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Business
An online shop is a very convenient way to sell your products today. Especially when volumes are small at first and there are not (yet) many clients, it is the ideal option. But once the shop is built, the word…
A business idea is the foundation of every company: everything starts from it. Do you have a thought you have kept pushing away instead of carrying it out? Or have you already started making an idea real? Whatever stage of…
Are you familiar with “holidays” like Black Friday, Black Thursday and Cyber Monday? Black Thursday As a term, Black Thursday is somewhat newer than Black Friday, whose beginnings can be traced back to 1961. On Black Friday, retailers kept moving…
Email is one of the essential communication tools today. Do you check your emails every day too (probably even several times a day)? Would you like to free up 28% of your workday? That is 13 hours if you work…
You have surely heard the phrase “pay yourself first”. But do you know how it works? In his book Profit First, Mike Michalowicz introduces an innovative approach to managing company finances. The core idea is to flip the traditional profit…
Buying insurance seems simple: you choose an insurer, pay the invoice and the matter is settled. In reality, the right contract only becomes clear once you have compared the terms, deductibles and exclusions of several insurers side by side. This…
Guides
Share capital not yet paid in? First, transfer the full amount of the share capital from your personal bank account to the company’s bank account. Usually this is 2500 euros. Use the payment description “Osakapitali sissemakse” (share capital contribution). Enamasti…
For many people, Gmail is the everyday and most convenient way to read emails and communicate. Companies, however, often need name@domain addresses, which are usually not Gmail accounts. So how can you read the email arriving at a domain address…
Marketing
Web hosting Although web hosting is very common in today’s digital society, it still happens that people do not know what it actually is or why it is even needed. Put simply, web hosting lets you take a website with…
By now, hardly anyone asks whether to be present for their clients on social media or not. As more and more people visit one social platform or another every day, a company inevitably has to be there too in order…
Guides
You probably already have a Facebook page for your company? You have made posts, and now it is time to start running targeted ads? For that you need a Facebook Ads Manager account. It is a platform that contains different…
If you want your WordPress website to be more visible in search engines and bring more traffic, SEO optimisation is a mandatory part of everyday site management. Yoast SEO is one of the most popular and powerful WordPress SEO plugins,…
Accounting
Guides
Share capital not yet paid in? First, transfer the full amount of the share capital from your personal bank account to the company’s bank account. Usually this is 2500 euros. Use the payment description “Osakapitali sissemakse” (share capital contribution). Enamasti…
Registering as a VAT payer in Estonia is actually not as complicated as it may first seem. Let us look at how it works and what being VAT-registered brings with it. The right to submit the application belongs to…
If your company has a bank account at LHV, you can switch on an automatic account statement request in Merit Aktiva. There is no more need to import the statement from a file: the import is now done automatically, straight…
A guide to activating the direct connection between Merit Aktiva and Swedbank If Merit Aktiva is the accounting program you use and your company has a bank account at Swedbank, you can switch on an automatic account statement request in…
Connecting SEB bank to Merit Aktiva takes only a few minutes! How do you activate the connection with SEB? To use the service you need a Baltic Gateway channel agreement with the bank. The service is free if you…
If you want to leave your company’s accounting tasks to your accountant, you need to grant the accountant access rights in the Estonian e-Tax Board (e-MTA). This guide gives you an overview of how it works. Granting access rights…
If you want to leave the tasks related to your company’s employees to your accountant, you need to grant the accountant access rights in Tervisekassa, the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (via the eesti.ee state portal). This guide gives you an…
SELF-DEVELOPMENT
The E-Myth should be every entrepreneur’s bible, so to speak. But before we get to the book, I have one simple question for you: Where were you before starting your company? Think about it for a moment. Or if you…
If you are just at the beginning of finding your path, Marie Forleo’s book “Everything is Figureoutable” is definitely worth reading! But if you have already picked up certain wisdoms in life and hold the mindset that every problem has…
Sound familiar? It is pitch dark outside, but you are still in front of the screen? You are sleepy, but there is still so much to do? Sleep deprivation is a serious problem, and one that people quite often ignore.…
Besides reading books, you can also fill mellow evenings with a good film. Here are some recommended films (including picks by Entrepreneur magazine) that every business owner could watch: there is something to learn from each of them. The recurring…
You have surely heard the phrase “pay yourself first”. But do you know how it works? In his book Profit First, Mike Michalowicz introduces an innovative approach to managing company finances. The core idea is to flip the traditional profit…