Archive for April, 2006

From Dan Poynter at ParaPublishing.com
FLORIDA PUBLISHING MINI-COLLEGE. The Florida Publishers Association, Inc. is now accepting registrations for its April 22 Publishing Mini-College, themed “The Business of Books,” to be held at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida. Details and a downloadable PDF of the conference brochure can be found online at [...]

I was looking at my Gmail today.
When I wasn’t having to glance past recipes for the luncheon meat SPAM when deleting stuff in the bulk mail folder, this ad appeared.
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1. Are these blogs really any better looking?
2. [...]

MSN Money thinks our tax burden is low.
Believe it or not, Americans enjoy some of the lowest income tax rates in the world. Today of all days, it might not seem so.
“When you look at the overall tax burden, the U.S. is quite low,” said Eric Toder, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in [...]

Have you written a Pet related book and hope to hit the big time?
This may be your opportunity.
It’s from Dan Poynter
PET BOOKS WANTED FOR REVIEW on the PETroglyphs web site (http://www.PetroglyphsNM.org ). I can’t guarantee that every book will be reviewed, but we will do as many as possible. Send your books to Nancy Marano, [...]

Need to file for an automatic extension on your taxes?
Last year, you just called a toll free number, typed in your data and got a confirmation number.
This year, when you download the IRS Form 4868 - Application for Automatic Extension, you get directed to … government contractors.
Filing for an extension was fairly easy… confirmation numbers [...]

I feel like I’ve found the “missing link”… an actual government grant for a business.
I know that selling information on government grants is big business, but I’ve never actually seen one that a small business might be able to get.
But perhaps I have found one.
In a fax from our local Chamber of Commerce, our United [...]

If you’ve done any retirement planning lately, the savings needed to fund retirement in the United States seems totally unreachable for many people.
As retirees consider their options, Panama looks good due to a low cost of living and favorable treatment of income earned outside the country.
A few thousand per month earned from a website based [...]

From Phil Dunn
Set the thing aside and let it sit for least an hour
Read it again and flag stumbling spots
Break up paragraphs to increase pace (variety is the spice of life). Go with short graphs first, then vary the amount of lines from 3-5. Sprinkle in some one line paragraphs, if possible.
* Break long [...]

Being a genius with calendars, I just realized… It’s National Small Business Week this week!
I feel better after reading Jeff Cornwall of Belmont University’s Center for Entrepreneurship… I’m not the only one who forgot. So did the U.S. Government.
This week is “National Small Business Week.” However, words are cheap. Offering a week to acknowledge [...]

From Bizymoms.com
First let me explain why I chose the word “failure” for this week’s topic. I spoke to four different women last week about home business. Two of those women commented on their “failures”. In essence they were not moving forward because of past failures. Another was afraid of future failure. [...]