by Steve Kowalski | Jun 18, 2026 | Informational
A Fort Myers restaurant owner called me last year after getting a notice from the IRS. He’d missed a payroll tax deposit by four days while dealing with a family emergency. Four days. The penalty was over $800 on a $20,000 payroll. He didn’t know the...
by Steve Kowalski | Jun 12, 2026 | Informational
I spent nine years at Paychex. I know exactly how payroll pricing works — and more importantly, I know how it gets presented to business owners in a way that obscures the real number until the invoice shows up. If you’re a Fort Myers small business owner trying...
by Steve Kowalski | Jun 12, 2026 | Informational
Electing S-Corp status is one of the most popular tax strategies for Fort Myers small business owners. The math is straightforward: profit that flows through as distributions avoids self-employment tax. For an owner earning $150,000, that can mean saving...
by Steve Kowalski | Jun 12, 2026 | Informational
I want to be upfront about something: this post is about my experience inside one of the biggest payroll companies in the country. I spent nine years at Paychex — started as a Payroll Consultant, worked my way up to District Sales Manager. I worked with thousands of...
by Steve Kowalski | Apr 30, 2026 | Informational
A company intranet is a private internal network. Usually cloud based, this setup is designed to increase employee engagement because it allows people to communicate, share knowledge and collaborate on work-related tasks in real time no matter where they are. There...
by Steve Kowalski | Apr 15, 2026 | Informational
It is too late to ban your employees from using AI altogether, nor should you necessarily want to. Its capabilities can allow them to accomplish tasks with speed and efficiency hitherto barely imagined. As a tool, it can turbocharge productivity, much as computers...
