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Successful Entrepreneurial Passions

1099 Bombshell Concerns Us All

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Are you INTENDING on success?
More Ideas...For-Profit Hobby Business
The art—and profit—of conversation
Passionate Entrepreneurs

Book Review: The Biology Of Belief, by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.

Tool Review: Self-Publishing w/CreateSpace
For-Profit Hobby Business

Week Of August 1, '10—Home-Business News From The Field...

How to Create a Dynamic Web Site for Your Business - Fox Small Business Center: The Better Way Challenge was a contest in which small business owners submitted videos detailing the toughest part of getting their company's team on the ...read more
More headlines...
Home policy won't cover home business mishaps UK: Record numbers self-employed in 2010
Is Internet Sales Tax Coming Soon? Small-biz aid bill fails to advance
Keeping the lights on in a small business Businesses consider alternative lending
Small Biz Man Reveals A Killer Business Plan AUSTRALIA: Record numbers for biz festival
INDIA: UK stalks sub-continent's economic tiger A Simple Guide to Small Business Insurance
Protect your business in online banking What's in a name? How to name a small business
THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.
-Charles E. Popplestone


Book Of The Month July Magazine
Get 'Em While They're Hot Entrepreneur
Get 'em While They're Hot is a beneficial manual for anyone concerned with being competitive in the labor market in coming years. It's a "must read" for every person concerned about the competitive labor force. (FREE TO MEMBERS!)
Entrepreneur magazine is for businesses owners, offering inspiration and information on marketing, management, technology, the latest trends and strategies. (INCLUDED WITH YOUR MEMBERSHIP!)

Ethics & Skills
Communication and profits...

Conversation

It has long been taught that networking is one of the best ways to promote your personal objectives. My ex-wife was a master at this; it helped her rise from student to a top-level executive position at the same college where she received her undergraduate degree later in life. She instilled the networking philosophy in our son; using his network of acquaintances from college days, he received three job offers shortly after graduation. He has used these networking techniques to build his business from zero into a lifestyle many times better than what I have done...


Tool Review

Kindle for your computer...
Self-Publishing With Amazon CreateSpace

As a writer of occasional books, I have always had a problem figuring out how to get them published. The best place I found for on demand publishing, until now, was Lulu; I will continue to use them, but I plan to try this new source I discovered from Cool Tools. It is the self-publishing division of Amazon, CreateSpace. What caught my eye in the Cool Tools review were the many ways Amazon helps small publishers. It also won’t hurt to become associated with the largest bookseller in the world...


Book Review
Change, profits, and success on purpose...

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts To Change Your Life And The World, by Lynne McTaggart

I can hear it now: “What in the world does this book about weird mind and consciousness stuff have to do with home-based business?”

Well, if the ideas discussed in the book are conclusively proven, they could mean you can more easily persuade employees and customers of the value of your ideas, products, and services. In addition, if you can become proficient with these techniques, you may be able to influence the actions of your competitors, government regulators, your bankers, and others you want to help you. These ideas have been used for thousands of years in other cultures, but the modern Western scientists have been very reluctant to even consider studying the idea of consciousness because of the difficulty of defining consciousness in exact mathematical terms. All this is rapidly changing with the increasing understanding of quantum mechanics...


Business Ideas

Your plans for the coming year...

For-Profit Hobby Business

I have always encouraged the operation of sideline businesses as a way to protect financial security. Even highly paid doctors and lawyers, along with accountants, and other professionals should find some business they feel some passion for and play around with it to see if it will work. If one thing doesn’t work, try something else. If started early enough in one’s career, preferably at least with entrance to college, by the time illness, other disability, or some drastic industry change comes along, like offshoring jobs via the Internet, the professional should have a decent side income to rely upon...


Expert Book

Starting Your Internet Business Right

Start your own Internet Business the right way, without falling into the traps that are out there waiting for you EVERYWHERE... The Internet is becoming a Fantasyland of get-rich-quick schemes, scam artists and other pitfalls that can't wait to take your money and leave you with nothing to show for it. Don't let these people cheat you! Chris Malta knows who they are and how they work, and this FREE EBook will help you to avoid them! As a highly recognized ECommerce Expert, Product Sourcing Editor for eBay Radio, and Host of Product Sourcing Radio, Chris gives you the step-by-step, real-world information you need to not only avoid the scam artists, but to launch your Home-based Internet Business using common sense and real-world approaches. More than 400 people read this FREE EBook every day, and their positive comments have been overwhelming. Don't get left out...your competition could be reading it right now!

DOWNLOAD THE BOOK (PDF)


Software Of The Month

PC: MAC:

Simple Home Budget Lite
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7


A personal budget manager for everyone. Enter transactions of all kinds and analyze income and expenses shown in the summary color-coded overview chart.

SimpleTimer 1.3
Mac OS X 10.1, 10.21, 10.3 10.4, 10.5, 10.6

A simple and easy way to quickly create timers and reminders for daily tasks. Features include one window for every timer, ability to set up the timer just like you would do with a "real" kitchen timer, multiple timers, and more.


Marketing Tips
The path to profit...

