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- Small Business Tax Question and Answer Event
- Grow Your Skills, Make New Connections at These Events
- From The Community: Ideas for Startups and Marketing Software
- Florida Woman Uses Online Freelance Business to Travel the World
- Take Your Online Reputation from Ripped to “Repped”
| Small Business Tax Question and Answer Event Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST Have some questions about doing your business taxes? On February 21, 2014 Greg Lemons, a CPA, will be answering questions about taxes. Here are some of the topics that will be covered:
The discussion will be hosted and led by Joshua Mackens, owner of Tutelary Marketing. Participants will have a question and answer period to pose tax questions directly to Greg Lemons, the expert guest. Lemons has been a CPA for over 36 years and is the former CFO and Controller of two different Fortune 500 companies (one of which was Mapco). He left the corporate world 11 years ago to open up his own accounting firm dedicated to helping small businesses exclusively. DetailsWhen: Friday, February 21, 2014, at 9 am Central time (Chicago time zone) Where: Online, using a Google Hangout (you participate by going to the appointed URL and using your computer’s Web cam) Price: FREE How: Go here to sign up by email (fill out the email box in the center of that page). You will receive a confirmation email with instructions for how to attend. The post Small Business Tax Question and Answer Event appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
| Grow Your Skills, Make New Connections at These Events Posted: 15 Feb 2014 03:30 PM PST Are you ready to get rid of the winter doldrums, and attend an event to grow your skills or make new connections? What about giving your business a boost by participating in an awards program? We’ve got some options for you, with our latest curated list of events, contests and awards for small businesses, solo entrepreneurs and growing companies. To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards
Tim Adam of Handmadeology, Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, and Chai Dutt of Meylah.com will share the secrets to participating and reaping the benefits of online commerce to sell digital goods and professional services. In this upcoming webinar, we will answer questions that marketers and trainers have on how to sell their digital products and services on Small Business Trends. Join in at 1 pm EST (New York time zone) for this useful webinar. We will have demos and hands-on examples. Learn how. Lots of fun Q & A. Register here.
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| From The Community: Ideas for Startups and Marketing Software Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST
From across the Web, here’s our Small Business Community News and Information roundup looking at some of the issues important to small business owners just like you this week. Starting a Business By Solving your Own Problems (WP Content) Collis Ta'eed, CEO of online marketplace Envato, says he “scratched his own itch” when founding the company. Ta'eed tells blogger and entrepreneur Sam Berson he felt people trying to sell tech downloads needed a place of their own on the Web. Choosing the Leading Marketing Software (Marketing Land) So, how do you choose the marketing software that’s right for your business? Well, in a perfect world, you’d take the time to evaluate and research all the options. But to save time, you might look for the industry leaders. Matt McGee has a list to consider. What You Can Learn from Amateurs (Loyola Digital Advertising) When it comes to effective marketing, knowing your audience and reaching them effectively trumps every other consideration. This post on the marketing and advertizing blog for Loyola University looks at what you can learn from the amateur marketer about identifying a demographic and getting customers’ attention. We’ll Say It Again; You Should Be Blogging (CodeCondo) It’s amazing after all the technological changes of the past few years that blogging is still relevant. Or that a business owner, at this late date, would still be urged to think about starting one. But look at this list of benefits. You can see the payoff is still huge. Google Shopping: An Overview (PPC Hero) If you haven’t heard of Google Shopping ads yet, you certainly will. But before jumping on the latest online advertising band wagon, have a closer look. Jacob Fairclough, account manager at Hanapin Marketing, gives us an introduction to Google Shopping and what it can do. Even Dentists Use Mobile Marketing (Digital Dental Magazine) Still wondering if your brick and mortar business really needs to worry about mobile marketing? Jacob Puhl, editor at Digital Dental Magazine, insists even dental practices should be using this simple and inexpensive means to attract local customers. Office Politics Realities (InPower Consulting) You may hate office politics. But it’s time to give work relationships their due. Consultant Dana Theus acknowledges how office politics can impact your career. Entrepreneurs must recognize its place in the company culture they create too. Developing a Romance Policy for the Office (GenesisHR Solutions) And speaking of office culture, another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Do you need a romance policy for your workplace? Seem minor? Like so many other decisions you make, it could have big ramifications for your business. Affordable Care Act and Tax Withholding (Barbara’s Blog) The passage of the Affordable Care Act has caused many changes for businesses and individuals, as we know. Here, from tax expert Barbara Weltman, is some guidance on yet another issue. Make sure you understand how the new law affects your business. Be Sure to Do Your Homework (Business Brokers of the Plains) If you’re selling a business, it’s important to take your time. Do your homework and be sure you understand the terms of any agreement you finally make. Here broker Steve Fischer warns about the dangers of going on emotion when making any big business decisions. If you’ve got something to share that you think would make our roundup even better each week, send us an email at sbtips@gmail.com. Or share your content via the BizSugar community. It’s our go-to site for fresh and authentic commentary from small business owners like you. Enjoy! Business Tablet User: Shutterstock The post From The Community: Ideas for Startups and Marketing Software appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
