Hiring my First Employee

I think that contracting any work you need done would be the best route to go until you get better established. Paul Boag has a great video on whether or not you should hire an employee. He gives some amazing advice. Check out that treehouse video here http://teamtreehouse.com/library/business/how-to-run-a-web-design-business/growing-your-business/should-i-hire-somebody

I hope this helps and best of luck to you with your business.

I recommend talking to an accountant if you're at the stage where you're looking to hire employees. Do not try to gather the necessary information from the internet because you'll always miss something or get outdated information.

Source: I own my own S-corp.

Hiring people as contractors is the simplest way to go about it. If you pay someone more than $600 during any year, you issue them a 1099.

I obtained my bachelor's in accounting.

What country are you in would be good to know.

Sub-contract...don't hire someone full time. If work drops off over Christmas and through January, February, you still got to pay them. Then it's all down to them in terms of admin as well. You just draw up a contract and ask for an invoice when you tell them you want one.

2 things, 1 check the class posted above. It should help

1. if you do decide to hire someone, try to talk to an accountant over what kind of paperwork that would mean for you and have them help set up any necessary tools for keeping track of things of that nature for tax purposes. A local accountant would be your best resources to go over local requirements for employers.

Get some college interns, they are cheap and motivated. The best thing is you might get a good long term employee, if the internship works out quite well for both of you. I hired two employees because they were former interns (2 out of 5).