Registering a business without being sold anything
Sole trader or LLC, and what each actually buys you. The paperwork that matters, the paperwork that does not, and the four things an entire industry charges for that the government issues free.
What you can do afterwards
Decide between sole proprietor and LLC on your own state's real numbers, then set the whole thing up in an afternoon without paying anyone for a free federal form.
This class on its own
$19
6 pages · about 25 minutes · PDF
Or take the whole library for $149 a year — this class, every other one, and every class added while you are a member.
Digital download, delivered immediately by email. Non-refundable once the link is issued — the full contents are listed below so you can decide before paying.
Everything inside
What is actually in it
- 01Why you are already a business, and what you are actually deciding
- 02The five words people use interchangeably, and why three of them are not alternatives
- 03What an LLC buys you — and the four things it does not, including the tax saving it does not give you
- 04The four things an industry charges for that are free from the source
- 05The order that wastes least time, and the one step that must come after the entity exists
- 06Six traps, starting with the one that undoes the protection you paid for
- 07The four numbers to take off your own state's fee schedule
- 08The uncomfortable answer nobody sells you
Included free, inside the class
The recurring fee, not the formation fee — the number that actually decides it, and the one comparison articles leave out.
Every class ends with one
The one page to keep
A final page built to be printed on its own and pinned up — the checklist, the numbers, the exact words, and where to verify each of them yourself. It repeats rather than references, because a card that says “see page four” is a card nobody keeps.
What this class will not do
- Tell you what you will earn. Nobody honestly can.
- Motivate you. It is a set of instructions, not a speech.
- Pad itself. It is 6 pages because that is what the subject needs — the last one is yours to keep.
Rates and requirements quoted inside are set by the companies involved and can change without notice. When they do, the class is corrected — and if you hold the library, you get the corrected version at no cost.