George Constanza was a loser. Hilarious and lovable, true. But a bum.
In one episode he’s sitting with Jerry after recently losing his job. They’re talking about what George might want to do and what he’s good at. It goes something like this:
Jerry: “So what do you like? What are your hobbies?”
George: “I like baseball.”
Jerry: “OK, and what could you do in baseball?”
George: “I could manage a team.”
At least George got the “think big” part of being successful. Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to dream in order to succeed. Of course there’s dreaming and there’s delusion…
After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isn’t right for us or our community. It’s regrettable that we should part ways as I still feel that Dan and Ted are stand up guys breaking new ground, but in the end, the deal was just not right for them or us.
I wrote about the deal between PayPerPost and Performancing when it came out because I’m interested in both companies and in particular wanted to see what PayPerPost would do with the acquisitions, and what the response would be from the blogosphere.
Is it possible that blogger reaction was negative or cool enough to scuttle the deal?
I’m not likely to find out any time soon, but nevertheless this is an interesting development…
Josh Hinds over at Business Networking Advice invited me to answer a few questions about business networking. I was happy to oblige, and I hope you’ll check out my quick interview with him.
His first question was, “How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?”
I mulled this over for a few days. The way I’ve been currently thinking, and the way blogging has opened up so many doors, I didn’t want to answer narrowly.
And then I started thinking about tiny boxes. Josh’s question said, “business networking” but all I could think about in that context was getting into a room and trying to generate leads. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s clear there’s so much more to networking than that.
This is a sponsored post, through the ReviewMe service. I accepted this opportunity for a couple of reasons. For starters I’m intrigued by why Nevada Corporation would pick me to write a review. Secondly, I’m learning more about the world of blog-for-pay. Whether you agree with the concept or not, it’s interesting and worth reporting back to the community on a whole.
Nevada Corporation is an information site on how to structure your business. It is an important issue. When starting a new business you should be aware of the corporate structure options that exist.
Nevada Corporation’s site goes through the list thoroughly:
There’s also some corporate tax saving ideas that you may find interesting. Although employing your children (apparently you can employ kids starting at the age of 7!) sounds a bit questionable to me.
The best part about Nevada Corporation’s website is this bit:
In today’s litigious society, business owners are a prime target for a lawsuit.
The United States has:
5% of the world’s population
74% of the world’s lawyers
94% of the world’s lawsuits
Something is keeping all those lawyers busy right?
When starting a new company you need to look at the available options for your corporate structure.
You might choose to do a sole-proprietorship (to keep things easy) or you might go further along and incorporate as an Inc. or LLC.
And if you’re looking for some decent information (general information as well as information specific to incorporating in Nevada) then check out Corporation Nevada.
Having said that, I need to point out some fairly significant problems with the Corporation Nevada site:
The information is de-valued by the poor design and liberal use of Google AdSense. Instead of the site looking extremely professional it gives off a questionable appearance.
Some pages have Google AdSense overlapping the text, or background colors washing out text. This goes beyond “bad design” into the realm of broken.
There are numerous broken links which is inexcusable.
There aren’t many reference points for knowing whether the content is regularly updated. Tax and corporation laws do change on occasion and it’s important to know what’s changed before you take any information as wholly accurate. Some pages have a footer that shows 2004 as the date, others show 2006.
If you click on Feedback you’ll get to a page that seems totally out of place. It looks like an “About Page” for the company that runs the Corporation Nevada site. They claim to be a “top search engine marketer specializing in local search for the San Francisco and Seattle markets.” They’ve also got a few web properties for Reno and Nevada.
The site is smart enough to include a disclaimer at the end; that their site does not provide legal or accounting advice. I’d take that strongly into advisement when checking out Corporation Nevada.
And of course, you can find plenty of information about incorporating and corporate structures on the Web, which I would encourage you to do.
Paul O’Flaherty recently tagged me to participate in the super villain meme floating around the Web. Maybe it’s not a meme, just something fun to try. So I gave it a go, and here are my results:
So Paul and I are both Apocalypse, although after that the results are quite different. I was almost Dr. Doom, and Magneto wasn’t far behind. I’m glad I wasn’t Mr. Freeze (lame!) and Catwoman would have been awkward, so I’ll take Apocalypse and make a break for it.
