I jumped into blogging for business a wee bit early.
My most creative energy and writing are needed with my primary business and my clients, so this blog has suffered neglect. I will maintain a web presence, in 140 characters or less, via Twitter.
The name is still EconGrrl, and the topic still good common sense economics & business sense for everyone. Follow me, or just check in from time to time, I’d love to hear from you.
Yours,
EconGrrl
Usually I don’t directly promote my business on this blog, but I do promote taking care of your details so you can get to the good stuff in your day, so here is the letter I sent to my clients today:
Greetings friends & clients!
How’s business? Have you gotten your tax information together yet for 2008?
If you paid any contract labor, helpers, or business coaches at least $600 in 2008, or lawyers any money at all, you have a deadline next Friday! You need to send out 1099s to all people who worked for you so they have the tools to get their taxes together in a timely way.
The IRS lets you wait another month to send them their copy, but you may be fined if they find out that you missed the Jan 31st deadline for notifying your helpers. If you have already taken care of your 1099s, give yourself a pat on the back! If not there is still time.
In fact, I have just installed a software package to make it simple and quick to print out official and professional 1099s and W-2s. I needed to get this to serve another client, but I am happy to take an hour or so to help your business as well. Call or email me to schedule a convenient time to get this detail taken care of.
The first three entrepreneurs to take me up on this offer get a 50% discount (one business per person for the discount, you know who you are) for the 1099 service.
I hope you are having a beautiful and prosperous day, doing work you love!
I got to work with my client, New Living, at the Greater Houston Building Council Expo this weekend.
It was refreshing to talk to so many people who had a clean vision of what they wanted and what they were willing to pay for it. That is a lesson all empowered persons in the marketplace can carry forward.
Your time is valuable. If you know what you are looking for it don’t take long to realize when that is not what you are looking at. Wonderful, but not for me, moving on. Going through the Expo this way, lots of people were able to cruise the thousands of square feet quickly, and only get details that are useful.
“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post.”
When I was in 2nd grade, I was about lose my last few baby teeth. No more easy money! With those dire prospects I whipped out my #2 pencil and wrote the Tooth Fairy. I explained to her that money wasn’t worth as much now as it was 3 years earlier when I began supplying her with baby teeth. I also explained how I have fewer teeth to sell, so each one is more precious than the early teeth.
That night the Tooth Fairy gave me a 100% raise. Thus began EconGrrl.
My web presence has been a long time coming, but here we are. Welcome! I need to keep this first post so that next May we’ll know when to throw the party.
See you in the blogosphere!