Archive for April, 2006

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. Start a Good Looking Blog – eponym.com – Most blogs are ugly. Ours aren’t. Start a Free Blog today! 1. Are these blogs really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. Again, not moving [...]

Did you ever see the ads selling information on how to make money with your camera? Or selling information on how to “make money just driving around”? As you knew deep inside, there’s something you need to know besides how to use a camera or just drive around. There ARE such positions however… The involve [...]