The Company Corporation - Incorporating Your Business For Dummies

The Company Corporation was founded to provide entrepreneurs and small business owners the opportunity to get the same savings and legal benefits enjoyed by the largest corporations in America at a reasonable and affordable cost. Today, The Company Corporation is the largest direct incorporating company in the United States. The company has more than 20 offices strategically located throughout the United States and files corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities in all 50 states.

According to Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, over 800,000 new corporations were formed in the United States last year. The Company Corporation and its affiliated companies formed over 125,000 of these, which equates to 1 out of every 7 new corporations established in the United States.

The Company Corporation is a subsidiary of the privately held Corporation Service Company (CSC). CSC is an industry leader serving the major corporate law firms and the corporations they represent with public record document filing, retrieval, and registered agent services.

Since 1899, CSC and its affiliated companies have provided incorporation and business services to the entrepreneurial, legal, and corporate communities. In fact, the founders of the company were instrumental in preparing the corporate laws of the State of Delaware, the world-renowned standard for corporate governance.

The Company Corporation was the first incorporation service company to provide easy access to online incorporations. In fact, 60 percent of business formations conducted with the help of The Company Corporation are completed online at www.incorporate.com. The company is the designated incorporation services provider on many prominent small business sites.

The Company Corporation maintains a staff of highly trained personnel skilled in the incorporation process who assist the hundreds of entrepreneurs who call toll-free (888-811-0111) every day to form their companies. These Incorporation Specialists answer state-specific questions as well as numerous calls from business owners abroad in countries all over the world.

In addition to filing corporation and limited liability company formation documents with each state, The Company Corporation services thousands of clients daily, providing a wide range of corporate services including registered agent services, corporate kits, publications, document retrieval, plus many other small business and corporate services. These services include domain name registration; Web site development tools; mail forwarding in Delaware and Nevada; Tax-on-Time Service in Delaware; and Compliance Watch SM at www.compliancewatch.com Compliance Watch is an online state-specific corporate compliance service designed to help business owners keep track of required corporate formalities.

Carl R. J. Sniffen: With a degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and a law degree from the University of MissouriKansas City, Carl has been actively engaged in the practice of business law, arbitration, and mediation for more than 20 years. His areas of emphasis include working with small business clients on a variety of business-related issues, nonprofit and tax-exempt entities, and community service organizations.

Carl has written or co-authored a number of business-related books, including A Company Policy and Personnel Workbook, Developing Company Policies, The Essential Corporation Handbook, and Starting and Operating a Business in Oregon.

Carl has also written articles for various publications pertaining to tax and legal implications of special events. He has contributed subject matter expertise to The Company Corporation in the development of its Compliance Watch service.

Carl lives, works, and plays in Grants Pass, Oregon, along with spouse Barb, sons Neil and Brian, and wayward dogs Bert and Bailey. Since 1995, Carl has served as the head cross-country coach and assistant track and field coach at Grants Pass High School.