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Fake or Scam Mailings

Fake or Scam Mailings

Starting a business puts you and your business into the public domain. Your address and information now live online (as a requirement), as do other pieces of information such as when you need to renew with the Colorado Secretary of State, whether you have employees, and whether you have a trademark.

As a result of this required information being public, unsavory companies will have access to your information. These companies send out notices to public companies that have obligations with these public entities. They attempt to have companies pay for services that are either free or low cost.

Take, for example, your periodic report.

Your actual periodic report needs to be filed with the Colorado Secretary of State via its website every year. You receive a notice for it about three months before its final due date. It costs $10.00 to file online. The e-notice comes from the Colorado Secretary of State (e-mail suffix @sos.state.co.us). It has a header that includes the Secretary of State’s name and the website (www.sos.state.co.us). It will inform you that this is an automatically generated email at the bottom, with a contact e-mail address with a suffix @sos.state.co.us.

A scam notice or instruction will be by mail, most often. It will be titled something along the lines of “DATE – Periodic Report Instruction Form”. It will include a processing fee along with the $10 fee. It will request for checks payable to a non-state address (for example, “Workplace Compliance Services”). It may have space for a credit card form. Sometimes, they will have scary wording as well, such as informing you that  you will be shut down.

If ever in doubt about a notice from the Secretary of State, Colorado Division of Labor, or United States Patent and Trademark Office, send it to your attorney or bring it to the SBDC. We can tell you if it is official or a scam.

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[Webinar] QuickBooks Online; 3 Part Series

This series of classes will cover what QuickBooks Online 2020 can do for you. You will learn how to back up your system, navigate through the program, and receive an overview of setting up a company. Other topics include:
  • Managing your checkbook
  • Handling credit card payments
  • Reconciliation of accounts
  • Accounts payable & accounts receivable
  • Analyzing your financials with reports 
This class is perfect for the person who has never used the program or is within their first year of use and is using the online software.

Presented by:

Debbi Allison

Larimer SBDC QuickBooks ProAdvisor Debbi Allison is a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with an AAS in accounting. As the owner of Open Book Consulting she specializes in accounting consulting, QuickBooks Online education and bookkeeping. Her occupational passion is helping business owners to succeed through better understanding and organization of their numbers. Debbi has more than two decades of experience working with small businesses in many different industries.

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Welcome Betina Meyer Pflug

Betina Meyer Pflug

We have a new team member that you’re going to want to get to know.  Please join us in welcoming our newest consultant Betina Meyer Pflug. We are excited to have Betina and the business expertise she brings to the SBDC family!

Betina Pflug is an entrepreneur, a business and life coach, a mother, and a marketing and CRM specialist. She has a degree in hotel management, received her MBA from Rotman School in Canada, and has completed three different coaching certifications, including a specialization in facilitating nonprofits, life coaching, and biopsychology to promote positive mental attitudes for mental and physical wellbeing.

Betina’s entrepreneurial spirit stems from a long family line of self-starters and business owners. Her grandparents first have immigrated from Europe to Brazil during World War II, and her parents having successfully built businesses in Brazil’s fitness and nonprofit industries. Betina’s story is truly one of inspiration and grit. Betina has invested herself in many different sectors throughout her life, ranging from hospitality to nonprofit development, event planning, education, technology, and the food and beverage industry. With each new business venture, she acquired new skills that presently offer high value to whoever receives her coaching. Bringing over 20 years of experience, she shares her expert knowledge in strategic decision-making, marketing, sales, government negotiations, quality control, public speaking, training, and analytics. Her international experience allows her to communicate in Portuguese, German, Swiss-German, Spanish, and English.

Betina’s openness to go after the opportunities that presented themselves to her even in the face of having to start over and rebuild demonstrates her courage and self-efficacy to grow, challenge herself, and always be learning the skills necessary to accomplish whatever goal she orients herself to. This is one of the best characteristics that make Betina an excellent coach because professionals who coach from a place of authenticity understand the effort and mindset needed to reinvent themselves time and time again. Her most recent transition of emigrating with her family from Brazil to Colorado in April of 2016 prove her wish always to innovate.

Everyone Who Wants To Change The World Should Have The Tools To Do So!

Betina’s mission is to help individuals organize their lives and bring presence, enthusiasm, and balance to their daily activities. Using her organizational skills, knowledge of technology, and nurturing healing with energy modalities, she helps her clients and family members invest in their relationships, become more efficient, and find pleasure in everything they do. Consequently, she helps her clients achieve their goals and create a balance between their personal and business lives.

For the past ten years, Betina has also devoted twenty percent of her time to help Nonprofits development. One of her goals is to educate them on becoming more efficient by implementing technology and marketing strategies. Her podcast, Wisdom for Nonprofits, was created in 2020 to highlight proven leaders in the nonprofit sector to share their experiences, knowledge, insights, and best practices with her listeners.

Betina is innovative and authentic in her approach and uses this to tailor her coaching to each individual. Consider Betina as your accountable partner to transform your life or organization.

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