Archive for October, 2008

Using a “Trade”, “DBA” or “Fictitious” Business Name

There are times when you wish that the name of your business was different.  You might have a very successful blog that you are running under an entity called My Killer Blog LLC.  The problem will come when you decide to start selling pet rocks with another Web site.  If someone sees “My Killer Blog [...]

Review of “ProBlogger” by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett

Darren Rowse is the man behind ProBlogger.net and the b5media blog network, so he has a thing or two to tell you about how to make money by blogging.  Chris Garrett was a founding blogger for Performancing.com and currently writes chrisg.com.
The Good:

The book is a great overview of most of the things that you will [...]

OpenOffice Open Source Alternative to MS Office

I am working on a project that involves breaking down a list of 600 or so families into invitation lists for 20 or so parties.  The families are spread out around our metro area, and the idea is that we will have the parties in different places and invite families to the party that is [...]

Fix For Worpress 2.6 RSS Feeds Not Including Full Text

My posts were only being fed in summary form despite having Wordpress set to display the full text.  It turns out that you need to be using RSS version 2 in order for that feature to work correctly.  For Wordpress 2.6, the correct URL for RSS version 2 is “example.com/feed/.”  This is what you need [...]

Incorporating Your Business or Forming a Limited Liability Company

Google “Incorporate” or “LLC” and you will come up with dozens of services that offer to do the work for fees that range from relatively modest to wildly expensive.  Paying a lawyer will usually run a couple hundred bucks.  Beyond the expense, I always wonder what sort of quality you get from these guys.  The [...]