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Save on Income tax

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:43:25 GMT

Reduce personal taxes through home business

There are many advantages to owning your home business. Some are purely emotional, and some are based on sound business planning. The potential tax savings related to owning and operating a small home business are often overlooked or simply glossed over. This probably due to the fact that taxes are complicated, that's why they are all kinds of accountants focusing on the wide variety of tax specialities.

There is one company, Wall and Associates, that provides a service to small home business owners in Canada and the USA. The "Easy as ABC" website features a free tax savings calculator that uses their estimated numbers for possible deductions once you plug in your expected income. The system also allows you to change the numbers as you like. As I said the system is free with no strings attached. It's definitely worth checking out because it has tax information for small businesses in both Canada and the USA.

It's a good website to refer prospects to since it is a third party independant accounting company that specializes in the home business tax field. Recommend by Immunotec.

Colm Maher

colm@wellnessopportunity.org

Skype "colmbonne"

MLM Websites Lost on Internet

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:09:23 GMT

If you are a member of a network marketing company that boasts of having great distributor websites that will generate business for you, think again about their effectiveness. These websites may well bring you business if you personally refer a lot of people to your exact website address but only if your customers spell everything just right. If your customer forgets this address and just types in the name of your host company and your name too--no dice-- your customer may get the company but not you. You could lose him or her right there.

These "distributor websites" are called replicated websites because all distributors have the exact same website except for very minor differences. There's usually not much space for you to get your personalty across or differentiate yourself from others. It's really just like a glorified, very detailed brochure which you hand to people. That means you have to personally hand out this brochure to every single prospect. Sounds just like conventional MLM marketing wrapped up in something of a disguise called the internet. The replicated website idea has it backwards: on the internet, people find you ; if they can't find you, you might as well not exist.

The internet is all about people finding people with solutions for their problems. The new consumer finds you, you don't necessarily find them . The new consumer is being proactive by looking for a new product, new ideas, or perhaps new business concepts. The old consumer watches TV and is told what to buy. Replicated websites are for the old style consumer and the old style salesperson.

In order to be an active player on the internet, you have to learn the new rules. You have to become internet savvy. If you want people to find you on the internet, you will have to bone up on your internet skills. If you plan on being successful in mlm or any small business, the internet needs to be mastered. It's not going away anytime soon so the skills you acquire will always be useful. In such a radically changing environment, the emphasis will always be on learning new skills.

New Immunotec Distributor Website

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:32:33 GMT

NewWebsite Immunotec Distributor

I launched a new website today http://www.immunotecdistributor.com . As an Immunotec distributor, you have your own independant but replicated website that has tone of information on it except nobody can find it while searching google. None of the Immunotec websites for distributors show up. So I created my own website that will show up. I also have a Veretekk system to support the marketing of this website http://immunotecdistributor.veretekk.com I am sure that within a month my new website will be at the top of the hits list at Google for the keywords immunotec distributor. I also launched a new website last week helping other networkers to the same thing http://www.homebusinessseo.com It is already in the top ten for the keywords chosen. It is supported by Veretekk http://homebusinessseo.veretekk.com

Mastercard Promotes Small Business

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:40:56 GMT

Mastercard has termed owning your own small business "priceless". No suits, no cubicles, no corporate ladder to climb. Really. I just find it a little amusing that this giant worldwide corporation is promoting small business ownership.I know, they just want to make more money but they have tons of ways of doing that without promoting small business ownership as an alternative to the corporate ladder to success. Could it be that small business ownership has finally joined the mainstream? Could it be that we are in for massive growth in this area?

I wonder what the corporate ladder climbers think of this ad? Maybe on days that the traffic to work is horrendous, when the boss treats them like dirt, when they don't get the raise or promotion they were expecting, or maybe when they get laid off, they might think of this add and wonder . " Owning your own small business: priceless".

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Today I launched a New Website

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:15:44 GMT

p>Today I submiited a new website to Google called Home Business SEO http://www.homebusinessseo.com . It basically chronicals my journey from knowing absolutely nothing to almost knowing absolutely nothing about websites and search engine optimization. It's been interesting and I have certainly learned a lot and have much to learn but they say that's what keeps you young and alive. For the yet uninitiated, it could prove to be a very useful website to discover not because of me but because of the other people at websites which I have linked to that have helped me understand just enough to keep moving forward. Tomorrow, I will start working towards making this website #1 on Google by employing the powers of Veretekk. http://homebusinessseo.veretekk.com

The Internet Fertile Ground for the Gullible

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:57:45 GMT

There are many companies out there on the Internet that promote health products that don't actually work but if you pay some doctors enough, he or she will say something that makes the product sounds like it could work for some people some of the time. Doctors can be very compelling even when they are talking about something they basically know nothing about. In some situations, actors are often paid to act as doctors and do a great job most of the time. Executives from "natural health" companies know the rules which have been pretty loose up until now. It's almost unthinkable what some companies have done to promote worthless products that pray on the hopes and fears of sick people or people who are trying to avoid sickness.

