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Jesse Schoberg

Actionable advice for remote team building or web development projects. Including: remote team recruiting and outsourcing, domain selection, project specifications, technology selections, agency selection & management, etc.

Founder of DropInBlog and LJ Host.

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I Will Give You Advice on Your Web Development Project From Concept to Launch.

I have managed 100s of web projects from concept to launch. I can help with everything from: Domain Name selection and acquisition, Web Hosting technology decisions and backup solutions, Web Technology selection (html5, css3, php, RoR, .NET, Symfony, jQuery, e-commerce software, etc etc), Project Specification, Project Budgets, Team Selection and Recruitment (local, domestic outsource, global outsource), Team Management, Timelines & Milestones, Launch Strategy, Adwords Campaign Management, Internet Marketing SEO / SEM Strategy.

I Will Give You Advice on Remote Working and Digital Nomad Optimization

I can help you make your business fully location independent. I can explain the process of transitioning to an expat lifestyle. The basics of the tax options and benefits. How to train your clients work only online with you. How to setup payment processing for your projects. How to find places to live and social circles abroad as a digital nomad or expat. I can teach you how to travel for extended periods while working.

I Will Give You Advice on Outsourcing. Managing Agencies & Remote Teams.

I have 17 years of experience recruiting and managing expert remote team members via UpWork and other sources, maximizing efficiency and reducing cost.

I also founded a Digital agency and have completed 100s of projects and can help you select and manage a digital agency and be sure they are using the best practices and ensure a successful project.

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Jesse Schoberg answered

Accountants - what are the benefits of creating an LLC and electing to be taxed as a S-corp?

I am not an accountant, but I do have a good understanding of this concept.

It works like this. If you are self employed there is a slef employment tax on all your income of 15%. This essentially goes toward social security and Medicare.

So let's say you make $100k in profit that means it's $15k in self employment tax.

If you instead become and LLC and file as an S-Corp then self employment tax goes away and is replaced with social security and Medicare on "wages" only. The company then pays you a "reasonable wage" of let's say $30k in this case, and then pays the other $70k out to you as "dividends". The $30k is subject to social security and Medicare which comes to a little under 15% with all things considered (~$4500) and the dividends are not.

This creates a rough tax savings of $10,500.

(Talk to your accountant for exact numbers and advice for your situation, this is just the basic concept.)

Here are some more resources on the subject:

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Business-Taxes/How-an-S-Corp-Can-Reduce-Your-Self-Employment-Taxes/INF22938.html
http://www.incorporatecalifornia.com/scorptaxes.html

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Excellent experience talking with Jesse, I'm going through a transition period with buying an ecommerce business and Jesse gave me direction in terms of SEO, outsourcing, paid traffic and some conversion rate optimisation. After speaking with Jesse I have a strong game plan in terms of moving forward. Will highly recommend speaking with Jesse to grow your business.

Kai Law Source: Clarity

Jesse's vast observations, wisdom and experience around building and scaling remote teams were revelatory for where we're at right now in our rapidly growing business. His tips around effectively using Upwork for recruiting and managing remote team members in Eastern Europe were extremely insightful.

Grant Charge Source: Clarity

I had a wonderful call with Jesse. We talked at great length about the learnings he's had with a couple of his other web-related businesses. This helped put me on the right path for mine. It's so great to have somebody (1) Understand my challenges and (2) Give me solid, actionable advice. This call alone saved me dozens of hours of research!

Dustin Overbeck Source: Clarity

Jesse is your guy when it comes to prototyping, building and marketing software products. He was able to provide in-depth answers to my questions concerning maintaining multiple existing software products and marketing them to an audience.

Sergey Shlykov Source: Clarity

Jesse was able to assess my challenge quickly and refine some of my ideas how to get started with minimal effort while being able to expand the solution to add even more benefit to my client. Much appreciated.

Chris Dietrich Source: Clarity

Member since August 2014