Archive for June, 2011

If you are deducting your business mileage, be aware that the IRS just upped what you can deduct for the rest of the year to 55.5 cents per mile.  That becomes effective July 1st. The previous rate was 51 cents per mile… so nearly a 10% increase. This is nice for deductions but, to me [...]

Does your organization or church need a Website? TechMission has received a grant where for our TechMission Youth Academy program where we will be providing free Websites for nonprofits and churches.  Below is a summary of how the program works: Apply. Your organization applies to get a free website though TechMission.  This will include the [...]

Yesterday, Dilbert’s boss told him to use “Black Hat” techniques to boost the company’s website rankings. Today, Dilbert reports the disastrous results. Unfortunately they don’t seem to be that much different than many experience using “White Hat techniques now that we know (?) Google operators can manually unrank a site!

StartUpYours.com describes itself as “The only family-friendly business startup course & grant program made especially for freedom-seeking parents & their awesome kids.” It’s a new program that’s coming online but the idea is interesting. What they teach: You dream of a family-centered life, but you also have to support your family. Which is why it’s [...]

Employee Ownership usually isn’t about working at home, though it can mean being home based. It IS though about OWNING your job and keeping not only the worker’s wage but the owner’s capital and earnings on capital. With that in mind this headline caught my eye… Employee Ownership Drives NE Ohio’s Economy which, in turn, [...]

John Locke is the first independently published author to join the Amazon Kindle Million Club Amazon announced today in their Kindle Publishing Newsletter. John Locke is the newest member of the “Kindle Million Club,” and the first independently published author to receive this distinction.  As of June 19th, John Locke has sold 1,010,370 Kindle books [...]

If you’re interested in working from home doing call center work, here’s a job listing I ran across today… While there are work at home positions, they seem to be focusing their recruiting on folks living in the general vicinity around Clarksville, TN Please do your own due diligence of course. Convergys hiring for on-site, [...]

Live Q&A with Michael Stelzner begins at 1 PM ET on June 23rd. Anyone can ask questions before during and after the event. To ask a question before the event, simply do so by commenting on the periodic announcements or by posting to the SiteSell Facebook Wall. But the excitement will surely be DURING the [...]

Check out 25 Ways to Get Another Site to Link to Yours. You probably know most of them or can guess, but I especially liked these tips… #2 Join a Trade Association that links back to member’s sites, or local Chamber of Commerce. #5 Be A Case Study – respond to reporters whose work interests [...]

Can you really make $3,350.70 from just a single, 47-word blog post? Well, here’s the story behind it and how you can apply the same insights to your work online! It’s from Markus Allen – Check out Stump Markus Live! Get this… … Yesterday Richard Cole stole one of my ideas (with permission) and quickly [...]