Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

Thanks to App-O-Rama.org for soliciting and sponsoring this review of their service! Can you really make a profit with App-O-Rama.org? That’s the question that I’ll try to help you answer with this post. First of all, App-O-Rama.org is NOT a work at home business opportunity per se. To get clear about what’s going on, it’s [...]

At one point in my life, I wanted to be a “financial planner”. I realized the industry was catering to the top 2% of the people in the United States. I wanted to help the ordinary people… the middle classes if you will. All the talk about individual stocks investments, big tax saving techniques, etc. [...]

If you’re a business owner, buying a heavy SUV over 6000 lbs. can be a legitimate tax deduction. The most obvious SUV in this category is the “Hummer” The tax break was originally envisioned for “businesses” like farmers buying tractors or companies buying a flatbed truck as “working vehicles”. But evidently driving a Hummer with a [...]

There’s a new wave of tax audits looming this fall. This is from the IRS press release: IRS Updates National Research Program for Individuals IR-2007-113, June 6, 2007 WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service officials today announced plans to launch a new National Research Program (NRP) reporting compliance study for individual taxpayers that will provide updated [...]

I’ve told you about Angel Food Ministries before. Angel Food Ministries helps many working mom’s, mompreneurs, and just people who eat money every month. Here’s their June 2007 menu in Word Format. This service helps families in 30 states (see the menu) and is continually expanding if you’re not in one of the states that’s [...]

Amy Kreger’s article on how Work at Home Mom’s and Stay at Home Mom’s can save money prompts me to post on this topic. 1. Inventory what you really have. My wife was cleaning out the shelves one day and found we had a huge supply of writing pads, pens of every description, index cards [...]

LessAccounting.com is still in beta. It’s a Web 2.0 small business accounting application and here’s it’s “claim to fame”… If you’re allergic to “PeachTree”s and for you Quickbooks ain’t so quick, this application may help with the onerous task of handling the accounting end of your business. Those programs have alot of fancy stuff you [...]

As an internet marketer or small business owner, are you getting the tax deductions you deserve? Good question. If I’d had this resource last Friday, I could probably have saved $938! Doh! (I wonder why my accountant never mentioned it and I had to figure it out myself after the fact!) This is the interview [...]

Murphy & Company, a boston accounting firm has a unique perspective. They know you “could” be doing your accounting for yourself. So they have a unique selling proposition. They tell their clients “we’re not here to take money for something you could be doing yourself. We’re here to make sure you can spend your time [...]

This is for our UK audience. In my experience, entrepreneurs are usually knowledgable about all their financing options. If they can save money on interest, that’s something they’re going to take advantange of quickly. For example, many entrepreneurs will fund a start up business with one or more credit cards – high credit – and [...]