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Will You Add? - Seven Things A Self Employed Writer Should Know About Taxes
I just finished watching the amazing documentary "March of the Penguins" and could not help but think how incredible the animal world is. Even without an MBA or any other type of formal training, animals (in this case penguins) have somehow captured what many business owners fail to grasp, even after years of education and experience.Over the years, these penguins have managed to evolve (read: continuous improvement) and adapt to the most brutal of all climates. Every year they leave the comfort of their home and march over 70 miles, overcoming enormous obstacles to gather in a place where every penguin for thousands of years has been born. According to the documentary, they endure temperatures of over 58 degrees bel
Conflicting descriptions of no-risk investment and reports of a collapsing self-storage market have potential self-storage business owners scratching their heads. Can self storage units stay on top of the undulating economy? The answer is: Yes, with few exceptions.Elementary economics Some reports have assumed that the recent rise in mini-storage businesses has outstripped demand, threatening the success of new ventures. In truth, the self-storage industry has grown leaps and bounds since its beginnings in the 1970’s but the demand has grown as well. Surprisingly, the increased supply of self-storage units has managed to stimulate customer interest.Self-Storage Popularity Spurs Market Expansion As communities have
The first item on your agenda should be to keep good records. The simplest record keeping method for a self-employed writer is to use a checking account. Keep the checkbook, up-to-date and balanced. Deposit all your income to the checking account and pay all your business expenses from the checkbook. You will not remember that cash expense later if you don’t write it down. Cash receipts get lost or mislaid, income is forgotten or overlooked, and by the end of the year it is impossible to reconstruct what has happened without a systematic written record. The checkbook is the easiest method to use for a single person business. Accountants call it the poor man's book
Are you considering opening a dollar store? If so here is a secret that I learned the hard way. In fact this secret was learned only after totally stocking a new store from top to bottom and then finding that shoppers were unhappy with the way merchandise was displayed in the store. That customer dissatisfaction with the store led to a total restock of the store. Almost instant increases in sales followed.We found that customers have very defined shopping patterns. Those patterns translate into buying patterns. Those patterns translate into whether you will make money after opening a dollar store.The patterns that the majority of customers follow are:• They enter the store. • They immediately turn right and mov
The first item on your agenda should be to keep good records. The simplest record keeping method for a self-employed writer is to use a checking account. Keep the checkbook, up-to-date and balanced. Deposit all your income to the checking account and pay all your business expenses from the checkbook. You will not remember that cash expense later if you don’t write it down. Cash receipts get lost or mislaid, income is forgotten or overlooked, and by the end of the year it is impossible to reconstruct what has happened without a systematic written record. The checkbook is the easiest method to use for a single person business. Accountants call it the poor man's boo
1. Address your reader as a friend, not as “Friend.”When was the last time you received a letter from someone dear to you, addressing you as “Dear Friend?” Never, right? The days of the Dear Friend letter are dead. I heard recently of a chairman of the board of a national charity who has given his charity millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of his time, yet he still receives fundraising appeals from this charity addressing him as “Dear Friend.” Ouch.2. Arrest attention with an opening that resonates with your donors. Assume your reader is standing over a trash can with a stack of today’s mail, reading the opening sentence of each letter before deciding its fate. You have only
If you are considering becoming a telemarketer either as a career or a temporary job, I would like to offer you some things to consider. Most telemarketers are not really salespeople at all. They are script readers who are expected to add a human voice to the script which has been written by a high pressure artist. Then they are offered up to the marketplace as cannon fodder.Telemarketers are generally very poorly paid and virtually never trained as salespeople. But it gets worse. Telemarketers are usually not trained to deal with the rejection and personal abuse they will surely encounter while doing their jobs. The public considers the telemarketer at the bottom of the heap when it comes to salespeople.Many people try tele
The purpose for all makeup is to enhance your best features and minimize your flaws. Unlike television of old, high definition television does not require the thick pancake makeup, dark contouring or dramatic applications. Nor will everyday street makeup create flawless looking skin.A professional makeup artist, studied in HDTV, can tailor your approach guided by your coloring and bone structure. For personal application, the following is a guideline to the products and application techniques you will need before you appear on HDTV.Men and women alike require a foundation, concealer and blush/bronzer for any HDTV appearance. Women (and some men) will also need eye makeup and lip color.Aptly named, the foundation selec
Mileage is another huge problem area for the self-employed. Currently there are two acceptable methods allowed in calculating mileage expense: the actual expense method and the standard deduction method. The actual expense method requires adding up all gas, oil changes, car washes, repairs, tires and other vehicle expenses and doing a depreciation calculation to compute the total cost of running a vehicle. Then you must multiply by the percentage of actual use as a business vehicle. For this you need to know actual business miles driven as well as the total mileage put on the vehicle for the year. If you use more than one vehicle you need to do a separate calculation for each vehicle.
The other approved method is a standar
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