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One of the most pressing questions for people in the U.S. who are transitioning to self employment from a job “with benefits�? is the health care question…if not for the business person, then for their spouse or children.It’s one thing to go on the other spouse’s insurance if they have it. But if you have [...]

Do you need help keeping track of your inventory pricing on Amazon? Or finding great deals for items on your wishlist? Hoping the price will go down? Or Up? (If you’re selling) Here’s help. RSS feeds for Amazon.com products promise to be an amazing “Marketing Intelligence” tool for people selling books and other items on [...]

Sometimes we’re so busy working, we forget to make sure we get paid. Really. Freshbooks.com an online service with over 90,000 subscribers automates and simplifies the process. They guarantee their service will Save you time Be easy to use Make you look professional (think Fortune 500) Let you manage your books without an accountant Secure, [...]

You can find local resources to help your business grow at the Virtual Business Incubator Just click it on, choose your state and find a variety of resources to help start a business or expand an existing business. There you’ll find folks in your state to help you track down the information and funding you [...]

Just for fun, let’s do some math… Did you know that if you work until you’re 65, and live until you’re 85, you need $240,000 saved up just to “get by” on $12,000 a year? Do you know where you stand right now? 1. Subtract your current age from 65 (85 – ___) =… That’s [...]

It’s Friday afternoon. Time to go a little nuts. Here’s a cool video… how to enter the “New Economy” and get a Big Mac for $1.00 instead of the national average $3.39. You just have to know how to ask. Here’s the video Go ahead… make McDonald’s Day. Don’t miss these funny videos. Sign up [...]

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It just goes to show that UK taxes are as convoluted as the US tax system.  They’re incomprehensible in either dialect. The advice to “save money for a rainy day” seems to have passed across the Atlantic in an intelligible form. From Times Online UK “The secret to self employment is keeping the tax man [...]

Think your home or small business is too small to profit using low cost ad techniques? Small outfits actually use Word of Mouth BETTER and here’s proof. And of course if the FREE advertising doesn’t work for your home based business, the expensive stuff usually won’t work either! From Womnibus Weekly Small companies do a [...]

Yes, there is a key to boosting your retirement savings by as much as $1.2 million dollars according to ChristianBusiness.net’s Steve Kroening… yet it has nothing to do with the stocks picked. In the study the key difference that improved long term yield was the relative management costs of the mutual funds. Low cost funds [...]