Twitter Money

Wikipedia says Twitter has raised over $57 million USD from various venture capital investors, but, so far, there is no evidence they have ever made a dime in revenue in spite of their popularity and rapid growth. This situation led the Industry Standard to say Twitter may not last too long because there appears to be no way for them to make money. Some on Twitter’s board believe a possible revenue source could be from some kind of e-commerce plan because users should be willing to buy from Twitter since they are using it to promote their own revenue sources. Outsiders have created much discussion of ways Twitter might begin to make money. This article discusses three possible revenue strategies Twitter could use to become a billion dollar business within two years. These models depend on Twitter being up to its potential scale (critical mass, about as large as it will get before growth slows). It’s about there now, as growth slowed last year (2009)...


Expert E-Book
Success management and inspiration...

Small Business Management Ebook

Whether you are presently running your own business or just planning to start one, obtaining this E-book can be the best business decision you have ever made.

The Small Business Management E-book (SBM) gives you all the guidelines and tools you need to start, operate and succeed in a business of your own. SBM contains a whopping 240 topics that cover almost any business situation you can think of. It will teach you scores of tricks, secrets and shortcuts—and teach them so that you can start using them at once.

This E-book does far more than impart knowledge...it inspires action!

Click HERE to download (442KB)

The Right Stuff?

Top 10 Signs You're Made to be an Entrepreneur

Someone forwarded me a request for information put out by a USA Today reporter. He was writing an article about entrepreneurial personality traits. He wanted suggestions from "experts" in compiling his list. The idea was to help people decide whether they should seek self-employment or not. I was intrigued by the idea so I submitted my list to him. He did not e-mail or call back so I assume either he was not amused or my submission was not his cup of chai. In any case, I thought my list was cool so I now present it to you and wait (with lazily suspended breath) for your insightful reaction...


Business Ideas
Gain profits doing what you love...

More Ideas...For-Profit Hobby Businesses

If your business has taken a hit during this severe recession, as mine has, you may be looking for additional sources of income. An idea that has received little coverage in the media in past years, has recently become a much discussed subject once more. Many articles are now being published in all the media dealing with careers and part-time jobs regarding the possibilities of turning your hobby into a money making business. I have written about this several years ago, and just recently, I wrote an article for IAHBE entitled “For-Profit Hobby Businesses.” There were so many good ideas about hobbies for profit, my research found too many possibilities for just one article. That is the reason for this article...


Success & Growth
The passions that drive your business...

Successful Entrepreneurial Passions

Entrepreneurs succeed or fail for many reasons. The ones most commonly discussed are knowledge of the business, adequate financing, marketing skills, and being in the right business for the times. Every new business requires a promoter who is not risk averse; if you can’t stand the idea of failure or losing money, you have no business starting a business in the first place. Self-employment is no place for the faint hearted or those who are afraid of failure.

But there is another factor that has a powerful impact on the success or failure of every new business—that is the overpowering effect of passion. That's because even if you have the knowledge and required funding, your business is likely to fail if you have no passion for what you are doing...


Computer Q&A Biz Start-up Ideas

About Windows 7

According the PC World’s review, “Windows Vista offered a flashy new interface, but its poor performance, compatibility gotchas, and lack of compelling features made some folks regret upgrading and others refuse to leave Windows XP.” By all accounts, Windows 7 offers great improvement more seamlessly, with less fanfare—the way it should be...

An infopreneur is a business person who sells information or information products, typically online, via downloadable ebooks, reports, videos, courses, audio files, or other electronic means.

Marketing Tidbits Quicktips
Why people buy, Building your brand, & Video

What really compels someone to make a purchase? How can you effectively build a brand of your own? What kind of zip can you add with a marketing video? Find out now...all in this month's Marketing Tidbits.

Quicktips for your business...


• A new kind of business card
• Taming the business card monster
• Find local connections online with MeetUp


U.S. Tax Issues

Caution ahead...

1099 Bombshell Concerns Us All

NOTE: This opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of SFI or IAHBE.

This article may appear, at first, to be political...but let me assure you, it's not. It's about a provision in the Health Care Reform Act that will affect owners of home-based or small business. Pay attention to this!

The potentially serious problem we’re now facing is buried deep within the 2,409 pages of the health care bill in Section 9006. This section requires ALL companies, even the smallest home-based business, to issue tax Form 1099 to every individual, corporation, or other business to whom you pay more than $600 in a year. This includes all goods and services of whatever kind, not just contract workers as the law now states. The new requirement is slated to become law January 1, 2012...


Around The Net...
YouTube EDU:
TEDTalks
YouTube Education Video Tutorials

In addition to marketing, business, and financial education from top academic sources, YouTube EDU includes a multitude of videos and channels from college and university partners. View thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and more...

In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones. (YouTube: 18 minutes)


VideoLectures.net: Expert Tutorials

VistaPrint On-Demand Marketing Tips

eBay - Searching, Finding, Buying, Selling: Story of a Long Tail Online Marketplace, by Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Lab

The Online Marketplace has all the characteristics of an Offline Marketplace and more because of the simultaneous anonymity and familiarity of the buyers and sellers. The long tail nature of the transactions combined with differing capabilities, motives, and trust leads to a vibrant Social Commerce Network. You'll discover interesting technical challenges and opportunities in finding, classification, merchandising, and reputation systems.

Get free expert advice on topics ranging from logo design to search engine marketing to viral marketing to effective ad copy creation and many more. You can sign up for one of the live webinars or browse VistaPrint's on-demand marketing video library. NOTE: Marketing videos will launch in a pop-up window, so be sure to disable pop-up blockers before clicking on any links below.


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