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Featured Home Biz of the Week - My Very own Mail

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Business Advice      Comments(2) | expand » | « hide comments

Last week, we featured Practical Saver as our Home Business of the week. This week, we are featuring Lisa Roberson, owner of My Very Own Mail. Lisa sells personalized letters to children promoting literacy. The children also receive, along with their letters, an easy-to-do craft project and a coordinating goodie, such as stickers.

This is a WONDERFUL business, she offers a subscription to the service, where the child receives a new letter every month with a craft project. Children love to get letters so this is a great gift and way to promote reading and activity.

Later in the week I will be talking to Lisa a little more to feature an interview with her about how she got started. Feel free to email or comment with any specific questions you would like to ask. Thank you Lisa for being in business!!…

Home office accounting resource

January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Business Advice, Money Matters      Comments(0)

When you run a small business, one of the biggest issues is going to be money, be it paying someone, yourself, or taxes, you will have to keep on top of this. Some, like me, are just no good at parts of this, taxes are my issue. So it may be worthwhile to get someone to help you keep the accounting paperwork together, there are many companies both locally and online that offer small business accounting. One such company is the Accounting Paradise.com. They offer a monthly program starting at 10.00 a month. Well worth it to keep from getting in trouble down the line with budgets and taxes. I am actually planning on doing this through them, as I work for several different companies online and it can get very tricky determining how much to allocate to takes, marketing, etc.

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Getting Organized in your home office

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Business Advice      Comments(2) | expand » | « hide comments

One of my New Years resolutions this year is to get organized. I plan on starting over in my office in the next month or so when we move into our new house. So I think now is a great time to discuss some needed things to do to get and stay organized. No matter the ‘business’ you do, these tips should apply to you.

Filing
Even with the electronics we have, having a paper filing system is still needed. Depending on your space and amount of files, you can use a small file folder on up to a file cabinet. They have many types of file folders available, my favorites are the kind with a built in media holder, as you can put in all paperwork as well as the associated CD/DVD with the electronic backups. You can sort using colors, dates, names, etc.

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