So the golden rule is the old axiom "buyer beware". Check out the company as much as you can. Check the research out by reading it yourself. This can be complex but you will get the gist of it. At least, you should have a idea on whether the research is real or sort of made up, or whether the truth has been stretched a little. Personal testimonies, while inspiring, have to be discounted due to their personal, subjective nature. They also lend themselves to hype. People who are trying to sell something sometimes tell lies. I know that's hard to believe---they were so nice. That's why we think so highly of used car salesmen and the like. Scientific research and peer reviewed published works are by far the best source information to look for in evaluating a product and a company. If the claims are made with no back up documentation, it's kind of like buying a "terrific" used car without seeing the service records.

Evaluating a product and a company are really important in maintaining your state of health and wellness but it's doubly important if you want to build a successful wellness home business. Who wants to see your business go to pot after the real facts immerge about the fraudulent nature of the claims made about a product? If you want to waste a lot of time, lose money and lose credibility that's an excellent route to take. If not, the due diligence you undertake before you really start promoting a product line is time extremely well spent. I guess that's why I'm always a little leary about "fast start" bonuses and the like. The other very famous phrase is "when the dream is big enough, the facts don't count" Really. It's a message I read as "don't take the time to really check this out, you might find the out the truth". So do your due diligence and make your decision. Once you've done this properly, go for the gold.

Just a little warning: Once you are satisfied don't be a sucker to your own negative thoughts that mascarade as "facts" manufactured by you to look highly reasonable. They are nothing but doubts thrown your way to block your progress. It's your own mind setting out to destroy your chances of success.

Business Credibility

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:45:55 GMT

Business Crediblity: When you find new leads, the key for them will probably be the crediblility of the opportunity. Why should they join you? It's a real

good question to have good answers for." A little hype" is fine and is expected and accepted in any sales oriented situation, but "all hype" is not.

Your opportunity has to have real meat on the bones to make it attractive to serious business people.

Back in the old days of Amway, you only had to see if your white shirts were whiter and that your

LOC actually cleaned what it was supposed to clean to know that your products worked. Enrich International,

used to sell a fibre and senna combination that left no doubt that they worked for most people.

Public meeting extolling the virtues of having a good bowel movement were good for business.

(what a way to make a living) Most of the time, it's good to sell and promote products

where the benefits are easily proven by personal observation. However, there are many products, especially,

nutritional products where the efficacy of the product is much more difficult to prove especially in the short term.

Most of these nutritional type products are accompanied by personal testimonies that are heavily discounted in medical circles.

I have been in many different mlm's and all stated that their products were the best on the market. "On the cutting edge"

is a common phrase. So I started wondering, "how do you know they are the best products?". What research has been done?

Where is the evidence? (Usually no where or highly questionable). Most of these type claims come from the marketing department,

not the research department. (What research department?) . It's unfortunate that many of the natural product/vitamin

industry products areborn in the business office, and formulated by the accounting department and sold to us a

"natural wonders". Increased regulation in both Canada and the USA should rid of this kind of "rip off" business practises.

The question remains, how do you know the products actually work. If they work self evidently, great! If they do not, do your

due diligence about the research that went into the formulation and the subsequent clinical studies to prove the products work.

Why waste money on products that don't work when you buy products that do work. The most expensive pair of shoes you

can buy are those you never wear. The most expensive vitamin or food concoction that doesn't benefit you in any way is

the most expensive health product you will ever buy. Finally and most important: do you want to recommend a product

to a friend or customer that does not work? That's why you should always say: "I don't know if it going to work for you or not,

but what if it does?" Doctors' will give you a prescription and say "try this" (He or she's not sure it's going to work for you either).

'Hype" is often used in network marketing companies to get the troops excited so they can go out and recruit more people.

If the "hype" isn't supported by facts, you can end up featured on Market Place on the CBC TV network or some other

USA investigative TV unit. That's not good for business or your health so its best to check the products and the people

before you invest your time, money and energy in a bogus business relationship.

Veretekk Works

Mon, 26 May 2008 13:03:39 GMT

This is the first post to this particular blog and probably the most significant.

As they say, the proof is in the pudding. Every one want to know if something works,

or , more, particularly, is it going to work fro me. That's a good question. If you're

like me, you will know that there's a lot of hype out there as it relates to web

optimization, lead generation and network marketing. I started again in Veretekk in

February 08 but I also had a brief short stint last June/July 07. I got out because

I just didn't understand or know how to use the system. In Feb 08, I decided to give

it another shot. Does it work? Google "wellness business" "wellness business leads".

Most of the reason why my website http://www.wellnessbusinessleads.com is so high is

because of Veretekk. More to come. Colm Maher 1 905 372 9111