| Florida Woman Uses Online Freelance Business to Travel the World Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST
Spending 40 hours each week in a cubicle can be restricting. It can offer little room for creativity, flexibility or experiencing a full life. But the past several years have brought an influx in freelancing and telecommuting work. That work has allowed former cubicle dwellers like Nina Ragusa to get out and travel the world without going broke in the process. Back in early 2011, Ragusa was working three jobs, including one where she sat in a cubicle dealing with foreclosures for a title company in Florida. She wanted to get out and see the world. And she found her ticket to do just that by going online. She said in an email interview with Small Business Trends:
At first, Ragusa found a job teaching English at a school in Thailand. But now she teaches English online and works as a freelance writer for travel websites and similar blogs. They’re jobs that she has found through popular sites like oDesk and Elance. Aside from allowing her to work wherever she wants, her freelance career also allows her to work whenever she wants. In creating her work schedule, Ragusa said she often works 40 or more hours per week for a few months at a time. Then she takes a break to travel to another country for a month or two where she only works a couple of hours each week. Then she will choose a new location where she can spend some time working again.
Before freelancing, Ragusa didn't have any professional writing experience. But now she has more than two years of experience supporting herself and her travels with it. She even started her own blog, Where in the World is Nina. There she documents her trips and offers tips for others who may want to follow in her footsteps:
Though she still feels most at home in Thailand, the online nature of her current work allows her to travel more than she did when she was teaching there. She travels and experiences far more than she did before quitting her jobs in the states. So far, she's been to exotic locations like Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bali and Laos. The past three years she's spent traveling have been the happiest of Ragusa's life, she says.
She ads that it's a change she would recommend to anyone looking to escape the cubicle and see the world:
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| Take Your Online Reputation from Ripped to “Repped” Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST
That is the basic premise behind Andy Beal's (@AndyBeal) new book Repped: 30 Days to a Better Online Reputation. I wasn't quite sure what to think. Are reputation management and six-pack abs even on the same level as subjects? Can reputation management ever come close to the sex appeal of six-pack abs? I suppose that depends on where you are on the reputation management spectrum of shame. If you still haven't embraced social media and don't have a lot of brand presence, this book will definitely put you on the right track to getting your online brand set up right. And if you've experienced anything like a bad online review or even embarrassed yourself online, you'll learn how to fix all of those little snafu’s day-by-day . . . in thirty days. Andy Beal is Your Guide Through the Reputation Management JungleAndy Beal is known as the "Indiana Jones of Reputation Management." I've been following Andy since the early days of Twitter and blogging, and when he was recently a guest on a Google Hangout about reputation management, I begged for a review copy of his new book. I wanted to see if it was good as I’d hoped, and then share my results with you. Repped is actually Andy's second book. His first book was called Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online, it was written back in 2008 and quickly became a reference guide for anyone who was interested in reputation management. A lot has changed since 2008, and Andy had vowed not to write another book. It looks like God or the universe had other plans. In the introduction of the book, Andy recalls the moment that the whole book came to him. He called it divine inspiration. For you and your online reputation, it might be more like divine intervention. Yes. You Really Can Build or Fix a Reputation in 30 DaysOne of the things I really like about this book is the simple exercise-a-day structure. There are 30 meaty chapters. Each with a simple theme, explanation and finally an exercise for you to do that will take you closer to reputation "ripped-ness." The basic idea is that you can commit to anything for thirty days and in this book, Andy makes it easy. Repped Answers Your Online QuandariesInside Repped you'll find all kinds of cool little goodies like simple answers and explanations to seemingly insignificant questions – that few people have recommendations for. Let me give you an example:
Reputation Management is for EveryoneOne thing that may have changed since the early days of reputation management is the idea that it's for EVERYONE – and not just big companies, celebrities and brands. In fact, one of the early chapters and exercises that Beal has you go through is to manage all of your personal profiles and posts. These days, no one is exempt from having an online reputation. So if you're a twenty-something who is starting to look for a job or wants to clean up and online mess, a small business that wants to take your customer engagement and customer service level up a notch, or a big brand with a tarnished company image — you will all find solace and strategy inside the pages of Repped. The post Take Your Online Reputation from Ripped to “Repped” appeared first on Small Business Trends. |
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