Lesson #8: Legally Setting Up Your Business
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This lesson goes over all of the legal stuff that you need to consider when starting a cottage food business.
Here are the topics that I cover in this video:
- Why wasn’t this the first lesson?
- Health/ag department permits & zoning requirements
- Business licensing: sole-proprietorship or LLC?
- Do you need a business bank account?
- Accounting basics
- What you need to know about taxes
- Should you get liability insurance?
This is the 8th and final lesson in Forrager’s free mini course. If you have not signed up for the course and would like to see the other lessons, you can sign up here.