And you must alsofile a corporate income tax return for March 1 throughDecember 31.Maybe that's no big deal. Maybe you enjoy filingone business income tax return so much, filinga second one doesn't bother you. And it may bethat the inconvenience of filing two tax returnsin 2005 is far outweighed by the legal and taxadvantages of incorporating.Keep in mind, too, that 2005 will be the only yearyou have to do this "double duty". In 2006 youwill only have to file the corporate income tax return.But if you are thinking about incorporating, thebest time to do it, from a tax paperwork standpoint,is as of January 1. Only then do you have a "clean break"from the old sole proprietorship to the newcorporation.This timing issue can also be relevant if youdecide to make the switch late in the year.

Ifthe effective date of the incorporation is November 15,you will have to file a Schedule C for January 1through November 14, and a corporate return forNovember 15 through December 31. In that scenario,you should ask yourself, "Do the benefits ofincorporating outweigh the convenience of waitinguntil January 1?"So before you decide when to incorporate, take a momentto reflect on the tax reporting consequences of incorporating on January 1 vs. any other date.Sometimes it may make sense to wait a few weeks(as in the second example), and sometimes it makes senseto "do it now", especially when January 1 is nearby..

If your initial research turns up the name of a noted ferret expert, for instance, an easy way to incorporate that person's expertise and knowledge into your ebook is to interview him. Here's a step-by-step process for conducting effective interviews:1. Decide WHO to interview. Make sure the person truly is an expert in the field and knows what he's talking about. Contact him (preferably by phone) to see if he's willing to do an interview.

Let him know you'll provide the questions in advance. Negotiate a deal that he's agreeable with. Some will do interviews for free as long as you mention their name in your ebook. Some will expect to be paid a fee. Some will be want rights to sell the ebook you create.

If you are unwilling or unable to provide what the expert wants, find another expert. 2. Determine the FOCUS of the interview. In our example, we're interested in writing an ebook about teaching ferrets to do tricks, so we don't care about their mating habits or the quality of their fur. 3.

Once your focus is clearly defined, create your list of interview QUESTIONS. Keep your target audience in mind? what do THEY need to know? What answers are needed in your ebook to provide the readers with the information they're looking for? In our example, our readers would probably want to know the best motivator for ferrets? is it food, petting, play, verbal praise? Put yourself in your readers' shoes: if YOU wanted to know how to teach a ferret tricks, what questions would you ask of a ferret expert?4. Determine the best METHOD for the interview. Interviews can be done in person, on the phone, or even via email. All are effective.

Use the method your expert prefers. 5. SCHEDULE the interview. Make the time (and possibly the place, if doing this in person) convenient to your expert. 6.

SEND your questions to your expert in advance of the actual interview. (Of course if the "interview" is being done via email, this isn't necessary.) But be sure to let them know that other questions may arise during the interview. This allows you to gain two types of information from your interview: the prepared, carefully thought-out answers you need, AND the spontaneous, off-the-cuff remarks that will spice up your copy. If your expert balks at the idea of unknown questions, assure him that he will have final approval on his comments that are included in your ebook. Spontaneous questions are also possible with email interviews.

Once you receive back the answers to the questions, read them over and think of a follow-up question or two? then CALL the expert and ask for clarification. NOTE: If doing interviews via email, always give them a deadline to reply back to you.7. RECORD your interviews -- even if you take excellent notes!. There's no substitute for being able to replay the comments as many times as needed to get an accurate transcription of what was said. Minicassette recorders are cheap, small and easy to carry around.

If doing a telephone interview, there are inexpensive devices that connect the recorder to your phone. NOTE: Some states do not allow recording of telephone conversations without the knowledge and permission of those being recorded. Some people do not feel comfortable having their conversations recorded. Whether doing the interview by telephone or in person, it's always best to ask permission to record it. Just tell them it helps you to get their comments as accurately as possible because your note-taking skills are lacking.

Also tell them that they will have final approval of their comments used in your ebook. This will ease their reluctance to have the interview recorded.8. TAKE NOTES of the interview -- even if you're recording it! Never totally rely on a recorder? the batteries can die, the tape can wear out or end without auto-reversing, the telephone connector might be hooked up wrong, etc. Always get as much down manually as possible to back up your recording.9. TRANSCRIBE your interview as soon as possible.

(Again, email interviews do not apply). This is particularly critical if your recorder failed and you're relying on your hastily scribbled notes ? and your memory to decipher them!10. INCORPORATE THE EXPERT'S COMMENTS into your ebook. This does not have to be done in the typical interview Q&A format, but that is easiest. How you incorporate the comments depends on the writing style of your ebook.

(This article doesn't go into that.)11. PROVIDE THE FIRST DRAFT of your ebook to your expert and ask him to verify the accuracy of the information attributed to him. This is important. The last thing you want to do is misquote him or get some of the facts mixed up. Plus he may even provide additional useful information as he reviews your ebook.

