[header] How to incorporate a business [title] Decide if your business will benefit from incorporation. [step] Incorporating gives you the benefit of limiting your personal liability and making your business easier to transfer to others. Limiting your personal assets will protect your home and other belongings from being seized as collateral. 
Depending on the type of company you've started and your long-term goals for it, incorporating might be right for you, or it may be superfluous. Being incorporated enables you to : [substeps] Legitimize the business.