Sorry to crash your party, but as we bring in the New Year,
it’s also time to bring in a New Tax Season.
As a small business owner or self-employed person,
one of the easiest ways to keep Uncle Sam off your back
and out of your life is to file your forms, payments and
other paperwork on time.

Over the next four months there are several key dates
that you dare not forget! Here they are — all in one place,
along with links to the IRS website PDF file for that
particular form, where appropriate.

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A framework is a way of thinking, a point-of-view, a perspective on something. Here are the 15 frameworks of the successfully self-employed professional. You’ll find some of these to be radical and foreign. Don’t let that stop you! Try them on; see what you learn from them.

1. Marketing is more important than mastery.

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Solar energy is all around us, but most people don’t notice it. For instance, the power source for many emergency phones on freeways is powered by it. This brings us the subject of solar post lights.

Solar Power for Post Lighting

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The first question an entrepreneur should ask himself when contemplating whether to extend his product range is “why would I do that?”

A good share of the entrepreneurs I know have a tendency to extend their product range in a very curious, oportunistic way. Whenever the market has more opportunities than suppliers, I see entrepreneurs deciding “Let’s do this, too. We can do this, why not doing it?”

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Starting a Home Wood Working Business is just the thing for those who love working with wood as a hobby. The quality and design of hand crafted wood is prized the world over. Furniture, toys, boxes and the like are used everyday. There is a definite market for Woodworking Business Opportunities.

Many products of woodworking are marketable today. Everything from shipping crates to armoires are made from wood products. There is also an emerging market for hand made wooden toys. If you posses skill and talent, you can make money in the wood working business opportunities field.

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There’s a great line in Alice in Wonderland when the Queen says, “Sometimes I think of 6 impossible things before breakfast.” I think you’ll agree that this has to be creativity at its best! As a small business owner this is an ideal you really need to strive for … but how on earth can you open up your mind to get to the point where ideas just spill out?

Small business owners are expected to be creative and inventive, otherwise how could they run their own firm? If you have a sneaky feeling that creativity is not one of your strong points what can you do to stimulate your brain and get it kicked-started?

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