PayPal limits you to one business account and one personal account. This can cause real problems since it is difficult to track different businesses if they all flow through one account. It can also cause customer satisfaction problems since the name of the PayPal account may have no obvious relationship to Web site that sent [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After screwing around with Wordpress and Joomla and then trying to adapt existing Web pages with Kompozer, I finally threw in the towel and decided that I was going to have to learn how to code Web pages. I am all for using eLance for projects, but you can quickly run through lots of funds [...]
One thing about trying to make money on the Internet, it is very easy to run up huge tabs on the software that you need just to get started. Every time I find myself in need of some software, my first step is to Google the mainstream application along with “open source.” It is amazing, [...]