The time of year determines much of what you do in your home life. If you have not made the same connections to your business life you're missing a chance to fill that checkbook by the seasons.
Your website is like a gathering basket for your garden. If you keep your basket close by the door when harvest time comes, you're always ready to hop out that door for fresh tomatoes, zucchini and bell peppers.
If you keep your stats checked on a regular basis you know just where you stand in the whole scheme of things and your ROI can show high or low depending on the seasonal changes of your audience.
I'm a flower picker in the spring when emerging bulbs bring brightness and wonderfully fresh smells to my home. I water and weed during the hot summer months and come late summer and fall, we all enjoy the harvest of our summer labors. Winter brings joyous holidays that we all share.
Although the seasons are filled with holidays, it's the work and play ethic that exists year round that brings ROI from a website. Of the prepare, plant, nurture and harvest cycles of the year, so goes your business preparations for income from any online endeavor.
1 - Prepare - research keywords, key phrases and complete market studies.
2 - Plant - Get your website up and running along with a blog for continuing input and updates.
3 - Nurture - Market your website and blog with social media and incoming linking strategies.
4 - Harvest - If you laid the ground out correctly, you have the traffic and income that connects the calendar to a growing checkbook balance!
As it takes several seasons to see your garden grow so goes the business cycle. Always plan on it taking double (or more in some cases) the time you expect it to and finding more weeds than tomatoes at some junctures.
Have a busy and fruitful year. Consider Buddy Web Design to be your garden helper when you are ready to plant a website and watch it grow your checkbook balance.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
The FairTax - One Detail RE: Social Security
Hey Folks.
I used to be outwardly very political. These days, I am mostly inwardly very political. Yes, we own guns at our house, unfortunately most everyone does. Some of those folks I wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, in a freeway traffic jam or during a heated political discussion. Thus, my OH-pinions are kept mostly for family and sometimes not even then.
There are a few things though that should be brought to light and discussed. Shared, sent on and pointed out until everyone is aware that we, as Americans, have options.
Mike Huckabee says he wants to be the guy who hangs this sign: "Out of Business" on the door of the IRS. That day could make April 15 become a national holiday of real celebration (a second Independence day!) instead of the darkest day of the year.
Perhaps it would also help some officials who seem to have personal tax problems not have to up and quit their jobs. OH, Hah! We might be better off without those folks anyhowsen, eh? We pay their salaries (with tax dollars) and they cannot manage to pay their "fair share." Actually, "fair share" is a tad off center. "Fair share" when it comes to taxes is a flat out lie. No one pays a fair share with the scales our law makers have manipulated since before WWII (the BIG one). I digress.
One of the first questions that came to mind when I first read the first book on the Fair Tax was "what about social security?" Boy oh Boy, I am so close to collecting (only about six years to go, Yippee!) I was worried that the system was going to fail before I could collect my (well deserved, as everyone does) own money that could have been drawing interest for me for uh, all my adult life. Then, if we are lucky enough to have the fairtax enacted, what would happen then? Will I still be able to retire and receive the money I have put in forever?
Not to worry, some really smart people have figured that out too. Whew! Was I glad to know that these guys thought of everything! Geeze-louise, that was a scary few moments. Of course, all I had to do was go to the website and search for social security. I got a list of 'pdf' files and one of those explains it. At least enough for me to be satisfied that those thinking folks did not forget the oldies and those of us getting there fast.
Truth be known, I've read all there is in print (I may have missed an article here or there, so sue me) about the fair tax. I have since found the guy who might be able to pull it off for us folks who have found something political to be in love with (the fairtax, not the guy, he's married, another sigh).
And of course that guy is Mike Huckabee (FOR PRESIDENT, next time) We'll have to wait for at least four more years. But that's not a bad thing, it's just four more years we have to circle the wagons folks! So YeeHaH, let's get rippin' and hooten' 'n' hollerin' for the FAIRTAX and Mike Huckabee.
NOTE: I am not being paid to blog, write, or work for or promote either the fairtax or Mr. Huckabee, I just think "It's the Right Thing To Do!"
Suggested Reading:
Do the Right Thing
by Mike Huckabee
(on sale at Amazon for about $12.00)
The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
(paperback on sale at Amazon for about $6.00)
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
(on sale at Amazon for about $12.00)
Note Too: I don't work for Amazon either. :D
God Bless and don't let the wagon hinges snag your skirt tail!
EB ;)
I used to be outwardly very political. These days, I am mostly inwardly very political. Yes, we own guns at our house, unfortunately most everyone does. Some of those folks I wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, in a freeway traffic jam or during a heated political discussion. Thus, my OH-pinions are kept mostly for family and sometimes not even then.
There are a few things though that should be brought to light and discussed. Shared, sent on and pointed out until everyone is aware that we, as Americans, have options.
Mike Huckabee says he wants to be the guy who hangs this sign: "Out of Business" on the door of the IRS. That day could make April 15 become a national holiday of real celebration (a second Independence day!) instead of the darkest day of the year.
Perhaps it would also help some officials who seem to have personal tax problems not have to up and quit their jobs. OH, Hah! We might be better off without those folks anyhowsen, eh? We pay their salaries (with tax dollars) and they cannot manage to pay their "fair share." Actually, "fair share" is a tad off center. "Fair share" when it comes to taxes is a flat out lie. No one pays a fair share with the scales our law makers have manipulated since before WWII (the BIG one). I digress.
One of the first questions that came to mind when I first read the first book on the Fair Tax was "what about social security?" Boy oh Boy, I am so close to collecting (only about six years to go, Yippee!) I was worried that the system was going to fail before I could collect my (well deserved, as everyone does) own money that could have been drawing interest for me for uh, all my adult life. Then, if we are lucky enough to have the fairtax enacted, what would happen then? Will I still be able to retire and receive the money I have put in forever?
Not to worry, some really smart people have figured that out too. Whew! Was I glad to know that these guys thought of everything! Geeze-louise, that was a scary few moments. Of course, all I had to do was go to the website and search for social security. I got a list of 'pdf' files and one of those explains it. At least enough for me to be satisfied that those thinking folks did not forget the oldies and those of us getting there fast.
Truth be known, I've read all there is in print (I may have missed an article here or there, so sue me) about the fair tax. I have since found the guy who might be able to pull it off for us folks who have found something political to be in love with (the fairtax, not the guy, he's married, another sigh).
And of course that guy is Mike Huckabee (FOR PRESIDENT, next time) We'll have to wait for at least four more years. But that's not a bad thing, it's just four more years we have to circle the wagons folks! So YeeHaH, let's get rippin' and hooten' 'n' hollerin' for the FAIRTAX and Mike Huckabee.
NOTE: I am not being paid to blog, write, or work for or promote either the fairtax or Mr. Huckabee, I just think "It's the Right Thing To Do!"
Suggested Reading:
Do the Right Thing
by Mike Huckabee
(on sale at Amazon for about $12.00)
The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
(paperback on sale at Amazon for about $6.00)
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
by Neal Boortz and John Linder
(on sale at Amazon for about $12.00)
Note Too: I don't work for Amazon either. :D
God Bless and don't let the wagon hinges snag your skirt tail!
EB ;)
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