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By Jean Murray, About.com Guide

    A Guide to Selecting a Business Type

    You are considering starting a business and you are wondering what legal business type you should use. Many people will give you advice. Attorneys will tell you to incorporate because "corporations are safer" (whatever that means). Friends will tell you horror stories about being a sole proprietor. Others will say, "LLCs are best" based on their own experience. How do you know what to do?

    In this seven-day course, I will send you an email each day, discussing the types of business and the benefits and disadvantages of each. By the time you get done with the course, you should have a firm grasp of the differences and be headed toward making your decision, based on your own situation, and facts, not opinions. Ready to get started? Great, let's go! BEFORE YOU SIGN Up: I want to be sure you receive the newsletters you have signed up for. Be sure to configure your spam filters to bypass any messages with a from address that ends in "about.com" (ex: newsletters@about.com).

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