost health insurance.
Best Deals:
Checks for Less / EI Printing - Portland, Maine
I've been ordering business checks and check supplies from these people since 1998 (computer checks, deposit slips, one-write systems, etc.). Their online ordering system is clear and easy to use and customer service has been great. Prices are generally at least 10-20% lower than ordering through your bank or other supplier. And unlike many online vendors, you CAN easily contact them by phone, fax or mail as well as using the web-based ordering system.
Local Network Discounts, Coupons & Recommended Vendors
Check out the Local Network page for discounts and coupons from businesses in the Pioneer Valley, as well as a list of recommended vendors I've had good experiences with.
Check out my new site, PioneerValley.info
Get information or find things to do in the Pioneer Valley and send feedback on the town elections project!
Link to my Apartments for Rent, Holyoke, MA page in case you've been directed here by an outdated link from another site. Please follow this link BEFORE you call or email me!