How To Start Your Own Profitable Bartering Club
Bartering is not negotiating! Bartering is “trading” for a service, or for the goods you want. In essence, bartering is simply buying or paying for goods or services using some thing other than money (coins or government printed paper dollars).
Thus defined, bartering has been around much longer than money as we know it today. Recent estimates indicate that at least 60 percent of companies on the New York Stock Exchange use the principles of bartering as a standard business practice. And congressmen barter daily to gain support for their pet projects. U.S. aircraft manufacturers barter with foreign airlines in order to close sales on million dollar contracts. Perhaps you have experienced at one time or another in your life a friend saying, “Okay, that’s one you owe me…” Basically, that’s bartering. Read more
Keep Your Home Business a Tax Chomping Machine
CRITICAL STEPS TO MAINTAINING BUSINESS STATUS WITH THE IRS
By: Sandy Botkin, C.P.A.
So, you finally decided to start your own part-time home business. You have gathered sufficient inventory and equipment to run it. You have a marketing plan of attack to make lots of money, and all you need to do to keep the IRS off your back is save all receipts, right? WRONG!!
One of the IRS’s favorite weapons is to treat a home business as a hobby, not as a legitimate business. Even if you have all the receipts in the world, classification of your endeavor as a hobby will limit your “business” deductions to the income from the activity. If the deductions exceed your activity’s income, the excess is completely eliminated! Read more
Cashing in by Blogging
by: Len Hutton
Believe it or not, but it’s actually possible to make money from blogging. One teenager has, in fact, earned $5,000 a month just from making posts on his blog! Of course, not every blogger is this lucky. It does take some skill, and some luck to make money from blogging. What it also takes is some knowledge of how exactly to generate income just by posting blogs. In this newsletter, we will go over three specific methods of making money on your blog: Adsense, Pay Per Lead, and Affiliate Links.
So how exactly do I make money on my blog?
You do it by working with another company that wants to use your blog as a form of advertising. It sounds like selling out, right? Not exactly. The advertising can be as in your face or subtle as you want. And it can still make you money, provided you have enough visitors to your blog. Read more
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