California Spotlight #136
48-Hour Action Required for Corporate Transparency Act
48-Hour Action Required for Corporate Transparency Act
If your business is an LLC or corporation formed before January 1, 2024, and you haven’t filed your Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) report under the Corporate Transparency Act, you’re now entering the enforcement window.
📍 What changed on July 1, 2025?
FinCEN issued clarification: entities that fail to report after 180 days of notification may face up to $500/day in penalties, even if they’re unaware of the filing rule.
✅ What to do:
File via fincen.gov/boi (no cost)
You’ll need your EIN, company formation date, and a copy of the ID for all beneficial owners
⏳ Processing is taking longer than expected (up to 5–7 days), so do not wait until Q3 deadlines.
Are You Still Paying for Cloud Storage You Don’t Use?
A common leak in California small businesses? Unused cloud subscriptions (Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Workspace). After an internal audit, a Fresno-based digital firm found $228/month in overlapping storage they hadn’t touched in 4+ months.
🧩 Use this checklist today:
Go to each account → check last login date
Look for duplicated client folders across platforms
Consolidate into one primary service and downgrade others
Bonus: Switching to Backblaze B2 + Google Drive combo saved a Santa Cruz agency 40% in storage fees with zero disruption.
🚨 Business Spotlight – July 14
Podcast + Newsletter
Want your business in front of 116K+ founders, operators, and buyers this week?
We’re featuring businesses in our July 14 drop—across our top-ranked podcast and California’s two most-read business newsletters.
Here’s what you get for just $99:
🎙️ A podcast shoutout to a business-savvy audience
📩 A 100-word spotlight with your link + CTA
📣 Distribution to 65K–70K daily openers
We’ve featured brands like Google, Squarespace, and Monday.com.
This week, your business could be next.
✍️ Write With Us: Share What You Know
We're opening up space for one founder, operator, or expert to contribute a written piece to our next edition.
This isn’t a one-line shoutout — it’s a full article published in front of 8,000+ business owners, founders, and local operators across California. Your post will also live permanently on our Substack site (which gets steady long-tail traffic and search visibility).
What’s included:
A published guest piece (up to 500 words)
Your byline, short bio, and a link to your business
A spot in our upcoming email issue
SEO-friendly formatting so it’s easy to find and share later
It’s $250 to reserve the slot. If you'd like to write something valuable for your peers — and be seen by other founders while doing it — this is the space for it.