Business trips can often take place at last minute. Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face. Which means if your job could potentially involve business travel, it’s essential to be prepare as much as possible in advance.

In general, all travel trips are being booked later and later, so unless there’s a major conference going on in your destination city, you should be able to find somewhere to stay. What can be more difficult to ensure is that it’s somewhere you want to stay and that it’s within your budget.

If you know your job is likely to involve travel, it’s worth planning ahead and setting up a new folder in your bookmarks so that you’re not hunting around search engines, desperately trying to find your preferred airlines and hotel bookers.

Start your search while you’re not rushed!

Make sure that you bookmark at least two of everything, in case site you use doesn’t have anything available for your trip.

For flights, choose one of sites that lists lots of different airlines. But remember that these don’t always list budget airlines, so bookmark web site of any budget airline that flies from your local airport.

When choosing flights, make sure that you check number of stopovers. This is easily missed when you are traveling at last minute. Stopovers can add hours to a flight time and they increase likelihood of delays on your journey.

A sole proprietorship is easiest and least expensive form of business structure to set up. Most businesses start out as sole proprietorships and some move on to a more sophisticated for of business structure. A sole proprietorship is owned by one individual. The business and individual are seen as one and same in eyes of law. This means that sole proprietor owns all assets and profits that are generated by business. This also means that he or she is completely responsible for all of business's debts and responsibilities.

A sole proprietorship can do business under name of owner or it can do business using a fictitious name, such as Jay's Car Repair. This is also called "doing business as", and does not create a legal entity that is separate from business owner.

A sole proprietor typically signs contracts or checks using his or her name and will also typically have checks that are made out to business written in his or her name, even though business may be operating under a fictitious name. The reason for this is that business and owner are one and same in eyes of law.

Many sole proprietorships combine personal and business transactions, such as using same checking account for both.