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I am so happy I went with the tax preparation and bookkeeping service we spoke about last year. My books have never been better and I think I saved enough money to go on a nice vacation...finally! - Michael S.
IT ALL STARTED ONE DAY BACK IN 1987...
Has it really been 20 years?
After a year, Derek left to work as Associate Director for the Northern Nevada Development Authority, an economic development agency responsible for industry recruitment and economic development in Northern Nevada. While there, he began to put plans to his vision of starting his own Nevada incorporation business. Corporate Service Center, Inc. began in February 1989 in a tiny, one-room office located near the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada. The office was humble: there were no customers, only a couple of thrift-store desks (one with a leg that was about a 1/2 inch shorter than the others, which we kept balanced on a book for the first year or so), mis-matched office chairs with broken wheels, a file cabinet, an original Commodore 64 computer connected to a used daisy-wheel printer and a typewriter. (Oh, and a used microwave oven that was primarily used to burn popcorn.)
We didn’t have any pictures on the walls - or an advertising budget. But we did have a burning desire to help people incorporate in Nevada. And we had a lot of time on our hands. So, Derek went to work building a new business, while he maintained his responsibilities working in state economic development, and juggled the responsibilites of being a new husband and father.
At first we did a few basic seminars - some in town, and a few on the road. (One memorable event in the Bay Area was filled only after we spent two days in motel room, taking advantage of their “unlimited local calls” to cold-call new businesses in that area to get them to attend.) We did some direct mail. Derek wrote a book. When we had a few bucks, we ran small classified ads to "Incorporate in Tax-Free Nevada" in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. For a while we wrote, published and mailed a magazine, called The Corporation Strategist, which really started to build our reputation as a service provider.
For many years, Corporate Service Center also had a subsidiary office in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where we specialized in providing incorporation and office services also. At first we thought that perhaps Wyoming had potential to offer benefits that might compete with those provided by Nevada, but after more than a decade in Wyoming, we realized that the State of Wyoming wasn’t really a serious competitor to Nevada after all, and we made a strategic decision to close that office and focus on what we know best.
In August 2002, Derek was elected president of what was then called the Nevada Resident Agent Association, where he began to work closely with many of the Nevada incorporation firms, and where he began to influence Nevada’s business laws in the state legislature. There, he struck a friendship with Mr. Cort Christie, founder of Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc. in Las Vegas. After working together on important state issues that impact this industry, Derek and Cort began to talk about the benefits of combining the two companies in a way that would bring the best of both companies together. Corporate Service Center had established a great reputation as a service provider, and Nevada Corporate Headquarters had developed terrific sales and marketing resources that, if combined, could improve both companies significantly.
So, in 2004, Corporate Service Center, Inc. and Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc. became sister-companies under the umbrella of a newly-formed Superior Capital Corporation, with Derek Rowley as president. Combined, these two companies are the largest incorporation firm in Nevada, providing the broadest range of services and highest level of customer support in the industry.
But, we never forget where we came from. I think we still have that old microwave somewhere.