When I decided to incorporate my website business back in 1999 or so, we used a lawyer who walked us through filing all of the necessary forms for incorporation. Once we were officially set up as a corporation, he handed us a big binder and sent us on our way, instructing my husband and I to hold regular meetings, since we were the only people on the board of directors. Huh? In addition to holding meetings, we had to take minutes and document anything. Keep in mind, this was a website business run by me, and now I’m supposed to document a meeting with my husband? To say I was lost…well, that would have been an understatement. I didn’t know that I could find free corporation forms online, or that I could hire someone to fill out and process corporation forms for me, for around $25. Instead, we dealt with it on our own, and I hate muddling through that kind of thing, especially when I really don’t understand it.

Learn from my mistakes, and outsource this kind of thing to people who know what they’re doing!