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Incorporate Online, Become Incorporated, LLC Formation | MyNewCompany.com

MyNewCompany handles all the legal stuff for forming a new company. From the Website

MyNewCompany.com, Inc. was founded in 2001 with one simple mission: to make starting a business as simple, fast and inexpensive as possible. Since then we’ve formed thousands of companies for our clients and have grown into one of America’s largest providers of incorporation and LLC formation services.

This looks to be a great resource and the process is painless and transparent. The thing I like the most is all the legal questions are answered and fully documented on the options available when starting a new business.

If any of you have used this service, let me know how it went.

I have just completed my taxes (Nothing like waiting until the last minute) and I found myself wishing I had some sort of budget program. I am intimidated by most of them because I do not want to become a small business accountant just to manage my finances.

I took a look around the net and found the following programs. Most of these are free and seem to fit the bill as to what I need. Although, I am leaning towards Quicken due to the popularity and support.

Let me know your experience and also if you have a favorite that I missed.

Free
Money Manager Ex (Windows and Linux)
MS Office templates (MS Office Suite or Open Office)
GnuCash (Linux and Mac OSX)

Pear Budget (all platforms)
Buddi (all)
Yodlee (online)
Wesabe (online)

Pay
Quicken ($30, PC)
MS Money ($49.99, PC)
Myvelopes ($7.90/month, online)
Moneydance ($29.99, all platforms)

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Manage Your Personal Data Flow

This is a great article on how to handle information overload. There are several tips on getting information when you need and not before. I especially like the tip to send yourself and e-mail and schedule it to arrive about 10 minutes before you meet them.

Pretty good stuff

Networking has gotten such a bad rap. However, it is a powerful way to get business done. Careers are made on the ability to network. Even if you hate doing it, you need to learn how to do it in order to build your business.

Good news, its not that bad. Here are five reasons to start

Ship Furniture, Ship Cars, Freight Shipping & Household Moving – uShip

Here is an interesting shipping site. Post your shipping needs and several companies will bid on the job. This should get you the best shipping price. This can be useful for major items such s furniture , autos and such.

Anyone used this service ? Let me know your experience

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: random thoughts on being an entrepreneur

Some very interesting thoughts on being and entrepreneur. My favorites are 11 and 18.

Let me know some of your faviorites

Tip For Saving When Paying Taxes - Seeking Alpha

Thinking paying your taxes with a credit card? I would not advise it and tis article explains why.

OReilly Radar > Entrepreneurial Proverbs

Thinking of going out on your own? here is a list of Proverbs that will help get your mind in the right place.

Enjoy

Business Intelligence Lowdown: How to Be a Manager that Your Employees Respect: 73 Surefire Tips

There are plenty of lists that describe how to be an in-effective boss. Here is one that has 73 tips to be a great manager.

Most of these seem to be common sense but how often do we really put in practice ?

ClearCheckbook.com - Totally Free Online Checkbook Register and Balancing

Programs such as MS Money and Quicken often have many features that are only used by professional money managers. For the rest of use there is ClearCheckBook.

Oh, did I mention that is FREE ?

From the Site

A lot of people ask us what separates ClearCheckbook from other websites or software that are supposed to help you manage your money. Microsoft Money and Quicken are so packed full of useless features that most people get so frustrated they don’t even use it. Excel is good for keeping track of some withdrawals and deposits, but as soon as you start adding categories or multiple accounts, it all breaks down. Other websites like Mvelopes.com charge you outrageous amounts of money so you can manage your finances. Paper checkbook registers require you to do a lot of math just to try and keep things balanced.

I have been looking at this and it seem promising. The best feature is the “CheckBot”. Send in your expenses over the cell phone while on the road. CheckBot uses SMS and AIM. Pretty Cool !

The only concern I have is the security of my accounts and other information. I will be looking more into the security aspects and let you know.

To your success