Fueling growth by automating payroll I’m used to just being a little company We are a small automotive-repair shop — my brother does the mechanical, and I do everything else. So we never needed payroll. We always got by doing 1099s for us and whatever extra help we needed to bring in. But as we grew, not knowing how to do payroll hurt us. I let a good candidate slip through my fingers because I was afraid of not being able to provide things like benefits and direct deposit. I’m so used to just being a little company, I actually got scared. My insurance agent suggested I should have workman’s compensation, because I do have contractors in here. “The last thing you want is somebody hurt,” he told me. But I was actually prepaying the premiums, which was really horrible. If I forgot t

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