Another added bonus? by getting his approval, you're gaining his trust. If you wish to do follow-up ebooks in the future on the same general topic, it'll be easy to get this expert to assist you again.12. MODIFY the draft to incorporate the expert's comments. 13. FINALIZE and sell your ebook! (This is the really fun part!)14.

FULFILL YOUR AGREEMENT with the expert. Has he been paid? Did he receive his copy of the ebook? Even if he did the interview for free and asked for nothing in return, send him a free copy of the ebook along with a nice thank-you note.See? You don't have to be an expert or write only about what you know. Virtually anyone can write about anything with the right tools. For more information on how to write and sell your own ebooks, visit http://myks.sitesell.com/propelprofits.html.

The mail is typically personalised to incorporate the webmaster name and the sites which are proposed to link. Again, the system inputs these details into the draft mail for you.The mails are then sent. Some webmasters have reported a near 95% acceptance rate within a week. Those sites that accept will thus have a reciprocal link in place without any further work required. The process takes minutes for potentially hundreds of reciprocal links and can be used time and again on the same or different sites.In this way the wise webmasters are generating hundreds of reciprocal links within minutes.Is the age of links dead? Not yet, the age of the reciprocal link delivering competitive advantage is still here, but soon it will be an essential weapon just to exist.A free download version of Arelis and other tools are available at http://arelis.org/arelis.html.

However, a world of complex authoring structures, advanced techniques, and sophisticated effects begins to unfold as one learns more about Flash.Regarding the creator of this animation, he certainly has a good combination of images, graphics and sounds in this masterpiece. He must have used his creativity and imagination meticulously in this animation. I was really impressed with the way it was created. It's very fascinating.With what I've seen, I'm looking forward to see your other creations, too. I hardly find experts in this software application and whenever I do, I'm always impressed with their works of art.

You'll get two thumbs up from me.To the creator of this Christmas animation, I only have three words for you. "You definitely rock!" Keep it up, dude! Godspeed!.

Well, I have transferred many sites before so I knew how it worked. I knew I would get access to Host4Profit before transferring with my registrar and that all I had to do was upload everything over to the new host while my old host was still active. This would make a seamless transfer. No one would ever know anything happened ...To make a long story short, it didn't turn out to be as seamless as I hoped and things were a little messed up for about a day. Needless to say, I received TONS of emails!"What happened?!""Where did you go?!""Give me my money back!""Hello? Are you there?"Well, I couldn't ANSWER these emails because I was busy getting the transfer problem fixed.

This caused most of them to email me a SECOND time, therefore doubling the amount of emails sitting in my email box! Stress was building as I worked to get the problem fixed ....After the problem was finally resolved, I sent an update letting everyone know what happened. I got back to any emails that I felt needed answering ... this whole thing took almost 18 hours of my time and NO SLEEP for me!The stress and the fact that I had no sleep took it's toll on me. When I got some really rude emails from some angry customers and associates, I didn't take my own advice and let it sit until I calmed down. You know what I did instead? I gave refunds to all of them! I didn't even want to deal with it ...

as a result, I refunded over $1000 in sales.I know, I know ... you're asking yourself, "How could that be a good thing?" Well, it made me get out of my bull stubborn "I'll handle it all" attitude and incorporate some much needed help. Now I have someone to answer those emails, someone to answer those calls, and various other things. What a RELIEF! Why didn't I do it sooner?! :)If you answered "Yes" to my first question above, heed my advice. Take off those bull horns and find a couple of people that you trust to help with some of your dauntless duties.

And if your business is not big enough yet to incorporate help and you're handling it just fine ... don't forget this advice when it grows right before your very eyes ----Copyright 2004 Diane Hughes.

Not: "Save time and money with Acme widgets," but, "Free! Four hours a week to read a book, walk along the beach and follow your dream when you use Acme widgets the quickest Widget on the market today." 2. "How can you give me this?" Explain why People aren't silly, they're not going to believe something just because you say it's true. You must offer credible, logical reasons to support your claims. "Acme widgets achieve faster results because we incorporate not one, but two gizmos. In controlled tests conducted by XYZ, our widgets consistently out-performed the competition in speed, accuracy and endurance." 3.

"Why should I believe you?" Give reassurance. This is the time to give some details about you and your Company, provide information about your credentials, qualifications and experience in the field. Now you can also include brief testimonials from satisfied customers (provide as much information to identify the customers as they're willing to allow anonymous testimonials are almost worthless). 4. "What if I don't like it?" Eliminate the risk.

The final stumbling block is usually the fear of losing their money if they don't like the product or find its not what they expected, so offer your customers an iron-clad guarantee. It can be a full refund, a double /triple money back or whatever you feel you can afford. Always include a time factor - the longer the better - people like to know you'll be around for the long-haul. Incorporate these answers in your sales copy to help turn your readers into buyers. I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions..

