John Felkins
speaker
3,221 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard yesterday
John Felkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
You need customers.
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I've coached so many people who get hung up on the LLC before they've even made their first dollar.
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You need to get out there and prove that someone will pay for what you sell.
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If you run a lawn care service, you need to get somebody to pay you to mow their lawn.
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If you do pressure washing, you need to find some houses that are green and need to be cleaned.
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If you're a photographer, you need to take some darn good pictures.
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But what about all the separate business from personal stuff?
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What you need to do is go down to the bank, open up a business account.
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This is called a DBA, a doing business as account, like John Falcons doing business as Falcons Roofing or Falcons and Company or whatever.
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You don't even have to prove you already have customers or revenue.
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In most states, forming a DBA is a matter of filing some paperwork, paying a fee, and providing basic information about your business.
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Then get some business insurance, it's not all that expensive, and some basic bookkeeping software like QuickBooks and run your business through that.
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Depending on what line of work you're in, that's generally enough to get started, and it'll save you from wasting a few hundred bucks or more to file for an LLC.
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Not to mention the time you will have wasted, because that's what's really happening.
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Filing the paperwork for an LLC feels like progress, like you're doing something important, but it's actually just busyness.
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It's not business.
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It's just procrastinating doing the real work you really need to be doing.
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Getting customers, making sales, and doing jobs, getting paid, and validating that the market really wants what you have to offer.
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You can always create an LLC later.
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Okay, myth number two, an LLC protects me from everything.
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