At about 10:45 PM I received and email on my Blackberry indicating that I was officially incorporated, and that all the documentation was in transit. To incorporate I decided that I did not want to go through the hassle of filing for incorporation myself for 2 reasons. First, because I am currently living in Toronto and wanted to open a US corporation, not having a US address would make the whole process much more difficult, time consuming and expensive for me. Secondly, the opportunity costs were much less if I were to hire a document filing service company and so I chose to deal with MyCorporation and purchase their expedited service. Intuit as I hope most of you have heard of, is the owner of this company and also the reason that I decided to choose MyCorporation rather than their competitor Corporate.com. I was amazed at how easy and seamless the whole process was and how helpful the rep who helped me was (Marvin, who also gave be a $25 discount). All it took was a quick 30 minute call to their call center and 1 signature on a piece of paper they sent me via UPS (which I returned the very same day). Then two and a half weeks later (today) I received my incorporation package with all my corporate documents. It even comes with a CD that takes you through the whole package and explains everything about its contents and a copy of Intuit’s Quickbooks. I am just so impress by how well put together this program is and how easy they made it for me to open up a company. I would definitely suggest to anyone wanting to open an American corporation, that they check into using this company’s services.

There is only two things that I need to do before I am ready to do business and that is open up a back account and get a mailing address. It will be a bit of a hassle to open up the bank account because to do so I need to get an Employer Identification Number which I need a social security number to get. This will force me to deal with the IRS which I doubt will be nearly as easy as dealing with MyCorporation. At least opening a mailbox with mail forwarding should be easy (2 words: Mailboxes Etc).