Below are just a few of the other ways to use Flash on your website:* Flash "tour" - would your business benefit from an interactive "tour" of your facilities? Or a "tour" of how your product works?* Audio player - you can stream audio and offer user controls such as stop, fast forward, and track selection.* Games - Flash can be used to program interactive and educational games..

I'd advise that you discuss taxstrategies with your tax advisers. I'm offering the following from mybusiness experience. I work on the premise that you must pay taxes in thejurisdiction in which you earned the money. If you have a local business, don't incorporate in a tax haven state, likeNevada. The taxing state will still want their taxes on the money youearned.

Too many local businesses incorporate in such a way that the corporationpays taxes on the business income and the owners pay taxes on the proceedsfrom the corporation. If your corporate pretax profit was $100 inCalifornia, after taxes your company has $59.00. If you pay the $59.00 tothe owners, they must pay taxes and the after tax profit is $34.81. Toavoid paying 65% taxes, the owners should never have incorporated. Theyshould have asked their tax adviser about forming a LLC.

If you have a national business, incorporation in a tax haven State maymake sense. Compared to California, you'll save 8% on your company's income taxes. If the State tax savings justify tax haven incorporation, do it. If you have an international company, incorporation in a tax haven makessense. It won't save your company taxes on your U.

S. or Canadian businessincome. It will save you 40%-60% on your non-North American businessincome. This strategy is being used by almost every multinationalcorporation in the World. It's an inexpensive tactic that will save yourcompany hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If you need help creating a taxhaven corporation, please contact me. Whether you are a business owner or investor, you should consider a globalapproach to money and investment. The International Money School offers an excellent primer in sound global money management. If you would like toattend the next one-day course, please contact me.To contact the author: Visit the Beowulf Investments website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] Or, visit the Global Village Investment Club Website:[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/].

17.All of the images in the library have been produced by professional photographers, models and graphic artists. Over 500 images are included and offer a wide range of subject matter such as customers using traditional self-storage as well as climate controlled storage, people moving their household items, customers entering access codes, facility staff, security cameras, locks, boxes, gates, RVs, boats and many more. The product, which comes on CD, enables self-storage operators to incorporate professionally made images into their own existing advertisements and marketing materials or create new ads and marketing materials using an extensive template library included on the CD. Using the template library, a user can quickly create professional pre-designed marketing materials such areas as yellow page ads, newspaper ads, facility brochures, flyers, postcards, email ads, letterhead, business cards, in-store displays and more. An easy-to-use Windows software program ties everything together and comes with an easy to follow tutorial to get you up and running in minutes.

The software integrates seamlessly with many popular graphics programs such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop among others.William Jinks, President of the company states "Every self-storage operator has spent a small fortune purchasing yellow page ad space but yet has had few resources or expertise to make those expensive ads look really spectacular. Except for the largest operators, it's just too expensive to hire a photography crew, models and a graphic designer to create your advertisements and marketing materials in-house. Until now! We designed MarketingPowerCD to give every self-storage operator the ability to achieve Madison Avenue results at an extremely affordable cost. Whether it is for yellow pages, newspapers, brochures, flyers etc., everyone now has access to high-end industry specific self-storage content they can actually use to make all of their marketing materials look their absolute best. Nobody has to settle for a 'mom & pop' look and feel for their storage business anymore.".

If you set a payroll amount for yourself, then decide you want/need more money, you simply write yourself another check and call it an "owner distribution" or a "draw."MYTHThere's too much paperwork involved once you incorporate. I don't have the time.TRUTHThere are some additional forms you have to complete. There are some additional taxes you have to pay. HOWEVER... read this carefully...

for the three or four extra forms and the cost of the additional taxes, most businesses will still save when compared to counting every dollar you make toward personal income.MYTHThe only good reason to incorporate is for personal protection. The difference in taxes isn't that much.TRUTHWhile incorporating your business will help protect you from lawsuits and from having your personal property seized, there are more benefits than that. The tax savings can be quite significant.MYTHWith the attorney's fees, the CPA's fees, the additional income tax returns, and the forms I have to file quarterly, it's just not worth it. I won't really save any money.TRUTHEvery case is different; however, most small businesses will more than make up the $1500 - $2000 it costs to incorporate within the first six months to one year. Also, most small businesses will save about 50% on taxes after they incorporate.

(A qualified CPA will be able to look at your books and give you a more accurate figure.)MYTHI'll have to hold meetings and keep lots of records that I don't have time to keep.TRUTHNot if you register as a "closed" S-Corporation. This means you have waived the requirement to hold all those meetings and keep all those records.How Do You Get Specific Details?Contact a qualified CPA in your local area. He or she can give you detailed information on how much it will cost to set everything up, and - most importantly - how much you will save in taxes.Incorporation is not something to be afraid of. In fact, if you're one of the many who will save 50% off your taxes in the next year, it's something to go after with a vengeance!Copyright 2004 Diane Hughes.