Running an in-house raffle/sweepstakes - How do we do this on our own?

Wanting to offer a contest for customers who purchase from us. Seemed simple at first.. buy a course from us and you are entered and prize will be drawn x/y/zzzz. In looking over contest rules with facebook, youtube, etc..it's rather vague. In looking at legal websites, they seem to imply that the Government is going to tell me how to run my business and not let me give things away to paying customers? Is that correct?

I just want to run an in-house contest, just for paying local customers. I don't need anyone else involved, not the govt., nothing...how do I go about this? We want to offer an Iphone X as the prize.

I've seen sites that flat-out disagree with one another..some say you manage the contest, you set the rules, don't have to award unless min. number of participants, etc. while some say no way to all of that. Very confusing.

I live in California. What is the loophole here so I can run a sweepstakes/contest/raffle as an incentive for people to purchase from us?

5 Ways To Sell Your Prom Dress And Make Major $$$

Once prom is over, there's really nowhere else to wear that floor-length, sequin-covered gown (even though you convinced your mom otherwise). Make some of that money back by selling your dress to the next round of prom-goers.

Once prom is over, there's really nowhere else to wear that floor-length, sequin-covered gown (even though you convinced your mom otherwise). Make some of that money back by selling your gown for the next round of prom-goers.: 5 Ways to Sell Your Prom Dress and Make Major $$$ © Getty 5 Ways to Sell Your Prom Dress and Make Major $$$
Here are all the places you can sell your prom dress online in exchange for fast cash.

1. eBay
Yup, your mom's favorite bargain spot is a great place for selling literally anything, including prom dresses. You can download the eBay app on your phone and post from there. Shoppers will bid on your gown and send money straight to your PayPal account.

2. Depop
Put your prom dress, shoes, purse, jewelry – literally anything – up for sale at Depop. Everyone from bloggers to vintage dealers use the app to sell their best pieces. Download it yourself and start selling.

3. Poshmark
Everyone loves to surf Poshmark for style inspo, so it's the perfect place to get rid of your old prom dress (or clothes from last season). Here's how: get the app (for FREE!), upload a pic to your closet... and you're done! Just wait for someone to buy it. Plus, they supply a pre-paid label, so shipping is easy.

4. Tradesy
List your dress by designer on Tradesy for quick cash. Plus, when you make a sale, they'll send you a pre-paid, pre-addressed shipping kit. The money goes right into your PayPal account or debit card (minus a $7.50 commission) and BOOM – you're done.

5. Facebook
There are countless Facebook pages for buying and selling, and even ones specific for prom attire. Around prom time, people start searching for quality second-hand dresses. Just post a few pics of the gown with your desired price and wait for the DMS to roll in.

Hello!

Hey everyone! My name is Paul Cusa and I run an office building in Monmouth County, NJ. I took over this family business about three years ago and have been doing pretty well since but recently found out that I will be losing one of my largest tenants later this year. To prepare for this setback, I am looking for new ways to both bring my business into the future (some things are a bit dated around here) and also to attract new tenants. I came to this forum looking to connect with other small business owners and entrepreneurs in order to try and gain any insights I can into ways to accomplish these goals. I am most interested in learning what I can do to make my office Suites rental building stand out from the many others and also to appeal more to people looking to rent spaces. Since this forum is full of small business owners and entrepreneurs (my main consumers) I figured it was the perfect place to start! So, my questions for all of you reading this are...

When shopping around for office space, where do you look? Websites? Papers? Radio? Billboards?
What things have/ would draw you to a certain space/ building?
Have you even seen a space and thought you had to have it? If so, what attracted you to it?
How important is the community of your office building to you? example: How important is making friends/ connections at work?
Can you think for any unique things that an office Suites manager could do to attract new tenants?

I ask these questions because I have been entertaining the idea of organizing office happy hours/ holiday parties, setting up a break room complete with couches and television (and possibly even a small pool table), etc and would like to know how important these additions would be to the consumer (tenants).

If you have ANY insights at all, positive or negative, I would love to hear them!

I Need help to promote website in USA

Hi, I have a Product reviews site for the USA and providing reviews on different products like indoor exercise bike reviews, electric lawn mower reviews, and health product reviews. But I am facing problems to promote the content. I am bit confuse how to get backlinks from usa website because i am in India

WordPress confusion

Here is what I am pulling my hair out about. I need to do a redo on my main website. I plan to do it using WordPress. I also want to change...

Paying dividends to myself

Background

S-Corp, filing 1120S
Paying myself a wage and dividends from net profit.
Never been a C-corp, so no P&E or AAA concerns.
Doing taxes myself via TaxCut.

Two related questions:
1) Where are the dividends reported on the 1120S?
The software led me to put it on Sched K, line 17c.

But on closer inspection, That is for "accumulated earnings and profits" which I thought didn't apply to me.

Lacking that, I don't see anywhere else to put it.

2) The dividends from Line 17c are to be reported on a 1099-DIV.
TaxCut doesn't generate one of those that I can see.

When I go to input that data into my personal taxes, it asks what kind of distribution this is.
Dividends are normally taxable, but in this case they are previously taxed. How do I enter the 1099 info so they are not taxed again?
The instructions say to just read it from the 1099, but of course I don't have one.

H&R Block says they don't answer business tax questions, only personal. ??!??

Thanks for any direction on this,
Brad.

What information would you like to receive along with a quotation?

Hello everyone,

Not sure if I'm writing to the right place, but still, want to hear your ideas on something.

I have a small web design company. In order to improve the price quote I send to my customer, I would like to include some useful information with it.

My question is what information would you like to receive a price? Something that can "push" you to order the service if the price is right?

The workflow process? Another customer review? Some kind of guarantee? Maybe some statistic how website increasing the trust of potential customers?

All your feedback is much appreciated.

Thank you.